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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE XEW YORK SUNDAY APRIL 10 1921 CONCERNING PLAYS AND- PLAYERS NEWS OF PLAYS AND ACTORS About' the Theater By ARTHUR POLLOCK Athena it loea eome bf lta pictorial beauty but little of lta tragic force The pictorial qualitlee of a Greek performance Maurice Browne who ataged the play at the Manhattan Opera House haa tried pathetically to reproduce Mr Browne la a very Irritating gentleman WE know of no place where eeelng a motion picture la made a more pleasureful experience1 than it la at the Capitol Theater Manhattan There are any number of huge film palace where the orchretraa and itaffa of singe ra and dancer are large and Industrious Moat of them are better example of Indnatiy than of art The large majority of motion picture theaters are a till in the stage wherein the gaudy Is pot forward aa the beautiful In them the eye and the ear are aasaulted not aa they should be seduced The intent of the orchestras the musicians the dancera la to capture the attention not to captivate This Is not the case at the Capitol There one find delicacy a certain sensitiveness to art When the orchestra playa Tschalkowsky or Wagner the resultant Bounds are not painful but pleasurable The primary object of Mr Rothapd la arranging the musical pro grama seems not to popularise good music but to Interpret It Good music la apparently taken for granted at the Capitol the musician at home with It Elsewhere only IrAufiifttut Thomas knew half much about play-making aa ho doe hia playa would ho twice ao uccroeful And If ho-wero half aa unhltioua they would bo about fbur 'Jnn aa prosperous Aa It la he haa much the appearance of a master cabinet-maker drying to turn hlmaelf into a philosopher For two acta hi' now play "Xemesta" the Hudaon Theater la dull largely becauae Mr Thomaa 1 a fery clever play-maker No one la more dexteroue than be at the bualueoa of telling the audience what It need to know in order to understand the play 1 But he I unfortunately enamored of bte akllL He enjoys the writing if exposition eo much that he cannot rcabt the temptation to drag In unnecessary facta In order to give hlmielf the plea aura of expounding them deftly Ilia flrat two acta are hardly more than an exhibition of expoaltlon He could If he had wished have boiled them down to one That would have been better for the audience but not nearly ao much Tun for Mr Thomas Hie aklU at putting playa together haa been reeponalble for hla wble reputation aa a playwright And hie wide reputation haa made him am-bitioua to be aomething more than a mere empty technician He want 'to be a man who tella the world thing he thlnka it ought to know So he "read on thing Then he trice to pus the results of hla too often real music makes Its spreading in capsule form for popular pee ranee all dresaed up In flashy consumption Psychoanalysis and clothes like an Interloper ill at ease Unger prints are his latest- subjects among the cultured but anxious to for research jj Jmake an Impression At the Capitol We doubt if Mr Thomas has ever the dancers are njot merely muscular tend modern noyel Popular exhibitionists but individuals to seem science he haa covered pretty well actually to bo aware of the fact that But ihe teat of hi reading seems dancing is an aril- to have mvered only the standard There has since John Wenger left works He hauls proudly into the theater been noticeable a alight comments on Dante Do tendency to prettify the' stage- aet-Qulncey and a few other dead lit- tings instead of continuing to attempt erary gentlemen whose works everj the achievement of beauty But the well-read man discovered long-ago prettlness la never of the cheap sort Has Mr' Thomas Just discovered This theater Is not the only one them If so how tong will it take where the beet of the movies are to him to get up to Shaw Wells Gala- be seen but la a playhouse where worthy end the rest of the accepted all good films ought to go when they moderns! die The fact Is Augustus Thomas la THE Cabinet of Dr Catlgari the German film shown during the past week at the Capitol revealed some of the possibilities of the screen Wo have nover believed thoroughly standardised He connoisseur of rubber stamps SOME months ago wo spent two or three paragraphs assiduously turning our 'nose at Margaret up th movie capable of amounting to Anglln'o performance In Wo- anything worth mentioning This man of the collection of flm evidence that they can if worn-out dramatic trirka In "bleb the men who make them want she haahoen appearing atiha Fraies them to tr li Then tor wt caned her fn acting-j xhe men who make -them how- machine hud an old-fashioned one ever elm flrat to make money et that Wa take It back An act- works of art are not created that way To make money the manufacturers of illma have to see to It that their products will appdhl to the In habitants of every dty and town In the country regardless of the tastes of any Individual or group of Individuals -Thus motion pictures must of necessity if they ere to earn thousand! of dollars for their makers entertainment reduced to Its lowest and simplest terms Plays can be written and even produced for tbo delectation of a very small section of the public Movlea cannot That they cannot be limited In appeal and prosper At least they cannot under such circumstances i prosper to aa extend that will satbfy their makera Perhaps some day then will spring up little groups of At the Play in Brooklyn lug-machine a histrionic prestidigitator she Is Old-fashioned aha Is too At the same time ghe la quite the opposite What we should have eatd Is that aha can be machine-like and old-fashioned when aha wante to bey" Wo wtsh she never wanted to but that Is not the point 'She Jan't these thing when she doesn't went to be Which la the point Her acting ia quite evidently aub-Ject to her wilh- At any rate in her performance of Clytamneatra In Id 'loot Thursday 'evening at the Manhattan Opera House not a single histrionic trick obtruded Kho wen dytemnsstra a -'woman facing a crisis lot moiety foxy emotional actress maklag fiees 'for an audlenco And her methods were as modern aa the week after next There are very few other actreaae of boday who could rerivo Greek drama and make it'eeem anything more than an abortive attempt to ap- pear a highbrow Ordinarily Greek drama is beat left to dead Greeks and antiquaries Bnt Mbs Anglia able to make It Impressive molting In her bands "Ipblgenis in Is much more than a museum exhibit It vibrant modem drama Presented inside theater instead of In an amphitheater aa It was in Score or More Stars 'to Be Seen In Actors 9 Fund Shorn at Montoi earnest people who' will atari a little: QAM SON AND DELILAH" with Bcu-Aml the young Russian actor wko Movie Theater Movement simitar to has attracted much attention lit Manhattan thb season will be the attraction at Shnliert Theater thb week Is the success- the screen I ul to Brooklyn before this will be seen agalu at the Montauk end The Cabinet of Dr is I of Is scheduled for present atlon'at the Shuliert-Crescent the sort of motion picture that would I Ono of the moat notable event! of the theatrical season wlH occur at tht Montauk Theater next Hun day evening April It when the curtain rise on a benefit performance which will be the flrat Of a series of anyual benefit to be Alven in Brooklyn Jn the interest of the Actors' Fund of America There will appear no less than four doxen of the brightest luminaries of the theatrical ftrmqjiwpt supported I by a slngeful of leading actors and i art set re see a In festival then be fostered It automsttcally Hen-Ami at Tenet's Miubcrt in flARLONEJOHNSON extonds the frontiers of motion pic ture-maklng It raises the standards Infinitely Thb story of a lunatic Is the most Intelligent motbn picture we have ever seen eat bidder Ming Toy Impersonated by Helene Blnnott is one of these and at' the last moment alio la bought by a Chinese merchant at the solicitation of Billy 110000-00 American Hhe la taken away to the home of Lo Bang Kec her purchaser In Han Frnnrlaco From thla place Billy Bcnaon takes Jiec to the home of hlo parents where her real Joy begin Fairfax author of "Adikf I Lovelorn" then Ada Baa Ycife dunce and aing Alice Bat company in "The Recoil" it will bq followed by Adcle aengs and another ncw "Love And Kisses" with a (tab by Helen Ware Herbert Or George Arils Olive tVjmfo way Tcarlc Laura Hope Crew Mitchell Alin Audrvwg Jew and Blanche Yurka ArtoiPf wilh an all-star cast la played by Jeanne Eagles wick Maclyn Ar buckle aid Lowe A drama knows a angle" with Frances fluff Broese Vincent flemwo Craig and Turn Lewi of Nat Iona" speech era a program A grent many others among them being Charm Robert Haines FrederWTW Paul Everton Marc IWW Alice Flemming Hartley Catherine Roberts wto novelties especially gotta this bill all under the perww agement of Daniel Fro" staged by Alexander wflww NEW PLAYS THIS WEEK NORMA TALMADGE STAR- ON SCREENAT STRAND Tuesday Trial of Joan of a translation of Emile Moreau's play will be prevented by Margaret Anglin at the Bhubert Theater on Tuesday evening Mia Anglin will be seen In the principal role and with her will be practically the same cast that appeared in the a three-hour of drams and song Drama musical comedy tragedy comedy fareg song and dance are all part of tho program The program will be opened by Mrs Flake who will tell the audience of the cause they have gathered to honor I Then comes a novelty act headed by lAlphons Ethler and a supporting east i then Frank Bacon of fame Jn short stories then a sketch entitled i "Love" written for thb occasion by Jay Kaufman with a cast headed iby KrAnrtne Lftrrtmoir Norman Tre- vor Robert Ames Merle Maddern and others Then will appear Beatrice son autl Delilah" Ben-Ami the young Kuselan actor who hits been the subject of much favorable comment during the present season In Manhattan will appear at Bhubert Theater this week Mr Ben-Ami will be auen In "Samson and Delilah" a drama of Danish orl gin by Bven Lsnga Despite III title Ihe play la not a scriptural one Ita Philistine are thouc of our own tlnira and tha Biblical alory la uacd only In a nynibollcal way The play deal with the Htruaglca of a young poet and dramatist Ben-Ami camevto thle country with the beat tradition of the Kunlun atage' Hla ambition led him to found tha Jewish Art Theater In Munhat tan and the merit of the performances attracted even thorn unfamiliar with the Innguagc Among them waa Arthur Hopkins who Induced him to attempt a career on tha Kiigllah-npeaklng atage For the past six month he haa boon appearing In "Bnmaon and Dellluh" Mr Hopkins hna surrounded Ben-Ami with a capable company which Includes Pauline Lprd and Robert Haines The stage Meltings are by Robert Edmond Jones Norma Talmadgo will appear on tha screen after a long absence tha Brooklyn Mark strand Theater this week in a photo-dramatic version of "The passion Flower" by the Spanish playwright Jacinto Bonavanto Passldn the play In which Nance O'NcU has been starring on tha alaga for the last two aeeaona The SYLVIA CLARK HEADS Sill at boro park Sylvia Clark will head tha vaudeville portion of the bill the first half of the coming week at Keith's newly opened Boro Park Theater Mlaa Clark who la known aa "The Olad Girl" will frolic and romp through a eerles of oong ditties bits of ehattor and clowning The screen feature will be Elliott Dexter In "The Witching Hour" plc-turlsed from the play of the Mime name by Augustus Thomaa Others on the bill will Include Vernon Stiles tenor formerly of the Metropolitan end Chios go Grand Opera companies play on Easter Bumlsy at the Century Theater for the benefit of ii Hoover's European Relief Fund It Includes Fred Eric Langdon Bruce Eugene Powers Gilbert Gran Kyriney Mather Maronl DOROTHY JARDON STAR Mage presentation or "The Paaalon Flower" In Brooklyn called for return engSKemeota and tha screen version CHARLES WITHERSTTOR THE BUSHWKt Olsen Harry Rurfuot Howai Kyle Ralph Roedcr and Lark Taylor ON BILL AT ORPHEUM promises to be Just as popular Herbert Brenon has directed "The i of Krtu" at the Shqbcrt-Qnwnt In "Hearts of an Irish comedy from the pens of Charles Bredky and Ixrin Howard George Gatta will present hla young Irish star Walter Bosnian a resident of Bay Ridge at the Bhubert-Creecent Theater thle week Mr Bosnian who la a protege of the com poser Victor Herbert la beat known from his performance In thu leading tenor role of Mr Herbert'e opera "Eileen" of Erin" tella a story of love In Ireland ln tlic Eighteenth Century In tha company are Greta 8hermart Olive Moore Charles Dingle Daniel Kelly Lawrence O'Brien Thomas Gillen Larry McCiiy and latrry Murphy Beds at the Beds" Margaret Mgyo and Pillabury Field's popular farce will make lta annual visit to the Montauk Theater' this week The story la built round the difficulties or three married couples living In a big apartment house with all the neighbors desirable and undcilr able always under foot First they achieve nelghborllncee and then have it thruat upon them Ealna Curson will head the cast playing the role of a young wife who has an Irresistible impulse to tell white libs which Dorothy Jardon lata prims donna of the Chicago Grand Opera Com-tho bill at ns aw Miller and Chapman "Just- a Little Pnsnton Irtowar1 and Court onay Foots i (ft rent" Carl Emmy's Pals animal and llsrrlson Ford are tha bmH" performers Hubert Kinney with Mnr- 'tha Shelby In a new dance production Topics of the Day and the Boro men This la a story of love and Jealousy make no end of comic trouble 'In the cast are Joseph Crehan Antoinette wi" J4 Keith's Charles Withers the comedian will top lh 6111 Keith's Bushwlcfe Thwi Mr Withers will PP' esty III led 11 nci a --r on the old-style I "For Fliy'a Rochte D'Angelo: Bess Stafford Bennett Finn and Callle Van Vllet turned from Kngl apiieared for a ra this sketch Sir jl aisled by a company -1 aisled by a THE DEKALB musical comedy Tn fF muMCAi ty Orpheum the coming week Mlaa Jardon will give a song recital which will include ballade and operatic selections George Whiting and Badlo Burt will be heard In their newest offering called Bongs" Franker Wood and 'Bu nee Wyde assisted by Francois soloist and William Wilson puntnuilmlst and dancer will ytreaent "All Right Eddie V- a disconnected Bert Levt the artist-entertainer la and hatred that turn Into love again The author won tha Nobel prise for literature last year Managing Director Edward lly- man has planned a prologue called "In 1 Old Madrid" which will Introduce "The Passion Flower" In the pro- logne there will bo a Spanish dance and a Spanish song by Fernandl Guar-neri baritone who will also appear 1 In tho proloKiio from "Fagltaccl" the vocal duet from the opera 11 Trovatnre" will ba sung by Kitty McLaughlin soprano and 1 Ralph Soule tanoP Tha orchestra will play i "Poet and Peasant" as an overture I Tho other Him subjects are Mack Bennett comedy "Unhappy Finish" Park News Pictorial Yvette wno recently played at tho Palaco with marked success will be the vaudeville headliner for tho second half of Ihe week Assisted by Eddie (look and Kino Clark Mlaa Yvette will ba seen In her "A' Smart The screen feature will Treasure" starring Marian Davies Others on the bill-wilt Include Senator Francis Murphy of tha Committee" Lew Shlntky Hilton and Ned Norton "The Laugh Creators" Camille Trio In a comedy bar offering Topics of tho Day and the Boro Park News Pictorial la at tho Majestic William Harrla Jr's production pf I la announced aa the attraction at the Majestic Theater thla wrFk This will be the eecond engagement of the popular piny hy Baiif-net Hlilpman at Ihe Majesllr this ica-aon It la the story of a Chinese girl who came from the practlral life of the Orient The opening scene I on the deck of a lore boat on the Yanglse River where girl arc sold to the high- The arreen feature at tha DeKalb will be with Douglas Mac-Lean and Gladya George The story deals with the adventures of a wealthy city chap who takes to chicken farming Five acta of vaudeville and a Sunshine Comedy Baby" fill out the program For the second half of the wreck Douglas Fairbanks In Nut" is the frature luring Billy Abbott iS i Henutii'S will be Glaaon will be Iwnl ly qayliiKs" written by M1 Iw lers Arkanaj were Brothers will demonstrate "will nriHuiiBii" fu down for comedy pantomime I imnrfwioneM Lou sketching and whialltng offering 1 fl 'vri Uatlylee Llppard in Russ Brown and Connie O'Donnell and As Is" with MR PIM PASSES BY and the Mark Strand Topical News I Review will offer a comedy skit entitled In Fun" Marguerite Padula In "A Bong Rtudy of Boy" Alexandria in a syncopated offering the Jordan Girls In singing and dancing turn tha Rials in novelty offering' Topics of the Day and the Orpheum News Pictorial will complete the bill piano The Irk1l5--kli(iiii Mac and IW- of the Day and the Pictorial will rouml 0Bl LOEWS Will Rogers In and a Mack-Sennett R1 "On a Summer' (f at Loew'e Brr'onri Jll The feature forh 51 week will be Ma Gilded STEEPLECHASE PARK OPENS SEASON TODAY The bugle will sound tho flrat call 1 today's! George (V Steeplechase Park Coney Island when that amusement place opens for the season Many of the prominent city end State officials have been Invited to attend Three bands of music have been engaged for the season to furnish concert murio and a Jasa orchestra will furnish the music In tho ball room Tho park will bo open on each Sunday afternoon from now on until tho middle of May when the regular season gets under way THE FLATBUSH The bill of Keith acta fair tht Flktbuah Theater thlq week will Include Lillian Shaw with a group of eonge Bully and Houghton In conge and dances Archer and Balford in "Tho New Janitor" Bertram and Saxton In "Sunny Southern Smiles" and Young and April In- Tho 'screen feature will bo Charles Kay In hla latest comedy drama "The Old an adaptation of the poem by James Whitcomb Riley Old Hole" Is a story of small town boyhood and girlhood days The balance of the program will Include "The Invisible Voice" which sings during tha overture and Intermission at every performance during the week assisted by tha Flat-busk Theater Orchestra a new Issue of of the Day" the latest release of tho Flatbuah Kowa Pictorial and appropriate musical ee lection by the Flathuih Theater Orchestra Sunday matinee begin as usual at 1:11 pm Her successes wilh cast IncludlnX-jjrtJt -and Jack SAIMsAtf 1 lilt Ollt 0 alflkf comedy "Jut Out thm features the features LOEWS METROPOLITAN Mae Murray tn a story of gaj 'New York lire called Gilded will be tha big Areen feature alt this week at Metropolitan Theater Mia Murray haa the part of a eensy tlonal dancer who la tired of Jier gay Ufo and desires to marry and settle down Her supporting cast includes Lowell Sherman and Charles Gerard The vaudeville program will be changed Monday and Thursday a usual with "A Timely A musical comedy in lira scenes Qieads the bill Monday Tuesday and Wednesday Others will be Fisher and JJoyd Ann Warden and Stewart Doncourt In a comedy aklt 1 Ryan and Weber and Kary and Eary A special feature on Thursday night will be the personal appearance of Mae Murray tq connection with the "Gilded at about Belaya son of the ex-Prosident of Xlcaragoa and a concert pianist and' Valda and company dancers will be on the vsudcville bill from Thursday to Sunday Murray he ir JJ JOt lady" will pi" Daniels In "Duck gjt'-be shown 1 Nuemc RrD-lJ SlPatj4 Vts The Majestic eerts thiaftcrnooa Nat Nusarro a 1 combines comedy pair of plckaninnw THEATER "Hla Brother's Keeper" will be the screen feature at Theater be-ginning tomorrow It la paychte-mya-tery drama bated upon the question whether on man can compel another by the farce of mental suggestion to murder third man Havrinan'e Anl-fah ton ihe vaudeville program Buried Treasure" featuring Marion DavU-- will be shown beginning LION Tha Mask and Wig Club of tha University of Pennsylvania will rive lta annual performance la the MetropoU-tan Opera House next Tuesday evening "Somebody's Lion' la the name of thle year's show It la by Edwa-d tm-Vino It will be played of counts uni- by the undergradqate of the and Bubbles i With Pr prims donna: Rwdle Burt Krai Perue the -I1 TOrK-S of the Vi Thursday Fusees Du I crafty oo-aSk 10 Rbu bill.