Variety (October 1921)

Friday, October M, IMl LEGITIMATE NEWS OF IHE DADJES LydU Lipkowakt, •Merry Widow* mitmr !• •uin# Samuel Boheppt, Inc., XkT iewaUi and fun b«lonsinf to her rnd Talued at |lt7.0»0. Soheppa Jinired In tlie Becker oaee and ia a eweler at 1S7I Broadway. Mma. pkowska eaye she borrowed from Mm on valuable etonee. but had tr, iMty a bonuf, and bo the loam wt% i«eorded as ealea and options vItmi ^«r to rebuy. She wants tbepe •'pretended ealea*' set aside. Roscoe Arbuokle'8 attorneys have Mcured from Virginia Warren, Chi- cago nurse, an amdavit expected to Aid materially the indicted come- dian. Miss Warren testifies that she Had known Virginia Rappe since liias Happe was fourteen years old, At which time the dead Klrl was In a delicate condition and suflTeping from Revere bladdor trouble which made her violent and impelled her to tear off her clothoti. The affldavit Is supported by one from Mrs. Jose- phine Hoss (then Mrs. Fogarty), In whose house Miss Rappe was at- tended by Miss Warren at that time (1W8). Cornell. University Medical Col- Itge. First avenue and 27th street, has established a pay clinic where specialists' advice can be obtained at $1 n visit. It begins Nov. 1. This bridges the gap between char> Ity clinics and the heavy charge? for private calls on specialists. The best of these are serving at small galnries. Telephone Madison Square »26. An explosion echoed through the whole TIme.s Square district at 1 a nt. Monday morning, lifting cars and taxicabs in the tracks and br<'al{ing windows. No trace of what caui^efl it could bo found. It was thought some obstacle mary have droi>ped from the cnr under which the exj^loslcn occurred Into the elec- tric cable Blot. AIho It was said a husre Packnnrcont'Alnlnt? four men had Htopppd nrnr just before and a man from the cw plaoe<l somolhinif on ihv track. - ,^.f«'our men were caught burgling •khe Clinton street theater Monday niornlnf?. rios;(i<-; them arrests in- cluded a man and woman standing outside whom the police ancused as lookouts. The man was Harry Ro- fo.vkv. watchman for the theater. - i — — Wagenhals A Kemper, together with Gilbert Miller. wlU prp«ent •The Bat" ftt the St. .Tamos, Ixindon. not later than Jan. 31. After a prize contest bringing 7,000 letters, Oliver Morosco will rename "Walt Till We're Married" ••Oh! Marion.*' the first title In- tendf-d. .Tohn RIngling has advi.sed his Bridgeport ciuarlers to propTre the kid top tent for shipment to John D. Rockefeller's estate at Tarry town. Under It .Tohn Oolden will Klve n •pedal performance of ''Thank Tou" for the millionaire. This Is a successful pres.s stunt to introduce to Mr. Rockefeller the educative value of the theater. Princess ftava-Oolu, author. Is advance agent here for the tour of the Queen of Roumanla. and a good one if the encomiums of the report- ers are to be believed. The princess has made a great hit with them." Panic following a slight fire In the basement of Moss' Regent was averted by quh;k work on the part of Manager Joseph O'Neill and his ushers, who reassured the audience of 1.000 Into leaving quietly. It took ton minutes to extlngui.«!h, and 'there .was more smoke than lire. Lady .loan Capcll Is coming here. She In the daughter of the dowager Countess of Essex and granddaugh- ter on her mother's side of Beach Grant of New York. Talented as an amateur actress, she hna plven the Impression she in cro«:siiiK to work a« a model in TjUcIHo's. At the Friars dinner to lilm Oct. 23 Sir Harry Lauder pleaded for an Anglo-American understanding. At the Lexington the same evening he Was presented with a silver cup by the S.ottish Clans in America. By m.Trrylng liig mother-in-law, Oeorge E. Bldor, 44 yenrs old. of Cedar l{ai)i(ls, Iowa, became prand- fathcr of hi.s own .'*lx ehildifii He ^as divorced recently fr(jm his ^^'ife'a daughter. Mnry (Jarden returned from Eu- 'opp la.st week »|>ort!ng a cine and With lior hair bobbed She had her Usual tld-bit for tlie reporters, this time tljo prediction madt? by an as- iS?,'""*''' ^^*'' •'^'>*'' ^vollI(l m.iiry in 19-1. Afirr b 'in>r t;»!d rumoj-H ron- cerniiiir tlie sep.iration of Mr. and *^'»H. Tfaiold K McK'ormIck (both are c<»nne.'tod with the m MMtietJieiit of the (ijic.iRo Opera) »he dis- *'ii?'-.Mi iivnria^c in tlie ab.-.tr.i t. jiu' j.rinia <liva admitted i; wi.s a '^»iin< Hit thing to decide about '^r Stratr^n, the staK»»-denoun<'ins: PSHtor of r;,i>flry CMiureh. Is li ivini? iblfv \aHh deacon, U. Scy- ckley\is bringing a dam- and for MMUilt Tba brothera moum tho deaoon of propoalnr marrlaco to tbtir glstor. thouch Im to alroady married. Tho doaoon sajra ho la foiiic to suo hla wife for dlvoroa. Thojr haro been aoparatod, aad ho •art be boUeved her dead. Geno Buck haa written tho IttIoo and Dave Stamper tho mualo for tho now Midnight FroUo. XiOon Br- rol win otaco it Federal Jvdfo Juliua M, Maver ruled last week it waa Ulogal to ablp liquor from one countrr to another acroaa tho Unltod States. If hla de- cision is auBtainod nrohlbitlon acenta aajr it will out off a biff il- legal aupply oatensibly atolon while In transport from Canada to Hezloo. The body of John Daniel, RIngling circua gorilla, has been stuffed and mounted for the Museum of Natural History. Russell a. Colt, husband of Ethel Barrymore, and hla brother. In their suit to break their "father's will, charge that the rubber multi-mil- lionaire was of unsound mind when he signed this will In 1917 and was unduly InlTuenced to sign It. Who brought the alleged Influence to bear is left unnamed. It is also as- serted by the petitioners that it is not the last will and testament signed by Colonel Colt. Mrs. Abel C. Thomas, formerly in vaudeville. Is suing her husband, an attorney living at the Yale Club, for divorce, asking $150 a week and 12.000 counsel fees. He isued her last spring, naming 'her chauffeur, but the iury exonerated her. » Lotta Walsh, confidential clerk under his predecessor, 1ms handed her resignation to Prohibition Di- rector Yellowley, malting the third resignation since he took charge. William T.. .Terome. spealclnrr In fnvor of Fusion and Its can<lldatr for Mayor, has added j'onHiderable color and excitement to the cam- paign against Hylan durinp the last week. Alexander Smith Coehran won a $37.50 Judgment ngain.st his wife, Mmc. Canna Walska. in hl« suit to recover tho cost of furniture re- moval. This is one of his several suits against her. Marjorle Rambeau last week bought 411 East 57th street for a homo. It (bordcra on Sutton place, where Miss Anne Morgan. Mrs. W. K. Vandcrbilt. Jr., and others have recently moved. Miss Rambeau's home is a three-story hou.s^e. Lydia Lipkowska will leave the cast of "The Merry Widow" for a single night in December to sing the tltlo role In "The Snow Maiden" for the Chicago Opera Co. Capt. Everett Butterfleld. now in "Main Street." has announced his engagement to marry Miss Leah May of Augusta, Ga. Maurice Invited Dr. .Tohn Roach Straton to witness him dancing with Leonora Hughes, but Dr. Straton did not accept nor answer the invitation, telling newspaper men that "dancing must be funda- mentally wrong in that It necessi- tated the hugging of both sexes." Dorothy Irving of "Tho Love Let- ter" shot herself below the heart Oct. 16 and was taken to the Post Graduate Hospital, where It was announced the shooting was acci- dental. According to her sister, the accident occurred while Miss Irving was visiting In the apartment of her fiance, Frank Craig. Various unconfirmed reports of a quarrel got In circulation following an appar- ent attempt to keep the matter from general knowledge by making no report to the i>olIce. Craig denies an engagement. Rep. the Russian wolfhound pet of Patrleln. daughter of Rillie Rurke and F. Zlegfeld. Jr., is lost, and the producer is offering a reward for the animal's return bprnusr* hi."^ daughter is disconsolate over her loss. more toour cll»5"^l againfc William H. anc ^*^«l;o Bowker m WoodcUflC N. J, The nnntial election of th«» I^nmbs resulte<l in the ch(»ice of A. O. Hrown to .succeed R. IT. Rinnri.le as .'-Shepherd. Mr. 'Rrowii is m imprcr of the TM.Tvhoiise. Oth'M's ei(>rted were Fritz "Wi'linms. llov; Charles .\. Stevenson, corresponding serr*»- ♦ary: Flwin Milton Royle. record- incr secretary; TTenrv Smifli. treas- urer: .T. ('l.trence Hvd*». librarian. Tl)e diit'( tors <'bosen were A M IVicir^' I'titilc Ci^e .Tiwepb U Ci'i^- ?ner. ^'I'or-re TTo^vMl. TTenrv V. Al- len K-l'TiiiP'T l^•.•<>c:r^ TT.i TV .'^V Ti'- 'mdr<\ riirnel Prntt and "Win ! '■ iniM::. T\v.''\«' ni<*iMni'i)i ! e.iu'li* in rifv-nv. i'll \'il' H'f. \*J'"r M'ci-o \i :ni ei.!-' 'fi'" '^f ?fr r-n .'»'•'> ♦<> form ;i sr.rr-fal f virbit it Hi. If.-iVb TVcpo- olfion at 1)1-' Cvand Cntial PiliC' berlnnhm Nov 14. Prohibition sc.indals broke fast and furious last week, beginning with tho arreat of Samuel Albrecht 16 OUT-OF-TOWN THE MAN'S NAME Waahlngton, Oct. 26. It takoa aomething more akin to play craftamanahip rather than mere playwritlng to take the old and rather worn eternal triangle and {»roaent it in a manner to grip the nterest aa did "The Man's Name," whloh A. U. Woods presented for its first showing at the Oarrick here. Eugene Walter, in collaboration with Marjorle Chase, tella the story ot a wife that loved her husband more than bar honor, for when that hus- band waa near death aho aold her- aelf for the money to Ulco him West. where his health could bo given l>Aek to him. An afterthought brings home the possibility that possibly all credit should not go to Mr. Walter and Miss Chase. For had It not been for Lowell Sherman aa the husband, whose performance waa truly re- markable, would the play have held aa it dldr Beginning with the usual home life contentment of the man that knows of his wife's love, and because of that love has regained his health as well aa having success come to him, Mr. Sherman builds up a characterization of the over- wrought man whose suspicions grad- ually bring forth the blunt confes- sion from his wife that she sold herself to save him, that is bril- liant In conception and intcnso in its sincerity. For some seven or eight years Marshall Dunn, a publisher of (Continued on page 26) BROADWAY REVIEWS of Baltimore, charged with bribery. The local enforcement director. K. C. Yellowley. let it be known $100,- 000 had beun offered him. but the specific charge was offering $200 to a subordinate. Yellowley continued his 9lean-up work by dismissing ten agents for untruthful reports. Next appeared Agent R. Q. Merrltt from Carolina wUh a record for grabbing moonshlne/a. Colncldentally CharlcH J. Steinberg, treasurer of the Re- liance DiHtributing Co., was charged with use of stolen permits. in I*hiladclphia Oct. 20 warrants were l.«<sue(^ for the arrest of Assi.Htant Director A. F. Hlater and Hiram Wil.'^on Renner, chief of permits, William C. McConnell, State Di- rector, then admitted he had be.^n "negligent and derelict" In hla duties In permitting 125,000.00) worth of liquor to be withdrawn from bond In a short time. RIGHT TO STRIKE RllMh*th Catherine Rolior Dr. Miller David Torrotico Dr. lOric Miller, hla iton »tliuyler White Miry Miller (lipBy O'Drlen Hoau Ormerod Cynthia Latham Dr. WrlKley Edmond Ix>wp (.lordon Muntairuf Hurry Mo.stayor "Tubby." medical student. .V. R. Beecruft "8ld«>y," medical student. Leslie R. Benaon Dr. Donald Nevin Clarl< Hvn Urmerod Ronald Adair Walter Dewhurst. M. P...acorKe E. RIddell .Sir Roffer IMIkinffton Uyron Kuosell Mr. James John H. Hrcwar Alfred Fletcher Wutson. K. C, M. P.. K. W. l^ceby BorlH Thomashefsky, the Yiddish Impresario, was named this week in a 1100.000 New York Supremo Court Kult by Slgmund Zuckenberg, a composer, who charges alienation of Mrs. Zuckenberg's nffectlons. Th* latter is known as the "YiddlRh Tettrazini." and has played under Thom.ashefsky's management. Chicago's newest Photoplay Thea- tre Is scheduled to open October L' ;. The house, situated on State street, between Lake and Randolph, seats fi.OOO and has been two years In construction at a reported cost nf $4,000,000. Norma Talmadge's "The Sign on the Door" will bo the open- ing attraction, preceded by a spec- tacular pageant of Chicago's progress. Henry Kolker, director of George Arllsa' "Disraeli," sailed for Italy on the Aqultania Tuesday to make a picture for Bmest Shlpman's Ital- ian associatoa. Charles Hampden, an actor who apneared with Jane Cowl, and his wife arrived at Ellis Island this week on the White Star steamer, the Arabic, and waa released after a temporary detention on account of passport difficulties. They had spent the summer at their vIlLa on tho Island of Capri and had sailed from Naples minus the regulation pass- ports except for a consulate's offi- cial notation, on the promise the government would forward one by mail, which wa^ not done in time. Harry Fox, comedian and hus- band of one of the Dolly twins Is the latest thespian recruit to the bankruptcy ranks. His liabllitlft; total 117,777, and no assets. Mrs. Kenneth Harlan (Flo Hart), who is suing her husband for di- vorce, has herself been named in a suit brought by Mrs. Arthur I.«evy against her husband. Sleeping Partners Co, Tne, I.h suing Kdna (loodrleh. who took the show on tour for it.s shares of tlu- receipts. 15 per cent. It ullegos sh<' played to $70,000 and gave it oiilv $900. Cleneral Diaz has sent to K. I'. Albee a telci^ram thanking bira f«»r lii.s work In orumizlng tin.* (Jver.stas l\nt<-i't.iiii!n<'nL l..«'ague. r\ril A. Carroll, son of tlir ] >{>■ Tannn.iTiy If ill leader, is IjoiiiK hu- il b.\- ne('<.\' i:()ss for $7.''i.O(jO MH a r«- .<;ult nf jin .'iltrir.i tion la.^f ounirn«'r in wlii'-li Mi.«<s I{o.«s allefivs .'^Ik; wa** b.'idiy beattn up by hirn. Supcrllcially "The Right to Strike is a discussion of the social and ethical aspects of a strike of doctors as a class in self-defense against a strike of workingmen. That is the surface phase, in its fundamentals the moral goes much deeper and argues that all war (or all strife, for that matter) is destructive, and the only possible, liveable working so- cial system Is one of social co-opera- tion. This powerful play, written by Krnest Hutchinson, produced in England and brought to America by Richard Walton Tutly with an ad- mirable cast of players. Is destined to provoke an ocean of discussion unil Contention. It will be labeled capitalistic propaganda and social- istic teaching. As a matter of fact, it Is neither. It is not at all social- istlc. No more Is It oapltallstic. It Is pure humanitarian, and probably its theme touches upon the deepest chord in human thought The story and the characters are British, but the idea la no more Engp llsh than It is Czccho-Slovaklan. It is as broad as humanity and. If there is any grain of truth in the new theories of psychology, any audience anywhere will react to It forcibly. The tnlng is as universal as "Romeo and Juliet" in Its appeal. Home wise man somewhere not long ago voiced this truism: "Self- preservation is not the llrst law of nature. Rather the first law of na- tive is the perpetuation and pre- servation of his kind." That might be set down as the theme and cubic (content of "The Right to Strike." set forth In dramatic terms, which. In tho rough, are there: The 200 railroad workers of the only railroad which supplies the community of Valleyhead, Lanca- shire, England, have declared a strike and hnv« cut off the valley from food supply. The leads** of the striking workmen is Den Ormero 1, whose wife Rose, in the language of the play, Is "near her time." The strike works great harduhip upon the people of the community who are shut off from food necessities. So the middle class leaders organize a system of motor transport (It is Just aftor the war). The railroad men see in this move the possibili- ties of defeating their object and, under the advice of an imported lal>or leader of more or less Hol- shevist tendencies, bomb a motor lorry driven by a young doctor of V.illeyhead, newly returned from the war with his brido of a few months. The doctor's father, himself a phy- sician, and his friends, likewise of the medical profession, organise a strike of doctors, as a reprisal, on tho theory that a group of workmen have brought on a class war and they will reply in like terms. No doctor will attend any striking rail- roadman nor his family, and the social principle involved la argued back and forth several times In a series of scenes of fine dramatic strength. A labor leader from Lon- don is brought into the compromise meetings; a member of Parliament become Involved. The doctors' strike has become so national an issue that an official of the national medical fraternity is called In. Class hate and rivalry, aoclal theory, self-interest and rivalry of self-interest wage the battle of the council room, which, aa happena, la the local inflrmary. No compromise can be brought about. While the contest la at Its highest a messenger enters hurriedly to bring newa that Ben'a wlf» has been taken to child- bed. The doctors will not move at flrst until the oldest of them sacri- fices his aoclal princlplea and goes to attend the mother. Rut he Is too old and too unnerved to perform the necessary operation upon the mother, who Is likely to die with her child. No one is within call except the skillful young surgeon who led the striking doctors, and who was most bitterly bereaved by the death at the hands of the striking railroad men of his friend and associate. Tiie last of the four acts takes place in tho humble living room of the workman's cottage where tho young mother is In travail In a <:hami)er off to one side. It is an let of tiemerirlou.s tiramatlc tension and powrrful emotional appeal. Will tiie >(»uiig .^iiru»-on abandon his so- « I'll ]irin(iple.s .iiid his bitter resent- ment atc.iln.st tho men lie holds re- .siKjii.viii,],. for Ills friend's death? The .>^iir>,'eoM appears, but at fist <li'- ( liin M to act, and the moral and hn line, broad dignity about the sta^e lirr^Liii.itiou tliat drives home tlie ilrani.i with teriiflc force and gives vast emphasis to its emotional ap- peal. The Hamo is true of the whole play, which Is a strong dramatic pre.sontation of a very deep and moving human situation. The play is splendidly done by a cast singularly even, Ronald Adair apparently is an Englishman, and a strong, sincere actor as Ben Orme- rod, the labor leader, an especially rich and sympathetic character crea- tion. Gypsy O'Brien plays the young „ I wife and widow with a tine sense of comedy and grace in its earlier pas- sages and a splendid emotional touch In the laat act. Edmond Lowe and Schuyler White were manly Juvenllea aa tha two young doctora, while Harry MeaCayer. aa tha ao- clalistio imported labor leader, gave another of his smooth performancea, although the character waa new In kind for him. This brief comnent docs not do justice to half a dosen of the other players, who made fine sharp sketchoa of aa many charac- ter types all working Into an almost perfect atage illusion. Rush, THE6.S0 U'^^IS Rcstnald Barlow Dan Taylor Leonard Wllley Hester ...? Lillian Albertaon Steward Harold Uaal^ Walter Wllbor Coi UaatoB Hedfw >ymiam T. Hajra Marie Loulae Hall LlUlafi Rom Knn fleymovr Hssel Tdnier GhrMloa Palmar LolIU Hobarleoo Mark RaUierford. ..Joha fiarkyl 4iin Armatronc B. Maatreli fleli Bob Marshall Harrj Kaapp Lea Ktigel aponaora thla alncera and entertaining comedy by Kato McLaurin at the Hudson, but tha presence in the audience of Adolpb Zukor and hla oohorta auggeata a Famoua Interest In It At any rate. It is a real play with its picture value very evident, though In the bat^kground. If deeper thought had been, bent upon the concert alnger'a part Interpreted by Lollta Robert- son and Ita posslblUtiea fully realised, tha play would have hit Broadway right between tha •eyc'k. The story ia almple. A young couple. Dan Taylor and hla wife. Hester, have left town Ufa to look after the old folka on tha farm, but the continual drudgary waara on both; The man kaapa allant. the girl complains.f Tha old grand- father. In a comedy part, developa the atmosphere agalnat which both contend. All their Intaraat in' life ceniera about tha nightly paaalng of the 6.50. "If aomathlng would only happen!" crlaa Heater, and the 6.GO is wrecked. ' The second sceno of the flrst act on board the dining car paaaea at the same time aa tne flrst acene In the farm house, ending alao with tho wreck. Full of comedy. It serves to Introduce the fact of a 9-years' dead love affair between the concert singer and Ruth^ford. who meets her on the train. Know- ing this, the stage la aet for the conflict In the second act in which the wife, Hester, listens to the whispering encouragement of Ruth- erford and after a harsh word from the husband keeps a rendesrous on the hillside, little knowing the. con- cert singer la keeping watch' over her Innocence. In the last act we And the wife determined to leave on the repaired 6.10. and the husband's flrst violent Impulse to do murder restrained by tha singer who ex- plains she, too. grew up on a fafm and that certain considerations are due his wife. But the wife In the end comes back—she could not bring herself to go. The part of Christine Palmer khould have been built up till It glowed. While Miaa Robertson makes something of it. she plays It too simply, with too little regard for Its theatrical possibilities. Beau- tiful hands, a resonant voice, count in her favor, however, white Lillian Albertson, returning to tlie stage, played with simplicity and a oulct. convincing Intensity. As a little school girl, Lillian Ross made her brief moments count, and Leonsrd Wllloy, a new leading man, brought poise and the assurance of a worth- while future to his Impersonation. Harold Ilealey. Wilbur Cox and William T. Hays got something out of bits, while Reginald Barlow, aa tho old man, scored In one of those obvious old-man parts with every angle heavily shadowed, the sort of role that always makes the un- initiated p(»p-eyed with wonder FiDELlfirS^CbNCERT Last Sunday night marketl the first of a series of monthly cone rta to be given by the Actors' Fldillty League at the Henry Miller during the season. The Fidelity Sund.iy shows last year were InviCit inn af- fairs. ncKinniiiR with Inst Sunday an adml.ssion of |2 top became <<f- f« -tive. The llisl hhow was diH.ip- |)». inline W ilh the lar^e injml^< r of stars li.strd ariuinr; t 1m? Fidelit.\ m« m- rniTi JH.mje l.s nrcued by the widowed; bersblp it wonjd .-eem a nmcb b< t T-'iiiil I <1" Soria. prima d<Miiia rif •The ()I'.ri<n Clirl," lia.w called on the police to recover her stolen Jewelf! and $50 given a man alleging himself to be a lawyer named Wlll- iama. who promiaed their raturn. moment of the fln.Tl curtain tb' liealing Instinct wins ovi-r the c\,\hh hatred and the surKeon i;oes to llie r( MCIK'. Ali these me«li( il d< tails ini^lit be expected to engender a feeling of resentment. Nothing could be fur- ther from tha truth, Thara ia a wife f>f bis dead frl«nd until at the ter perfoininnro could l)a\» been rirrrincrrd. Of the trn r>roKiam«'d ac'- ;•!] but wiic. Lou Jam kett. appiarid. Ameli.i r>iiii;hani. a.s.si.Mted by V'rank Sylves- ter. JCobetl V'nii|;lin, Celeste Arthur and Irene M'smAr, pr»*ser)tin': "Catherine, Kmpress 4f Russia," w% , (Continued on Q;>aga Mi ^ j;j \^ L / —. J*^ MJ^