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The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Miss Taylor in
'Hur11Oresque'

The critic of the Gdsettc-ReUiet0 o.
Atlantic City. whose "Humorcsdue'
opened recently. had this to say regard.
ing Laurette Taylor:
1t is quite impossible to imagine her
i'm the part until after you have seen
her. and then it~seems as natural to hel
as anything else she has done. She has
the real gift of adapting herself to
tho character. rather than exploiting
her personality through the medium
of the roles she porTays. And that
after all is what we mean when we
speak of acting. In these days of
types such versatility as Miss Tay-
lor displays is rare indeed.
"Humoresque', Is the sort of play
that some people object to as "talky.'
1t is essentially characters ana
offers little trouble TO the outliner OF
plot.
The play is excellently cast with an
attention to detail that suggests the
authors voice in the choice of players.
Miss Taylor becomes completely for
the moment the adoring little Jewish
mother who lives In and for her
wonder child" and Lutha Adler as
the son. though a little pompous at
first. warmed up to his part and did
splendidly the temperamental cli-
MAKES OF his concert and his leave
taking. Sidney Carlyle was a compell-
ing figure from the rising of the cur
tain until the falling-and yet he said
not more than dozen words. AS the
tragic man-child, whose reflexes we're
Wrong. who laughed when he should
have cried. and whose mind never
grew with his body, he moved SILENT
ly and tragically through the play.
The first act was as delightful as
mother with a swarm of squabblinA
joyous. irresponsible children coulA
make il. The second act dragged 4
little. 1t Is astounding how cold the
burning patriotism OF an eager young
soldier can leave the American au-
diepce OF to-day. and how far removed
we seem from the anxieties of so re-
cent a war.
"Humoresque" is pitched, in the
proper key for success-and in the
proper dialect.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Technic for Those Who Care

extraordinary adjectves. Inundated but
not submerged Even in his own life
time the tide turned. To-day he Is
almost respectable enough to be
admitted to the Hall of Fame. In the
theater he has become a classic.
And that /, think, is the point.
Classic connotes dead | do not mean
to say that Ibsenism is dead. i merely
suggest that IL is moribund. 1t has lost
its vitality. it's impetus. There may be
great realistic plays written next year
or fifty years hence. but they will be
applications of a formula, not spon.
tdneous creations. When ] saw Loyal.
ties / could not help feeling that the
very perfection of its technic stamped
1t as belonging to the past.
The reason for the decaience of 1bsen-
ism is not far to seek Ibs~n was a
product of the political and philosophic
dogmas of his time. The social and in
tellectual upheaval which was created
by the industrial revolution and the
PRONUNCIATION of the evolutionary theory
was the basis of Ibsens work. He was
the prophet of a world rudey awakened
to external reality.
But we have gone beyond that. Ber-
nard Shaw boasts somewhere that he Is
almost unique in possessing normal
vision and that therefore he sees life
as 1t is. But even the best pair of
eyes cannot see all OF life. The micro
scope and the telescope have taught us
that. The new psychology has shown
us hithertofore- unsupported springs of
human action and the war tagged us
into realization of devastating and
imponderable social forces. Here Is q
new and fertile field of dramatic mate
rial. The dramatist' of to-day--or at
any rate of to-fnorrow-must build not
upon Darwin and Karl Marx but upon
Freud, J. p. Morgan and Billy Sunday.
He must escape the limitations OF objec :
tive externalism and seek 70 capture
the dynamic forces that lie behind it.
Is this all theory? l offer in evidence
Eugene O'Neill. l find in both "The
Hairy Ape" and The Emperor Jones"
striving for new form of express
sion. And years ago Theodore Dresser
IN his plays of the Natural and the
Supernatural gave us dazzling
glimpse of a new theater. New plays
are coming out fof Europe. There is
From Morn to Midnight" for example
so brilliant a sky rocket that we al
most forgive the thud of the stick. And
1.-The World We Live In,' play with
out plot situations or characters, and
yet an amazing and thrilling dramatiza-
ton Of society. Who can doubt that
there will be others to follow?
But as / began by saying, play
wright should stick to his job and not
indulge in theories about the theater.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
FROM BROADWAY COME NEW YARNS FOR THE NEW YEAR
The Elusive Bootleggers

Greenwich Village. which made sounds
characteristic of the village. The first
night it palpitated the singer got out
of tune with it. grew angry and after
ward threatened to quit. One OF the
company who was an admirer of the
miss declared that if she left he would
do likewise-but the play managed to
fill out it's booking nevertheless.
This play, by the way, is said ito
have had it's origin in an actual story,
similar to the poisoning feud in the
play. 1t was told to Charles Cape
hart. advertising agent. who became
so impressed with 1t as an aspect OF
bootlegging that he commissioned
Page to write a play around it for an
advance royalty of $1,000. The piece
seems to have stimulated other plays
of the same color Jay Barnes. who
did the early publicity for the show,
has just submitted to a rival advertis-
ing agency, the j. p. Muller Com
pany, a play which he wrote with a
Philadelphia newspaper man named
williams. and which is intended to
make history with the title of "The
Speak Easy" ~
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ics' reviews. We think the world
would be a happier place and that there
would be fewer disagreements for. IL
critics were supplanted. audiences would
be the only people left who might dis
agree with us.
realize that I am taking up too
much space with my preamble but
M this is the first critical review of "a
play ! have ever written. u seems help
ful to realize a little natural embarrass-
ment and hesitation by leading UP to my
actual estimate of Rose Briar' in a
spacious and dignified manner.
It seems to me that one should begin
the estimate by saying. "rhe faults of
the play are obvious" but / had an ex-
perience once that warns me off. A
very capable critic began a review like
that and ! wrote to him. for the play
was mine
I said that knew there were great
faults I'm the piay--so did the manager
and five experts we had employed 20
help US find the faults-but none of us
could discover what they were. though
we knew they existed. At last had come
a ray Of light here was a man TO whom
the eyasive faults were obvious. For
heavens sake would he please write and
tell us what they were 50 that we could
remedy them?
His reply was disappointing. lie said
he had used the wrong word. For "ob-
vious" he should have used the word
obscure" This makes me afraid TO be-
gin my critical estimate In traditional
manner. Also there are reasons why II
would not be well TO begin u IN an ef-
fuslvely original manner Yet Il must
be begun. of course, and by the same
token It must be developed and con-
cluded.
Perhaps certain amount Of caution
was not misplaced. Therefore:
The curtain at the Ford's Theater rose
at about $3.50 last night in It's accus-
toned manner and the lovely Miss Billie
Burke and her most excellent company
presented the comedy OF Rose Briar.''
II was over at about IL.
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Tales of the
TWo-a-Day
Vaudeville

PALACE - Roszika and Yancsi
Dolly. Vivienne Segal and Harry
Carroll, Mabel Ford.
CENTRAL--"Main Street Follies,"
with Morris and Campbell; Fred
Ardath, La Toilette.
BROADWAY Moran and Mack.
Margie Coates. the photoplay
Kick In."
RIVERSIDE,-V Vincent Lopez and
his Hotel Pennsylvania Orches-
ira. Ruth Roye.
EIGHTY-FIRST STREET - Jack
Norworth. Constance Talmadge
in the photoplay East Is West"
COLONIAL-Vera Gordon, Paul
Specht and his Monte Carlo Or
chestra.
LOEW'S STATE--Phil Baker. Lon
CLANCY in the photoplay
Shadows"
PROCTOR'S FIFTH AVENUE -
Ben Welch. Borden and Dwyer.
PROCTOR's TWENT Y.THIRD
STREET-James Thornton, Dot
tie Clair's Minstrels.
PROCTOR'S FIFTY r IG GHTH
STREET--Sarah Padden, Tay-
lor, Howard and Them.
PROCTOR'S 125TH STREET -
Migpon, Lane and Freeman.
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Continued from Preceding Page.
You're all so keen to tell the truth that
you produce lie--an illusion, " mistake
at least
Naturally. we hit hard We have TO
think how long our arms have been
held"
What do you think Of the children
in the play? Are they untrue In their
approval of their parents dlvorce?'
mot at all They represent a genera
ton that will go us one better-and they
will have darn sight easier time of it
because we will understand them better
than your crowd understood us, except
ing few. as you have proved"
''Do you believe what one of the
characters in the play says: Parents
don't belong to themselves. they belong
to their children"
Sure III people will take on the re-
sponsibility OF parenthood that is their
hard luck"
Then IL the parents belong to the
children, to whom do the children be-
long?"
"To themselves"
II see. Then you have both. Where
do we come in?"
you don't. You go out"
81 see. You make II all very clear
to me-"
"Why no;?'
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

After "The Bootleggers" closed here
it did not storm Pittsburgh, as planned,
but is being hopefully recast by Charles
Capehart. William A. Page said that
he did his best to bring liquor back to
New York, but New Workers did not
cooperate completely. Page says he is
not downhearted. and TO prove that
ne is starting on his next work, called
"The Snow Bird" concerned with the
technique of shifting.
One week. when one of the char
acters in the play was called "a dirty
Dago" a party of men OF italian as
pect jumped up in a box and de-
nounced the play as a slur on the
Italian race. A policeman had to be
called to quiet them, and the incident
is said to have caused more excite
ment than the play itself.
Another interesting occurrence was
the fact that two of the players last
week threatened to quit because Of
the jazz orchestra. The Hotel Astor
recalled it's jazz band. which opened
with the show in the cabaret scene,
and another band was imported from
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Stage Hand
Turns Critic

Everybody has had his point of
vielD oppressed acith regard TO
play except d stage hand. A sample
pieWpotnt by one is hcrei0ith sub
mitted
|THAT most popular expletive
damn" did not occur once in
his speech. But there was
emphasis nevertheless in the words of
William Sherry. stage hand at the
Klaw Theater, who took moment off
from manufacturing mystery to de-
scribe his impressions of "The Last
Warning"
"Of course the feelings of the back
stage crew in regard to "a play are
always quite different from those of
the audience" he explained. I'VE are
In the inside and we get TO point
where we can dope out hit before
three rehearsals have passed. That
is we think we can
Now when we watched The Last
Warning we thought it was pretty poor
stuff. If they had offered me ten shares
of II would have said, No. thank you.
I prefer my weekly salary of fifty-five
bucks. I'm sure of that You see we
only picked up bits here and there and
had no way of telling what 1t was all
about. As a matter OF fact we found
out later that this was the very thing
that made the show. 1t was the fact
that no one could possibly dope out the
mystery unless he watched It carefully
from the beginning TO the end.
After the success of the first night
I nearly fell dead. / guess / was kind
of ashamed too because 1 hadn't been
better prophet. Stage hands. you
know, kind of take pride in knowing a
good show when we see one. We
Judge things pretty quickly too. We
watch to sec II the thing moves fast and
IL 1t has good laughs. pnd we get so that
we can gain a general knowledge OF the
story even II we never wait for any
scene to be completed
Mr.. Sherry stopped a minute and
looked thoroughly embarrassed.
AFTER ALL lie Saiu, DluSnlnB NlO-
lently. I'm not used to talking so much.
But IL you want me to wander on A
will"
eyes. yes: go m" we cried svidly.
"a play of this sort gives us boys a
lot of extra work. We are kept pretty
Nbusy looking after the trick scenery. the
tarantula effects and the special furni-
ture. That table In the rehearsal scene
we worked out more than twenty diff
ferent ways until we got IL to work ex-
actly as II should And we try all the
other effects out before every single
performance I'm order to be absolutely
sure that they will go right ,r-.
people know who have seen The
Last Warming are always asking me. II
don't get scared at the strange super
natural effects the haunting business
and the mystery. but laugh. | never
was afraid of the dark, and I never ex-
pect to be. SO far as l am concerned
all that ghostly business means just
turning on and off the lights. I have
bulbs. especially green ones.
II get a lot of pleasure. too. out OF
watching the excitement OF the au-
dience and hearing them laugh. All Of
us make happy crowd back here. We
have our pleasant little chats with
William Courtleigh and Marion Lord.
though we never fail to say Mr. Court
leigh and Miss Lord our life would
be perfectly happy f the grips would
be more careful with the ground cloth
and would stop running the day for the
property man."
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
MY DEAR SIR:

can only pray that the revived interest
in Shakespeare's immortal play, as well
as other worthwhile plays. comes from
the heart OF the people, not as a fad
that must soon blow over.
The testimonials I have been receiv-
ing in the press for the Interpretation
OF that beautiful character JaIict have
been the most cherished Christmas pres
ent have ever received. for, as it
looks now. it may lead TO my participa-
ton soon in an Elizabethan production
of Romeo and Juliet" What gift could
be dearer to the heart of an actress?
s- BERTHA BROAD,
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

|NNcE upon a times vaudeville
J orchestra played THE Rosary
during a spirited act showing
bull fight, and the director afterwards
explained that he chose the incidental
music on the ground that the toreador
was praying that he wouldn't be killed,
At any rate, the b. +. Keith College of
Music housed In the Regent Theater
Building. at seventh avenue and l16th
street, is in the field to prevent such
lack OF liaison between the stage and
the orchestra pit. S. w. Lawton. the
dean of the new college. and his assist
ants are conducting daily classes for
vaudeville and motion picture orches'
in the L. +. Keith, the b. $. Moss and
the f. +. Proctor houses must go to
school. An example of the influence OF
badly chosen Incidental music is ths
well known vaudeville feature Topics
of the Day. made up of merry excerpts
from the newspaper and periodical press
For a long time musical directors ac
companied the Topics with jazz, rag
time and brassy numbers with great
volume of tone. thinking that pep was
the thing to go with humor. Topics
of the Day" didn't score as well as ex-
pected and there was much anxious
study to find the reason. Dean Law
son was detailed to the musical end OF
the situation and reported that the or
chestras were killing the comedy he
laid out a program of Chamnade,
Grieg, Victor Herbert, &c. in light and
dainty numbers with muted brass and
strings and the Topics" registered
great popularity and laughs and are
now a stanch standard feature of Keith
bills.
Wow" has taken the place of
Stomach laugh" in the arGot OF the
two a day Il would rather have
few vows in my monologuc than
series of titters and giggles.' said
headline comedian the other day. BY
WOW / mean what we used to call
stomach laugh but in the general up
lift OF vaudeville that term has been
cancelled.
All the Keith comics are preparing
for after pieces and high jinks at the
special midnight shows tonight. Many
joke and antic that has waited long
for a hearing will be tried 'out in the
new comedy which will augment tec
regular programs.
Little publicity has attended the
staging of a Fokine ballet by Gertrude
Hoffman, who is presenting II in Shu-
bert vaudeville. Miss Hoffman has
long been a devotee of the Russian
ballet. and it should be recorded that
she was among the first American
dancers to appear in New York in a
Russian ballet. This took place in the
summer OF 1911. The place was the Win
ter Garden and the impresario Morris
Gest. Out of this somewhat oddly mixed
show sprang a series of ballets. in which
Miss Hoffman appeared on tour. Every
thing was done in an extravagant FASH
ion. There was an enormous company
with a huge orchestra and all OF the
other things that add 20 the expanse of
such an undertaking. Since then she has
played In several Broadway pieces. ap-
pearing always In between times in con-
densed revues. Not until this season.
however. has she been able to get back
to her first ideal.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

We feel that we could do IL q. great
deal better than the professional dra-
matte critic can /: we feel that our re-
view would display a sunniness and OPP
timisn--a sweetness Of nature. in fact
too often unhappily lacking in the crit
The New York herald., 1922-12-31


EARS ago, in Paris, I saw play
Of which the present singular
J. opportunity reminds me. The
heroine 1 think she was the heroine)
had insisted upon taking her little dog
into an opera box: the dog had misbe-
haved. barking during the singing, and
the heroine and her rsrty had been
2s,,ea TO leave.
They returned 10 her apartment. fol-
lowed by reporter who wished 10 in
terview the heroine. a celebrity. about
her election from the opera house But
she declined to SPEAK TO him and 20
did alisthe others OF her party. except
one. This was an old actor who was
hoping for n bite of supper. but gladly
postponed the bite In order to talk TO
the reporter.
what sort of dog Is lt?" the re-
porter inquired. "And what did he do
that caused the scandal"
Il was born at Amiea. In 1889" the
old actor replied. II had talent. had
always ionged 20 no upon the stage, and
my parents kindly gave their consent.
"At the ase Of IL, made my first APP
pearance as Z,n;ro In the tragedy OF
ZobeIde' and scored triumph Ms
next role. similarly triumph. was
Tdrfuffe. the following year pursuing
my success"
Thus the old gentleman continued
and in answer 20 the question about
the dog. favored the reporter with a
complete autobiography expureated OF
all reverses. -
A playwright. asked by rewspa per
20 review his own play. must necessarily
exercise as much self restraint as he
can. Without endangerins his health,
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

and yet the opportunity is one the pres
ent writer has lorg awaited. Indeed. 1
think It is a very general theory among
playwrights that II would be a good
thing il they could write their own re-
views
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
THE SUBWAY crncurr.

MONTAUK TuEATER tBrooklyn) -
Irene Bordoni IN "rhe French DOLL.
TELLERs sHuBERT THEATER---
"Diana Comes to Town. with Charles
Ruggles.
MAJESTIC TfIEATER--H y. War.
ner i'm Bull Dog Drummond'
SHUBERT RIVIERA THEATER
tManhattan) - Just Married." with
vivian Martin and Lynne Overman.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

Raymond Hitchcock has already been
measured for whiskers for King Lear,
which he threatens TO revive with o
comedy twist in Keith vaudeville.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
ny BOOTH HARRINGTON.

WheB "Roso Bridr' trus IN baltimore
during us preliminary tour Booth
TcrkiuOton. on request. became the
rerfcrer Of his olcn play, aud the re-
suitinO roricio. first published in hc
baltimore sun, is herewith repro
dlFcd.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
The Message
of the Violets

IN the current issue Of Variety, the
Seuertee',fh Anniversary number OF
that theatrical iceckly, D,any players and
pldyi1rtghts haze inserted cards ac-
cerdisla 10 a1t dacioat custom. aud soms
q tIf NJ glosrc sicg suspect .aciH be little
psIceisd and ctcr dltnoyed by the card
thns Inserted Jy the authors Of 'Mcrtoa
Of the MoDies.' It foIlows.:
THE SEASONS GREETINGs
from
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN
MARC CONNOLLY
ON TOUR:
"The Birth OF a Nation"
Peg o. My Heart
Patty at College" (two companies).
Macbeth"
Seven Little Peppers and How They
Grew" tfive companies).
"The First Year (three companies)
A Musical Version OF Aida"
IN NEW YORK.
Rain"
Liza"
The Minslxy Brothers.
Kaufman and Connelly's Music Boz
Revue"
IN PREPARATION:
"Yvette."
"The Red Dawn"
1.-The London Follies."
1.-THE Survival OF the Ffttest."
\ First Is Last"
THE Forty-niners."
IN LONDON:
'Loyalties."
"Phi-Phi."
"Decameron Nights"
IN AUSTRALIA:
ladies Night"
"Ben Hur.'
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

, EARS ago, in Paris. I saw play
OF which the present singular
opportunity reminds me. The
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Williams Learns
From His Son

Continued from Preceding Page.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

"The Lonely Heart" a play by Ed
ward Sheldon which was tried out last
spring on tour with Basil Sidney hav-
ing heart. is to he presented after
all hv the Shuberts. after having been
run through his typewriter again by
the author #
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

Mr.. Rice is the author of "On, Tridl"
aud at is the Lato," noto at the Ritz
Thedter.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16

The Leathers family returned
to Burton Saturday for the sum
mer. The same trip of the
NaShona brought Mrs. Geo. Whit
man, Miss Zella aud Mr.. Award
Whitman from their school work
at Medford, Oregon. They visit
ed over Sunday with the Cooks,
and Monday left for Seattle and
other places to be gone most of
the summer.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16
BURTON
Mrs, A. Hunt)

Mrs. NJ. Lindeman and baby are
here from st, Louis to spend the
summer with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs, Chavis. At present she is
visiting a sister east of the
mountains.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16

The Ladies Aid met at the
home Of Mrs, G, Peterson We'd
nesday, June 7, with a good at
tendance and the following visit.
ors: Mrs. La France, Mrs. G.
Madsen, Mrs, Hay of Buckley,
and Mrs. A. j. Stuckey. AT the
close Of the meeting the hostess
served coffee and cake assisted
by Mrs. g, Middleton of Penn
brook Mrs. b. II. Scanlon will
be the next entertaining hostess
Wednesday, July II.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16

Mrs. Deane and Miss Marion
Deane are back from the Tacoma
general hospital somewhat i'm
proved in health. Miss Eaton is
spending the summer with them,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16

Mrs. Eta McNair returned
from Waitsburg Monday, where
she has been caring for her sis
ter for several weeks. She was
SLIGHTLY better when she left,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16

Entertainment and social at the
Community Hall Saturday eve,
June II. Admission, adults, 15c,
children Zoe, Ice cream, ice
cream sundaes, coffee and cake
will be served in the dining room
at popular prices. Given under
the auspices of the Ladies Aid,
Everyone is cordially invited.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16

Miss Media Noble has accepted
the principalship of the grammar
shool at Woodinyille at a hand
some increase in salary besides
a four room cottage free of rent,
and with the privilege of choos-
ing three associate teachers, Miss
Noble Will also have charge of
the new $4,000 gymnasium, and
has made several trips to Tacoma
inspecting fixtures in the city
gyms.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16
DOCKTON
Mrs. Claude Pctcrscn)

Miss Katherine Meyers of Sed-
no Woolley is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Il. Riehm,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16

Mrs, j, II. Reihm left for Gin
ton Tuesday morning to be with
her sister, Mrs. Saiesburg, who
is sick at her home there.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16
CENTER
(Mrs. Ray Miner)

Mrs. Williams accompanied the
Tacoma delegation of Rc5eccas
to Olympia on Saturday and re-
turned Thursday. Governor
Hart entertained the Rebeccas at
his residence ON Sunday and
Monday. Mrs. Williams reported
a wonderful time.