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RESTArnAXTK MAXHAmV Ux AST OR im pmt AlUEOWlMVNIiwn UTiy Don't You Curb Your Luncheon Extravagances As I Did? si A1 -j I Artftar Kmpkina prr mrr SI Ikr ilth MIS jt 'W TROUPER" a nnotdytt tbrn teti bjr JX Nugant kail Pik- mtS by tha Playabop at the IH Etraat natw Staged by Edwin Maxwell and Nina Mai aa Mary Millatt THE CAST Helea- Caraw XT isn't at all nccwsiy my dcsrp to pay exhorbitant prices Take your luncheons and dinners at Hotel Bristol' and you'll find 'they're uaasusQy dc-Brioos and tasty Yet they will cost you surprisingly little Come with me to the Bristol tomorrow noon and I just know you'll become a 'regular'" Melly Crtlea Mlldrad Baath i Uwlfht Allan Harold Elliott IbrU MlUatt Carloton Macy Tilly Rntb iffnsont Larry Ollbart hagant Mr Tralayna -Robert Halnra Mr Bonaon Walton- BnttarflaM Thill aaasoaaaoaaaoaaaaaaao HttkAB Etaia Splata Carlotta Irwin -ji A- -gr r-: sfij -V'-J --y A A Vr t-'A I A tC ZA V11 'is I a-if I i iT si T-'l JU-v tg i- i-: Delroy in the revue at Chartin' 'jy Fraiik AclHty)TB Renio Riant and Irene 1 1 The Girienia Circuit Br MARTIN DIC)C5TE1N Douglas Fairbanks and His ilbrboyv Bring Black to the Selwyn Theater -r' i Vi' -if i a --T V- 'r -rk Vfa i A t- -T i v-1' V- Xwomr -dfc -On Ths ylth Charles Gilpin' will not close at the Provlncetowh i Playhoifiw 'aa' was first sported "East tbs fourth subscript lon bill of the Prov-Incstown Playhouse will open- at the Greenwich Village-'? Theater on Wednesday i The Tuesday matlneer of the revue at the Heckscher Theater wll be discontinued beginning today The midweek' performances will be held on Wednesdays Instead' -a Marc Connelly author of "The Wisdom at the Little Theater has appointed understudy to Thomas Mitchell who has ths leading rolsThtotomore than a gesture as Mr Connelly hsis agresd to play Mr MltchslTs part on ths Mondaiy night four -or five weeks hence when Mr play "Glory open out of town This play written In collabo-fatlon with Bertram Bloch to about te go Into rehearsal under the dirsc-tlon 6f Gufbrie McCllntiCi a Thi kntire company 6f Res the guest of the Hippodrome management yesterday afternoon Diana Hunt has returned to tho cast of after an Illness of two weeks The 175th statuette will be smashed by Charles Trowbridge In the character of Welter Craig in at ths Morosco Ths-atsf te fisUbtate tbe Tilth sf tkto lay tonight The Girl ln the Garden" new Cosmo Hamilton comedy adapted from tho original French version of Louis Vsrnsull opened lest night at the Broad -Street Theater Newark In the cast are Vivienne Osborns She to a circus performer end seems tor be natural 'born vamp She works her wiles on the middle-aged trackwalker and the result a few months later gives tho wife a chance to do some emotional acting Considering ths 'handicaps the play -which to rather-trite and crude was fairly well done Anyway It afforded -Margaret Arrow a chance aa the wife to do a fine bit of work In the scene where she finds ont that hsr husband and tbs girl have been "carrying while she has been flagging ths -tralna It turned ouMater that Miss Arrow bad played ths part in German with a stock company up Harlem way Ths other members of the cast did their best Tom: Hovww -y heart tq see It fat! will probably hurt blip too It to a bad 'play And those i are tho sama Nugento who' wrote and "Tho Boor pieces more practical and practiced and on of them at least considerably more charming J- to net a masterly performance in the Tole qfthe actor-father who as in the1 old-time drama die-covers hto long lost progeny plays almost do jef ally Bath Nugent plays the daughter nicely enough struggling with a touch of fiu Mildred Booth Harold Elliott Carlotta Irwin Robert -T Haines Mitchell Harris and the rest fio the best they can under the 1 circumstanced' several of them better than could be expected Sry4s rial It was loot exactly wasted effort though'iob the part'if He wilt-feel -better now- that he-has Japa NugenV s- that he-' has -a Vo'': The Ftiundllhadhouse? -FIND DAP0T' a IifM' tkn (ti hr 4 I ndfiUfBvMitr pthsM by I PtMTii it tlwIUi TbwUr tiA staged Beth Todd Jane PettMMU Katd Rsrkey Ctaatfrar KM Barilla Ram laosls Kimball Jerry Todd Horace Braham Reoacll Morffon CharUo Irwhl Vera Mersan- 1 Mabel Acker Lftft'y W09d a eeedeaed' PBVl Kfllljf1 Wood a a peso UoUreyel offloor s's eBabori TtrjNi 1 They Cearried the baby' up down staira in and ou( of ddora pu it in a basket left it lying the doorstep 1 as each man in the cast thought he waa'-lta and each woman "claimed-to bC the mother cf the poor lttfle thiag: 1- All' thto madnesa happened at the Rlts In Manhattan last night whefe I Percival presented a nolay End not particularly fiixmy farce called The piece which was -written by Tadema Busalere to built -along' lines popular far Uio ysars boforo th Kaiser went mad and all the world at- wax Also it-wke acted- in' the- same netoy manner once considered necessary to produos -fun In ths thsater -It would bs the height of absurdity to attempt to toll the plot of the piece It did not have a bit of sense Apparently Its -author had read an Henry statement that If you rang the doorbell at any house and simply all to discovered" you would create' trouble So after- number of impoaslbla complications to start the ball s-roll-Ing one brilliant Jokester wrote a letter gntt -pinned It on the dress of the baby accusing various msn of being the infant's father And like the Henry- remark these letters created trouble And this trouble was kept moving until It was time to ring down tho final curtain -v -To play this madhouse sort' of a faros a fairly competent cast has been gathered together Dorothy Peterson a rather pretty little thing was ths real and perfectly proper mother of the child And theh there was Horace Braham made up like Charter Irwin and Pant Kelly who all were accused of tho honor 1 Or the female side of tho "house there were fonnd-Enid Mabel Acker and Peggy Allenby who all for friendship sake decided to be the- mother 1 r- All In all "Find to a grand mess It may find favor with a mentality that enjoys the Sunday comic supplements Li DE Trackwalkers" Everybody who saw ths drsfs-rehearsal of at ths studio-theater of Jpseph Lewren SI West lSth st Manhattan on gun-day evening had perfectly lovely time 'After the play was Over jdr La wren took a chair near the edge of the tiny stage -and told of' the ends aims and -objects of the Proscenium Club which to fathering this play The play concerns Peter Ewald a trackwalker who lives a happy humdrum life with hto wife seeing that trains pass hto junction safely "A young girl drifts Into- ths cottage out of tho cold and to allowed to remain REATLOVE and Rny num)Mr of nifties have rone into the writing of "The the new play that found -its way to the stage of the 5 2d jstreet Theater: last night It is the work- of a staunch old trouper named Nugent and his trouper son Elliot If it were not for which fact might'y that It could hare' heen'ihad" Into a' very agreeable and cffectiY? --QUlff oomedy had the the good sense call ln it-' oanny old trouper to fix It up Since 'that -Can scarcely be said it lijtist That "The thsugfr not 'the tfork -of amateurs is decidedly' Amateurish Nugent perC loves It so much he all but bursts Into over it -Though Nugent-- reverences ths theater obviously with an undying and idolatrous reverence loves its well-seasoned practitioners its effects its tried add trusty hokum and make-believe' he fails just where the old trouper-ought-never to Tail he cannot make his play 'a good show He exhibited' a slap-stick last night but sentimentalised over Jt Instead of with' it smacking die handiest pair of trousers The elder Nugent has written for himself tle role of one of those lovable old ancestor-worshippers 1 an actor-jester 'descendant of -a long line of performers reaching back to the Impromptu comedians of early days or maybe to Thespis and his cart And so he Is seen as a doleful but doughty' down-at-heel son of an acrobat and a- juggler who playlngTn a modern drama and seeing it stranding in ths sticks takes out of trunk the1 slap-stick Ml the bladder forgetting only a fright-wig and digging up up from his mind a dosen or so ancient stock farces turns failure info success' He stages onp of those that actors out of jobs years ago liked to imprevlse-Jn the small towns Ha forces ths haughty -and carelessly feept leading lady to blacken her fees tbs bumptlons-jlsading matt similarly to humble himself fpr enough money to pay this fare back to Brotgway and he 'makes of his gentle little daughter whom he ha discovered now after many year hie leading lady 8he turns out fins Ths young mah Who seeing hsr that morning for the first time fell in love with her and asked to marry her la turned from a Jay Into a trooper and so forth and so on It must have been a labor of love for ths elder Nugent My It to all exceedingly Once a trouper always ft trouper ray Hr Nugent and his son a Georgs M-Cohan said It not so ago In Hong and Danes' Hi long an But 'Cohrfi In addition to being trouper Knew and Knows his business much better than the Nugents from ths point of view of the pres-ent-dsy audience He did not allow the tears of affection to dim his eyes nor sympathy to make hto writing hand unsteady And so The to for ths most part lackluster entertainment as slow and blundering and ineffectual as Its trouping hero before hto awakening The old fellow with the inquiet Mood of tho strolling player In' his veins dwells so long on the sentiment of hl story that he makes It often mawkishly Sentimental The 'thing dodders not little to feebly self-indulgent Only its feqmorous lines brightness to its often lines tbst aotors can enjoy and lovers of the region back stage There are enough of these smart witticisms to equip A gpod play If it were ss smartly puL together Only an old trouper with a dollar-sense stronger than hto sen? timenta could whip this comedy into shape To change a line of It would-doubtless break Mr Nugent Sr's 4ttkStrtet Theater It to my guess that you will like Black Immensely It will afford you as exciting sa evening as ever you are likely to spend before the screen There fire splendid performances besides that" of the ever dependable Mr Fairbanks by Billie Dove Bam Ds Grasse and Donald Crisp Mayfair for The new Mayfair- Theater on 44th Manhattan will house the New York production of and the the play by Sean which Augustin Duncan npw has in preparation' Tho Mayfair to an Intimate house eating fewer than S00 people and to particularly suited to this type of play which despite being Irish to neither knockabout farce nor deep tragedy It to described in dispatches from London where It to now play lug as a character-comedy with a tragic undercurrent Back "Blossom tho musical play based on the life of Frans Schubert returned to Jo Theater lest night for a limited engagement RlUkTAURXNTS BROOKLYN vsTfcctrs: BROOKLYN Table Dinner Every Evening 8 to 8:00 o'clock $175 Mule during Dinner after" ward a concert in the foyer from to IF you sr looking for tho boot cr for your money ntd Tho Eaile Auto Ad In Clowlflad Column By KAHLES 4 Hhe eSima Erie BIpre David Yorke Verree Teas dale Ralph Bunker A' Andrews and Carle ton Rivers It will be seen shortly on Broadway Ben-Ami wlll bo atarrsd In rSchwelger" the Werfel play which ho Is dirseting at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse' The- cast headed by Ann Harding' Minnie Dupree Georgina Tllden Philip Lelgb Edward Forbes Buckler Philip Wood and Edward Van Sloan Tho- 'opening date of "Schwelgsv" hae boon definitely set for March It i "The Chief by Nicholas Evrelnoff will be presented by the Theater Guild Monday evening March 1 aft he-Guild Theater In the caitm McKay Morris Kay Johnson 4 Dwight Frye Hsian Westley 1 Ernest Cossart Henry Travers Alice Belmore Cliffs Esther Mitchell Edward Robinson Edith Meteor Romney Brent and Stanley Wood 1 Theresa Helbqrn will speak on the Theater repertory program for next season at 8t Mark's on Sunday afternoon Inarch 14 Douglas Fairbanks najr Whote lateet film The Black had -ite premiire at (he SeU wan Theater last night UAItoi sad Gold Dinner every evening mmd Sunday wise Special Bins Plate Dinner served in Grill HOTEL BRISTOL ELLIOTT TOLSON JW 129 West 48 St BROOKLYN YD CHAPLIN OH! 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