Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, July 22, 1916, Night Extra, Amusement Section, Image 7

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Scouting
Round in
Burlesque
Moll
Williams on the
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Trail of Recruits All
Summer
By ROBERT W. MAXWELL
A row of swinging, stepping, singing and
perspiring chorus girls swayed back nnd
forth on the stage of the Gayety Theatre
one night this week, shouting out the words
of tha most recent song, while a sweltering
audience clapped Its moist hands In nppre-
( elation of their strenuous efforts. They
meaning the chorus girls were hard at
, work as wo stepped In to "take a look at
tho house." Wo didn't know what thoy were
Blnglng nnd didn't care. A'l we noticed
was that tho dancing damsels were clad In
hot-weather attire, nnd, even at that, they
Ecemcd to bo suffering from tho heat
But the audience didn't care. Every
man nnd woman In the place was enjoying
tho burlesque they call It "burlcsk" thero
-and after the number was finished a roar
of npplauso called the singer and- support
ing company back again. They went
through tho same motions, porsplred just as
freely, nnd the damp, soggy applauso onco
moro was their reward. Then tho leader
of tho orchestra started his hirelings on a
new tune, and another Btunt was about to
bo presented.
We looked around at this Juncture and
noted that at the end of ono of the back
aisles was a fashionably clad girl, seated
all nlono, with her chin rostlng on her hand.
Blio was taking In. the show, seemed to see
everything that was going on, but did not
join In tho applause. She did not chango
her position when tho next number was
, put on, nor did sho smile at any of tho
"funny stuff" pulled by tho comedians. Sho
Just sat and absorbed everything llko a
high-brow attending tho opera.
"You have a pretty good audience to
night," wo remarked to Manager Howard,
"but did you notice the girl on that aisle?
Bho seemed to be enjoying herself, but Isn't
getting excited about It. What's tho an
swer. Do you know her?"
"Why, Bure I know her," replied How
ard. "You will, too, when I tell you her
r.amc. That rs Molllo Williams, the Queen
-f Burlesque. Sho pays us a visit onco a
your during her vacation nnd sho usually
nt ay a a couple of days. She takes In all
of tho summer shows, cabarets and every
thing else that has singing nnd music. It's
tho way she spend her vacation. Did you
vcr meet her? Como over and I'll Intro
duce you."
Then I met Mollle Williams. Miss Wil
liams seemed to be anything but the
''queen" I expected to see. Sho was a
small, dainty girl, had a pleasing person
ality which probably accounts for her
success on tho stage and seemed to be
qulto serious. Sho wan "working," she said,
and would keep on tho Job until August 7,
when her nw,show starts rehearsing for
tho coming season.
"It seems strange that you are spending
your vacation In such a manner," I ven
tured. "I thought theatrical folks rushed
to the mountains, tho seashoro and the
country during tho summer months to rest
up for tho long 40 weeks' grind during tho
fall, winter nnd spring. Is this a usual
thing, or nro you Just trying It out this
Bummer?"
"I do this every summer," replied Miss
Williams. "You see, I virtually manage
my own show and It Is up to me to get new
talent. You can't expect the rea actors
and actresses to come to you, so I just go
to them. If I see a performer In one of the
summer shows that strikes my fancy. I
try to sign him or her up for my show. In
that way I have found many good people.
"You are a baseball writer," she contin
ued, "and probably know the Bystem. What
do they do In the big leagues when they
need a new player? Do they put an 'ad'
In the paper and then watt for replies?
They do not. They send some one out to
take a look at ball players playing all over
the country and as soon as a promising
youngster Is seen he Is signed up and sent
to the big team for a try-out Those people
are called baseball scouts. I, too, am a
scout a scout for burlesque.
"It seemes funny, but I got the Idea of
electing my own talent for the stage
right here In Philadelphia. About four
years ago, during a world's series. I was
presented to Captain Harry Davis, of the
Athletics. I only saw him for a short time,
and the chances are that he forgot me five
minutes aiier ne mei me. uut l nad a
short talk with him and he gave me the
Idea of 'scouting for myself.
"'How does It happen,' I asked, that
your team plays Just as good every day'ln
the year and year after year? Don't the
players get hurt, or play poorly, or some
thing? How do you replaoe your stars?
What kind of understudies have you got,
and how do you get .them? You must have
some system.' .
"Then he told me how scouts travel all
over tho country looking for new talent, and
I decided to try It myself.
"The very next year, I decided to put on
a dramatlo aketah and was In need of a
straight heavy' man to play It with me. I
looked over all of the 'legits' In New York,
but they were a very sad bunch and I passed
them up. It was getting close to the opening
of the season, and I was almost frantic
tou Know, mere are rew legits' that Is,
those Shakespearean actors In burlesque
and I was about to visit Brady or Frohman
to get one of thejr regular actors for the
part when I saw an advertisement In the
paper that a Western melodrama, called
Wyoming. or soma such name, was playing
In a theatre In Brooklyn.
"That nTght I attended tho show, for I
thought that there -would be at least one
Western character who could Oil the bill.
To my surprise, there were six of them, all
dressed up In cowboy attire. I did not
think much of the leading man, but there
was one in the cast who struck my fancy.
He did not say a word during the show, but
Continue! on Fare Two of (hi
Section
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Discussed Questions
Answered
In the hurry and press of the Scenario
Contest a good many letters on other photo
play and dramatlo matters have been re
ceived, but have not been printed or an
swer owing to lack of space.
To the Photoplay Editor:
Further comment on tho article by Bain
bridge Colby In a recent Issue of the
Eve.vino Lr.Dacn will show that tho fllm
manufacturers are doing more than com
plying with the rules of tho Board of Cen
sors, Incidentally striving to please with
wholesome. Interesting "stuff," as might be
gathered from some of the subjects barred
by the scenario editors, to wit:
WHAT IS NOT WANTED Trnglo and
depressing stories nnd those with unpleas
ant endings: stories of vice, crime, drugs
or of brutality; questions of sex, divorce,
religion, liquor, labor or politics; military
or historical drnmas; comedies that ridicule
society or labor, business or college life ; dual
roles; costume or period plays; or plays of
foreign locale; copyrighted stories, boiks,
poems or plays; plots taken from copy
righted text; for counterfeits are usually
recognized and returned, 'Otherwise trouble
will result for producer and author.
WHAT IS WANTED Novel plots, ori
ginal Ideas and epitomes, peculiarly synop
ses without "action"; strong American
stories plays for Ingenue and male stars;
comedy and modern dramas: society dramas
and melodramas; wen-known books and
plays In publlo domain. There seems to be
a general trend toward "widespread popu
larity and universal appeal."
ANONYMOUS.
Te ti Dramatto Editor:
Sir You published In a recent Amuse
ment Section of your paper a scathing
criticisms of tho play "Sazus MaTazus,"
written by Laurence Eyre and given Its
premiers In Atlantic City on June 26.
I am forced to take Issue with your At
lantlo City correspondent In his opinion
of the play, as I happened to be present at
the opening performance; and, although I
bold no brief for the author. It was the
consensus of opinion of those with whom I
talked that he had not only attempted
something most unusual, but had succeeded
in "putting It aoroea."
In these days or cut-and-drled so-called
comedy It la a real treat to see a play
which attempts something new, and al
though, as Is so Invariably the case, this
particular offering needed some revision, It
certainly, to my mind, had possibilities and
hardly merited the severe condemnation by
Mr, Watt who evidently has failed com
pletely to understand the delicious negro
philosophy with which the play abounds.
A READER.
To the Photoplay Bdttort
Sir Will you kindly answer through your
columns how the addresses of the different
motion-picture companies may' be obtained?
Also what company does Charlie Chaplin
act for and are his pictures given out by
contract or may one not connected with the
staff writs scenarios for him I
H. V, L. K.
Tou will find a complete list In last Satur
day's Amusement Section and In the pages
of the Photoplay Magaslne.
Charlie Chaplin works for the Mutual,
through tho Lone Bfar Company, ' The
scenarios for his pictures are largely his
own work, with possibly some assistance
from a -staff writer. lie might, however,
buy some very original idea for a comedy.
To the Photoplay Editor:
Sir Censorship Is not needed In these
days of high-class motion pictures, and It
pay men who do not know as much about
censoring a picture as a little child of 3
or i years old doe. Who has to stand
the cost? The publlo and the.exhlbltor are
both out of pocket The publlo because It
sees some of the best scenes cut out just
to please the puritan censors, and the exhi
bitors who have to stand the added ex.
pens, of shelling out mora money for th.
State coffers. It might have been all right
in the day of the blood and thunder pic
tures, when companies sprang up fa the
fly-by-nlght plan. Their pictures were not
fit to be iwen by children, and were respon-
CftotUoti ea Fata Xwa U Hit aitiUa
Euenmg
THEY FEAR NO
ANOTHER LUMINARY
MADE IN
PHILLY
It's not at all surprising that Adelo Has
san Tvna the admiration of every one who
h ju ftay jd the stage or In a photo
graph. Fhlladel-
phlans will have
the opportunity to
pny homage next
week, when Miss
Hassan makes
her first profes
sional appenranco
In her homo city
with "Slado In
Phllly" at Keith's
Theatre.
Miss Hassan Is
a Philadelphia
girl, only 10 years
old, and her un
usual success in
her first effort In
an important role
has not spoiled
her In the least
OK stage she Is
oodMt, unassuming, wholesome young
woman, who simply accepts her good for
tune and Is honestly glad It has come to
her. Miss Hassan very frankly admits
that she loves her work, and la dalii-ht.
fully happy for the opportunity to appear
with "Made In Phllly" In her home city.
"Victor Herbert Is really responsible for
my going on the stage," said Miss Hassan.
"I have been deeply Interested In amateur
operatla and concert circles In Philadelphia
for some time. I am a member of the
Philadelphia Operatic Society, and when we
put on 'The Serenade,' Mr. Herbert came
over from Now York to direct tho re
hearsala. He seemed to like my voice and
my acting, and when 'The Only airl' was
produced, Mr. Herbert Induced Mr. Weber
to give me a part I eang for Mr. Herbert
Mr. Weber and Mr. Blossom and they were
good enough to say that I had a future
and that they would give me my first
chance.
"A rather curious coincidence is the fact
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much a New York, can produce its own "merry merries." What's more, according to the Evening:
J-eogi? photographer, tha chorus is Just as well 8UppUs4 St, cars,
AMUSEMENT SECTION
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PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JULY
.SHARKS, THESE QUEENS
PEGGY
COUDCAY
UHNERSfll,
I
that my dearest friend In Philadelphia and
fellow member of tho Operatla Society,
Vtvlenno Segal, has only recently scored a
tremendous lilt on the musical stage, and
last week made her first professional ap
pearance In her horns city In 'Made In
Phllly. Wo have been Inseparable friends
for years and I rejoice at her success quite
as much as at my own."
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ICeftger
22, 1916.
OF THE MOVIES
"CHAMPAGNE JAG'
FOR EVERY ONE
WHO LOOKS
Photographlo effects are being given
more nnd mora attention by the producers
of motion pictures, and trick photography
Is. being resorted to to convey Ideas to
audiences, which otherwise might not be
clear.
In tho filming of a photoplay In which
Miss Juno Caprice, tho new William Fox
star. Is soon to appear, Director John Q.
AdolM has originated a new one. Miss
Caprice, In tho character assigned her.
drinks champagne for the first time In her
young life. As a result, her head "goes
round" and she not only sees double, but
triple.
Tho audience will see Miss Caprice drink
tho champagne In reality, harmless white
grape Juice and then It Is going to see
exactly what she sees triple. The furni
ture and persons in the room are photo
graphed thrice and the fllm patched to
gether so that on viewing the ploture
everybody Is going to "see things" with
Mss Caprice.
In another scene an old woman, a char
acter part In the film story, comes to the
doorway to meet the hero, Harry Hllllard.
Tho woman Is wearing old-fashioned "epeo
tacles," which are pushed up on her fore
head. She looks closely at Hllllard and
the movie audience will see him Just as she
does the blurs of poor eyesight This Is
dona by photographing with tha camera
out ot focus. When tha old woman pulls
her "specs" down, the camera Is focused
properly and Mr. Hllllard appears In all his
manliness.
Another new feature In motion pictures
la a scene In which Miss Caprice Is gat
ing out of a window on a moonlight night
The audience looks with her, and the moon
and star: and tree-tops In silhouette are
seen In reality. This scene was actually
taken at night and Is one of the few mov
ing pictures of starlight In most films the
sun Is used to represent the moon by al
lowing It to "sun-strike" the film and thus
make objects look black as at night
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De Wolf .
Hopper
Logfbook
The Altitudinous Ona
Makes Some Movie
Confessions
From th htnim.tnnlmtn-MA m rTiittf .,,!
come these pages from the diary of De Wdtf
Hopper, u)ho journeyed thero several
.....v v ,,&, kuiiimui ii iuvhi rr
Griffith to act Don Quixote, Falstaff, (Jut.
liver and other characters of literature be
fore the camera. One of his neicett, th4
old actor in "Btranded," toI bo on view at
the Jircadin Xtnnttnu- Thm TTnnnef nt MM-
merou first-night curtain speeches and
after-dinner talks is recognhed in these ran
dom remarks on movie mafclnjr.'
Monday, Morning.
Arrives a blr man at the rats of tha Orlf.
nth studio. Oateman dozing In tha freckly
sunshine under tha trees.
"Name, please r' demands the gateman.
"Just say De Wolf Hopper, V. B. A.," rt
sponds the big man, and Is conducted back
to the studio stage.
Appear Douglas Fairbanks and othat
friends, all of whom the big man greet
like long-lost brothers and slaters.
"IIelloDougl My Gawd, man, what t)M
matter?"
"Why, I'm all right"
"But your color Tou can't be all r!gh
and bo that color."
"That's the make-up-."
"Then you haven't got tho jaundice T But
say, old boy, If I have to go around looking
that color I shall Just pine away and dla
from suggestion.. Hello, Miss War.
(To Helen Ware.) Tou look charming. Tou,
at least, nro clothed In your right mind."
"Tou wouldn't hayo thought so yesterday,
when I was cast up on a desert Island la
Grtfllth Park, and went about clad la
cheesecloth and confusion."
To Orrln Johnson: ''Hello, Orrln, what
aro you In for7"
"Oh, about six weeks, on this ploture, 1
guess. Maybo you'll think It ought to b
a Ufa sentence when you've seen tho plo
ture." "Well, good -by until tomorrow. .By tha
byo, my baby will be out here In a coupla
of weeks'. He's the try greatest kid la
tho world. If I do say so. Learned to say
dada after only ono rehearsal "
Tuesday.
My Gawd, how long will It take me to
get used to these livery looking actors, Z
wonder I How do I feel? Well, not' the
way I look, I promise you that. If I did 2
wouldn't bo here.
And the hours I I get up at 6. Dldnt
know thore were such hours. Tou just begin
to wake up and feel like working, you
know, when you find it's all over and you've
finished for the day. There's only one sat
isfaction you can go down at night and sea
yourself act!
Tes, I like Don Quixote all right. la
fact, I lovo him. But don't you ever fancy
he had an easy time tilting windmills. X
tilted a windmill today. It was' a very
obstinate windmill, tenacious of Its right.
Did you ever havo a windmill In good, health
fly up and hit yoif? Tho reason people,
laugh at Don Quixote Is because they never
tried to stop a windmill when It was on Its
way. "Every windmill In the world can go
on press-agentlng the weather after this for
all of me. Take my advice. Don't yoa
ever hit a windmill first. If you ever set
peeved at a windmill, try kindness an
diplomacy or slow po)son because a wind
mill In full .blast has more advantages la
Its favor than Jack Johnson spanking a
pickaninny.
Wednesday.
Tes, we did some follow-up scenes today.
The director told me to go over and hit a
man. "What for?" I asked. "We've Just
finished an amicable lunch of apple pie and
certified milk, and we're llko brothers. Z
can't go up and hit a man I've just beea
drinking Innocent milk with. My Gawd, thta
Is a cold-blooded business." "But you were
angry at him yesterday," persisted the di
rector. "Well, am I still mad? I dont feal
mua, dui ii you say i am
The motion pictures work In a mysterioua
way their wonders to perform. Yesterday
out on location what do you think I sawT
Another company waa doing something bib
lical. Up drove a sumptuous Flat and out
hopped a couple of Pharisees. Next fol
lowed a humble Ford. It stopped and Johs
the Baptist alighted.
Thursday.
Getting the props for these pictures la
certainly difficult sometimes. I wanted a
helmet today, not a real helmet, but some
thing that would be funny In the pictures.
I told the property man what I wanted, -arut
asked him to bring me a Bridget's Delight,
He smiled and went away. After hunting
all day one of his men came back and said
he couldn't find what I wanted anywhere
In town. "Oh, never mind," I said, "Just
bring me a little dlohpan."
Oot a letter from William Junior's mother
today, and she says he's coming out to find
out If I really do get up In the morning or
send my double over to work. '
Monday,
Out on location at Santa Barbara. Start
ed to work at o'clock this morning anal
waa shot at sundown. No reflection on my
work, the director aald.
Have discovered that the fog up here runa
on schedule. Consult the weather man every
day, and If I find the fog la not due to de
part until 11 o'clock I bury my alarm clock
and stay in bed. Went back to bed In my
make-up one morning. It waa before 1
found out about the schedule, and the cham
bermaid thought I had gone. She came In.
caught one glimpse ot my awful face,
thought I was dead and mortified, and raa
out yelling for a doctor.
By the bye. the director asked mi this
morning whether I wanted a double. "Tea,"
I told him ; "every morning from S to 10."
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