San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

of a plumbing shop on Houston street,
He had to reach Broadway by the
way of Paris. At the American Bar
last summer he was n sensation, sing
ing his plaintive "MOntmartre Rose
and a dope song" that is an original
characterization. Tommy is best sing
ing of poppy nights, faithless lovers
and the like.
When l saw him in Paris this sum-
mer he said he believed New York was
the coolest town in the world. And
on Broadway the other day he said it
was the warmest hearted city in the
universe.
A Romance OF Producing.
Twenty-Five angels" along Broad,
way received dividend checks last week
from "the two Mikes" Michael Gold
rcyer and Michael Mindlin, the 90 and
23-year-Old producers of The Last
Warning" 1t was another chapter in
an amazing stage romance. When the
ducerS were at the end of their re-
sources. They went out into the high
ways and secured 22 hackers from va
riOus walks of life.
The largest amount any one of the
% hackers contributed was $4,000.
while several took a so interest. The
play is now in its fifteenth week and
will clear a million. The lads were for
merly office boys in Al Woods office.
saw Broadway's most dignified &C
tor the other day. He is T. Wigney
Percyval, an auStere and determined
EngliShman. He is even laughter
than Laurence D'Orsay. You should
gaze upon his spats and great coat o,
my word!
The theater world has bad its TRACE
dies this season. One of the faircSt OF
the younger StarS-a vibrant Southern
girl-haS lost engagement after engage
ment as the result of her love for Ii
Quor. So riOtous has become her be-
havior that one hotel frequented by
theatrical people has informed her that
her presence in the dining room is
unwelCOme.
Another leading lady is in a Con
necticut sanitarium fighting off the
grip of drug addiction.
Glenn Hunter is giving one of the
finest performances in town in "Mer-
ton of the Movies" There is a young
man who is destined for big things, if
he keeps up his present pace.
George Conan has one play that he
wrote and produced this season. A year
ago he had quit. But his Little Mel
lie Kelly" is running along nicely at
the Liberty.
Namps Three Automobiles.
Wealthy debauches who frequent the
theater have been attracted by n young
1S-year-old girl with straight bobbed
hair who is appearing in a musical
comedy. She is said to have hooked
three of them for automobiles-count
EN- three and lives peacefully with
her mother in the wilds Of New Jer-
sey.
She is said to be the most accom-
plished yamp since Peggy Whatser-
name.
The "high yallcr' shows are on the
decline. Only one negro performance
is on the boards.
But. of course. there is Florence
TO her dusky feet. She is to be trans
ported to London in a revue this
spring. She is a Harlem girl and quite
the idol Of the Black Belt. Cafes up
there are named after her and a new
apartment house is to be called 1.-The
Florence Mills"
The Ostermoor drama has become
passe. There isn't a play with bed
room scene running just now.
1t has been profitable season in
the theater and. if the theater is any
barometer of business conditions. bust
ness every day in every way is getting
better and better.
There have been many failures but
the cause was due directly to bad
plays. Any show that has a wallop
rings the bell and gathers in the
shekels.
This is true of vaudeville as well as
the legitimate theater and burlesque.
Copyright. 1923. by The Mcknight
Syndicate, Inc.D