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THE PLAYGOER'S
WEEKLY TALK
Observations on Plays and
Photoplays of Interest
to Philadelphians
TIE season is uow by way of liciiiR
get nud the changes for the new week '
are not so many as wro, of coursn. i
necessary to start theatredom into ac
tivity nftcr the Mtmmcr'tt dearth and tin- '
actors' strike. Thero are three new at '
tractions underlined for the so-calleil !
lftrif (muti lloilfPM. "
JudRinfr by the ppionnel announr'i
for the "Scandals of 11H1V tlic I'm
rest w'll Htnef ulint i n f-tt'iiti'ilh
a dancing show as the Puvlowa troupe ,
or the Jtallet Hiimso, though of u il.f I
fcrcnt sort of dancing Mjcict.v, aero
D8tlc, modern and jazz, instead of the
pas scul, the pantomime ana me more
SsraphiJ interpretation of classic or
stivfe cornnotcr
TJio Walnut will wltnei the debut of '
a new Irish sineinc star. Barry Me-
If UOW iiisu ciuhiHH okt;'. -"".rf "
Connlck, in Wlllard JlacK's uew piece. i," i- ";l nnm m .ihi.uii.-
"Tho Logic of Larry," which is a ' .'" "' ' "' ' " '
comedy, though it does not appear Klints of lane shot thiough Its -H'b.
whether the Milesian hero wears a coun ..' l -k. i iu - u ...i.
tfrpart of the Chauncey Olcott romantic -.Milium in in . om. pti.m oi tl..
maStle, to ultimate possesion of which "droit and brilliant woman in the In
ho Trill doubtless aspire. There is room dlan summer of her romance. Indian
for the development of a new Celtic summer with its tang. lU mellowness
star and Mr McCormick has ns good and above all it high tulnri that are
a chance as any for the stellar honors. ncwr garish.
Fiske O'Hara has not been around for The sparkling brilliamj of ,1,p,'
some seasons, and Andrew Mock's up- Sharp, the brittle high rotncilj r I lie
some seasons, and Andrew Mod. s up-
pcarances go still further back in the
past. Sir. Olcott has passed his prime,
and as he is one of the wealthiest of
MlnF fnlk. doubtless he will, before
many seasons elapse, retire on bis
1 1 .I..Mw.nlro nn.1 snnr TvMl . .
lor..1o unit Khamrocks and enjoy well
won leisure. Mr. McCormick will be
remembered as a comedian with an
easy prescno and a quaint drollery,
who appeared in the two local engage
ments of "Turn to the Right." He is,
like all proper Irish stars, a tuneful
tenor.
The other change of the week will
also itress the two points of race and
newness of stardom. Barney Ilnrnard
.m aA tils nnmo snelt out in bright
,. ii i u .nn.A i tli A.lpl-
JlCniS onove IUC ru"""-' ".-" ..."' ' '
phi. "Tho Hon. Abe Potash" will con- Mr. Uyre, author ot tne comruy
tlnue his activities in the line, of i which delighted audiences at the Broad
'"inuies Kckert Good- So fflK ' derl.ned-New Pieces for Paul
man are.the authors of the play which j-fal "'nci ' 'ereSain lhes ine Frederick and Wallace Reid
SaDavls "t'Surt" protagonUt' ' "the orlginafhousea'nd still holds
sj?m Davis, tliougl. ne Proiagonist original crant of land there.
niAXM y.in! An ifnr It 1
under a different monniky. It seemert
that Mr. Bernard, Who created llie
uart of Potash in "Potash and Perl
mutter," "Potash and Pcrlmutter in
Society," and "Business Before Plea
sure,'' wanted to get away from the
"possibility of being considered a one
play Btar and one-role player and pro
Tailed on the coauthors to give Abe a
different name anyhow. However Abe
Potash would be just as human and
humorous under any other name, even
tho rather unhappy, because unsignify
ing, "Sam Davis," and when Mr. Ber
nard cot under the bkin of the role he
found himself thinkiug In terms of Pot
ash and speaking in terms of Potash
and acting In terms of Potash. The
people on the Itialto told him he was
making a mistake in changing the
trademark label ou his cloak-and-suit
line; as It were, and other people wrote in
this last we hear from tho press agency
department saving how much disap-
"- pointed they were that be was not
coins: to do anotticr rotasn. m tic up
shot of It was, finnlly he said : "Oi, Oi !
Let It be Potash," and what hi been
advertised as "Sam Davis," in this city
for' two weeks past, becomes "Abe
Potash" over the week-end.
Really it did not make any difference
In the world to Messrs. Goodman and
Glass. They bad written a genuine, all
tvool and thirty-six inches wide Potash
und tho only change that had to be made
was rubber stamping "Sam" mit
"Abe" in the script. .
,.M..t.i o" .tin !. ifc .iui . -
li any oi you uenr an occasional ac-
uuGuwi """. p.i. ...w il uiatuBui
afc tho Adclpni on Monday night at
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ini nnpmnir vni, will Knnw fin unnr
,-rniiT,ta to e-re'i.se It. I
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GLASS and Goodman arc becoming
almost Gilbert and Sullivans or Da
mon and Pythlases in their playwright -ins
alliance. "The Hon. Sam Abe Davis
Potash." which, by the wny, tells the
. story, both hilarious and human, of a
Jewish merchant whose political experi
ences as the reform mayor of n small
town are, to say tho least, complicated
bothln plot and dialogue, is their fourth
collaboration.' one of them being "Busi-
nesstBefore Pleasure," already listed
Mr. Goodman wrote another comedv of
the "InTftble old eccentric" school. "The
tan -Oho btoort Mill, in whicli Louis
. -.- . . .--. .
Ainnn wns the star. I'ossiblv the hi?-
gest hit of this was matle by that fine , ' fhe daurttw of Bo and Beed" I d a better opo tunlt y to "i lip ay hi, A ?- Hiildren's "Micke, " inati
nr.tre., nH fo-..ier comic nnera star, ' L ,r.i.i,..,i ir u.n.ii.?i.i; . ." ii!' ! zifts as a ct n e.linn. Both r,it-,.ie ' u?"w'll be held on Saturday next at
Mathllde Cottrclly. who will be. b.v a co-
incidence, cast in a principal part in
'The on. Abe Potash." Another
nemhernf the cast wi be Itobeit Cum.
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impgs, wim ni uu H.-it iciutmiirira nvi c
,,, of the 'eudiny me-nbers of the
vtrpucum 0W1.B, uuu u, .u mu,
fact.
played the king in "If I Were Kin"
nt the very first production. H was
on excellent "heavy," as the phrase
goes. Later he (Succeeded Frank Keenan
as Sheriff Jack Itance, in "The Girl of
the Golden 'West." when Mr. Keenan
became costar with Charlotte Walker in
the Belasco production of "Tho War
rens of Virginia."
TnEHlj was really a good deal of
reasonableness in Mr. Bernard's de
sire not to becomo stereotyped in one
line of work.
David 'Warfleld. after two or thiee
tx taeasons each In "The Music Master"
. '.and "The Auctioneer," once had some
what the same feeling. He has sepa
rated his runs In those with other pop
ular plays and has outgrown the sense
of their routineness. He has something
to say nbout the situation however. It
seems that it depends on the actor
yhether bis impersonation will beVome
mechanical or not. He has played Simon
Iierl, the lovable old Hebrew in "The
iinfAnnAr " In uhirh h( a rnmtni in
Ki Philadclnhia shortly, more than 3300
timet. not consecutive, of course.
fi A Ar VMrp ntrn vliMn the l'litTwnar
ikVft Mm nfimlt thin nntl slmllnr rpc.
, X ords and whether ,thcy did not mean
L jia deadening of the artistic, he replied:
i in no longer one piuys a pari tne
lfs?Mbratcr it should become In his bands.
I .'llll the great actors have played certain
A Tolcs for very long periods. Irving
7S played 'The Bells' off and anon for
wore than forty years. Booth played
'-1 'Hamlet' throughout his career, some-
- v times many times consecutively. And
tf 'Oly think of Joseph Jefferson in 'Rip
van Winnie, x ao not minK mere was
any deterioration in their artistry of
conception and projection."
KirHS. FISKB has a role that is
JOfX piquant and piquing Ju "Mis' Nelly
'ft N'Orleans." It is a very and es
sentUUy feminine role that Lawrence
ICyrs has inrested her with, csjcclally
raitr the pSntaloons and big cigars
rrhkk Philip Mceller, another rising
voanx American dramatist, fitted her
WiSi U ''GeoriTp Sand." As tbo pa
tHeiu fcelte of old Creole New Or
! the. rerives the ?ioydenish sir!
,.f her ilcii pastj in .one cea8,Kad
n'lerjsatrfi.H with the jnoektatiesUtf
psssi
v fi'n th iwrltf amply bM
ENID
BENNETT,
STEPPING OUT"
WALLACE REIR
THE LOTTER'
MAN"
Palace-
fr , I'ei-Mf in complex situations Shi
' "'""J 'rs- l i"ke there is no deny-
iijr tliut-l.iit she U al rw-i- the Mis
Nelly that Mr. I.jie ha pietured. H.-
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?narp. tne urnue nign
New "Vork Idea. ' the
Mjrcon. the serious
High lioud.' the facil
in' inn-- ... "
touch Ol 111'
ile moement ami
quick repartee of 'CrstwluU' Kuan
mid the mounting hilariousiiets
"Mp lltltrttlLtAnft I-Hlf.!." -III! t
are part and parcel of the complex that
is "Mis' Nelly of N'Orleans." All or
them have contributed to the uew role
which Mrs. iisko enacts so naturally
that the term acting seems almost a
misnomer.
PHILADELPHIA has claim to part
of the success of Mr. Eyre, author of I
Mrs. Fisko h play, as most ot ms cany
literary and stage associations and in--
fl1.0nf.Aa hnlnnr. in this eitr
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obtained from William Penn.
Ah a b ,:jr(1-s ,K.altIl aa too dp)
, n.ll his nttenilinir nrennrn
tory school, and later Harvard, as both
his brothers did
So he was educated
pt home by private tutors, this gar. ontl will op rnuline I ledenck in 'Bonds
him more time to devote to stories and of I.oie." the feature ueelv of .October
plays which were already the "dream 1,'l. "The Life Line' contains two big
children" of his brain. As a joungi thrills, a theatie fire and the wrecking
man he found his chief interest was' of 11 ship on the lock". The cast iu
in the drama. He was stage struck eludes Lew Coil, .lack Holt, Seenas
enough ultimately to make a dehut with I Owen and Pauline Staike.
the Castle Square Stock Company ofi "Bonds of Love" is mado to order
Boston in "The Jilt." Later stage ev-' for Miss Frederick's dramatic talents,
periences Included "bit" parts with presenting her in a daring role that is
Julia Marlowe; engagements at the Now! mid to appeal to all clases of photo
Theatre, New York, and with the Co-'piny fnn3.
lurabin stock, Washington; several sea-
sons of Shakespearean roles witn uen
Ureet, etc. l-Jyre piacti tne pare ot .
Alcxis in "Antony and
Antony nnu uieopatra"
at the initial performance of the ill-
fated ?sew Theatre, on which such fond
hopes were fallaciously based.
Meanwhile, tie was writing plays, ms
first nroduced nlav was "Things That !
Count," in which Alice Brady had the rush through u mob of some ."Oil women
lending role and which ran a short time "extras."
nt The Playhouse. Later he wrote Toe ladies had been previously tipped
"Easy Come, Easy Go" and "Drift- off to tear his shirt into bits for sou
wood" and "Lazus Matazus," a play enirs and to make the experience ex
with only negro characters in its cast. I citing for him.
One evening Mrs. Fiske. who was! According to the plot, Mr. Beid ha
present at one of these original proline- rallied himself off as a husband for a
tions of Byre's plajs, much impressed dollar a chance, aud the "e.vras" were
with the dramatist's earnestness nnd I the women holding coupons on hand to
evident abilit, sent for him and sug
gestcd that he write a play for her. She
had long had a plot in mind, she told
him. of a southern comedy woven about
her recollections of a famous belle ofiuorel
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nhsls from Mrs. Iiske. Lvre started
stm-toil
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l? work on the tirsi
to work on the first rough draft of the .
nltitf nn1 uitiiti mihniiMnil it fn-n nitniiM
ibmitted it for approval. I
From that moment Mrs. Fisk'c was the I
author's constant aid and inspiration, I
ready at any time to give assistance, to 1
listen to scenario, plot or dialogue ori01 "" servnm. prooiem iu jiigiauu.
to jump in at a critical minute with her Madge Kenindy i I-'nuny O'Cormau.
keen sense of the dramatic and create ,hl! llttll faonte of a prouncul con-,
n tense situation or a moment of bus -1 ert companj touring the British Isles,
pense. And so it was that "Mis' Nelly "10 latcr becomes a star of the London
of N'Orleans" finally took substance i music balls, marries a lord and dis
and form. 'covers that all her relatives are her
I servants.
rpHERE is seldom a week at the the- John Bowers, as Lord Bantock. pur-
-- atres when what might he called the i
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Uuthin the zone, nnd that Ogives us nn
I Pennington, the delightful "dancer who
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i urcw, wltn .Miss Pennington In "The
Scandals of 1019." at the Forrest, is a
i-niiaueipiiian, Aituougn lie is no
I lation to the Drew family, his father
wus uu ucuir ami was at one time a
member of Mrs. Johu Dre.v's stock com
pany at the old Arch Street Theatre.
TIIKIti: is more to the motion pictures
today than mere entertainment Indi
cators of the country have investigated
the possibilities of the motion-picture
enmera as a means of suniileinenilnt
the textbooks of the schools. Psychol-
UHioin unii: muu'i IIIUL U1C CJ e CamM wn jn uuv iiimillu nu upi'eureu IU.
the pictorial message to the brain in a' Th'" stunts that Charlie does will cause
much more rapid manner and more se- man sides to ache,
curely for retention than it does by typ ! ., , ,
in the book. Not only does the student' ,. ' hp nf,h comla'1' .wnt this year by
absorb the lesson mm.li more ouickh n,,Ter!,al to Ina?,'. Pf,tr, in foreign
via the screen, but the movies are en- la,ltIs llus. J1"' , left for JiP""- The
tertaining us well. .Many schools nl- "npany is headed by Marie Walcamp,
ready have their hours for showing ' v," heietofore has been starring in
pictures, and theie is a great demand i sei'inls "'.western life. The object of
for the manufacture of educational nnd I tne expedition is to film a serial en
travel subjects. To have the wonders I titlei1 ''rlle I'erils of Lac-Tze." J.
of nature and the important places of I A,lcD Dunn, who has been confining
the world shown in their natural colors nis ,"ortt to writing western scenarios,
is now made possible by means of the has turned out this adventure storj of
special camera invented bv William Japanese life.
Van Doren Kelley. I ,....,., :.,.
FROM SCREEN TO STAGE
Anthony Kelly Reverses Usual Rou
tine for Playwrights
Anthnnv Pnnl Kellr the niiHmi. ,fl""n '""oruior.v. luciuuiug Ilim tanKS,
ThrVe Faces Fast "the secret service I dryl"s drV,nfc amJ tt Iiri,ntine "ahine
ii . Ii.-V? i.:i.' t.." Aui?e" I to say nothing of varied costumes and
play at the Garrick. is a Chicaco man
Only a few years ago he was u student
at 1'urdue. Ile is now twenty-three
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well paid scenario writer. He has
since attained notice as the joungest
dramatist on Broadway, and as author
of a successful first play.
Since he left Chicago, five years ago,
Kelly's career has been varied and
venturesome. He worked in Arizona
as rod man with an engineering gang,
and there be wrote his first motion pic
ture scenario. In Los Angeles he
wrote feature films. As a free lance
scenario writer he came two ears ago
to New York. After the first per
formance, of the play a year ago, last
June in Philadelphia, the author n
listed in tfie navy. Ho wasassigned to
the Metion picture delaitf the Bu
mmi of Karitla .Mjffi at jtrcseat
m Munr.
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UrHjO UP UN I UIAUO I
TO MOVIEDOM'S FANS-
To unusual feature photoplays are
Imo,ril fol. . stanlej . One will be
Mnurice TniirneiirV nrnrliietinn. "Tho
Lift, Line, from a lrury Lane mclo
drama, week of October (!. anil the sec
wanace uein nas uereioiore cnarac t
terizen me statement mat - ine icmnii-
nf the snecics is more deadlv than the
nnln" .... "oil l.ltt.t- " TSltt- 111 lll IIPIV I
l'aramount-Artcrnft picture. "The Lot
tery Man. which is coming to me
Palace next week, Mr. Ileid was in-
strutted b Direttor James Cruzc to
see that justice was done. When the
star started his mad lliglit they fell upon
him. lemcmberlng their order. He,
hnallj reached fatety, refusing an en-
J ur . cast of players surrounding
ti
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' Kenned in her newest Loldwyn
Picture, "btnctly t,oulidentiai, at tne
-"cauia next ween, were cuosen lor
'n,'r temperamental uffinity to the
liaracters in Jerome K. Jerome's story.
suing art us an adeuturc, meets I'anny
and marries her without telling her o"f
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I01U Ol lieunet,
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r.h .n,i Tinhort Tini,w ,. i, ,i,t.in. ,
I finished themsches in Mabel Normand's1
production of "Sis Hopkins," play roles,
ienreelv less nmrntlntr.
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George Beban, character actor, and pluck, will have an opportunity of see
Charlie Chapliu will share the honors 'ing their favorite at her best,
on the program at the Victoriu the week I
ot Uctober ti. Ueuan will appear in the
first showing of "Heuits of Men," u
nictuie iu which mi
nirth and pathos are
blended. As Niccoln, the Italian im-
migrtiui. iinonu u strange iaie into
u kuiiiuuu iou oi .vrizonn, .wr. iseuan
is saitl to surpass even his creation
in lire bigu of the Kose.
Charlie Chaplin will be seen in an
up-to-tiate punt ol "The Floor-
, walker,' one of the funniebt comedies
'i" "" "l'i"u til uuKiauu Willi
serial troupe recently. The Polo
company is now in Scotland, nhoto
graphing scenes for "The Thirteenth
Hour." Some idea of the size of the
Japanese expedition may be obtained
from the statement that the part
carries with it a complete nortnhle
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225,000 feet ot film.
the' Ar,iweekfOct;ber,rU,Sae
At-.. .:,.. P1..V ..ill U.. XL- ..... .. .
will appear in 'widow by Proxy, a
pitturization by Paramount -Artcraft of
the stage plav of the same name, by
Catherine C'lil&holm Cushing. It was
adapted for the screen by Julia Craw
ford, who made the screen successes
"Tom Sawyer" and "Huck and Tom."
On the Tenyo Maru sailing from San
Francisco this week one of the passen
gers is "Billy," a western pony, the
gift of Douglas Fairbanks to the Im
perial Zoological Gardens of Japan,
The star has a friend, a Japanese
merchant, who visits hip. every year.
lie was very mucn impressed uy a lit
tie western pony that Douglas, Jr., Wd
been irlding and expremwd a nbth tt
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SAENEY BEPTNAlslD
"THE HON. ABE
POTASH"
AdetpTu
ns nnnies nr,. rnrn in .Tnniin. Mr l'nir.
i'"na imuivumivij incaciucu ,..n,. . t
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J :ll a. in
at the Rivoli Theatre, at
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,vmo" tlme -""-Key will cnteriuin in
y.""0"-"? e" "8 ,u',on tll(: r,,;l'u; a.ml
the kiddles who have reveled lit her
audacity, and have been thrilled b.v her
-lo protect itselt against loss in ia-o
i of accident, sickness or death, Biiggsimon sense, but the deplorable (fact is
' Pictures, Inc., has had Clare A. ilnggs,
the cartoonist, creator of the Para-.
mount-iirigga i omeuies, insured, incistage effect.
producing company is also taKiug me
precaution of having Briggs work far in
nflvance of the reiense date of bis mc-
tares. lie already has- written the
scripts of nearly all of the fift-to
subjects.
Eueeue Walter, whose druma. ' The
Challenge," is now running at the Kel-
w-n Theatre in New York, and who i
known ns the author of "The Busiest
Waj," "Paid in Full," "The Wolf,'
"Fine Feathers" and "The Knife," left
New York this week to associate him -
self for an indefinite pcriotl with the
Goldwjn forces at Culver City, Call!,
Sir. Walter goes with no definite inn-
sion nor with any special plan to be
executed. His arrnngementi will give
Mm free mnce to observe the operation
of the studios, and anything more than
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mat ii ue ses in. uc wui w us-.ii-
tinted for the time being with the edi
torial forces.
The fourth production for F.miuent
Authors Pictures "Partners of the
Night," by Leroy Scott will be made
in New York. The scenario, prepared
bv Charles S. Whittaker, is now in the
hands of Mr. Scott, who is. now wriling
his own titles. It is said that so much
material was available In his novel that
another picture will be made from a
second set of scenes, v uew iinti ot
detective story is promised.
Florence Beed, who has been so emi
nently successful in"Thenoadsto Des
tiny," has not retired irora me screen.
On the contrary, she will be more in
evidence than ever, Her recent pro
duction "The Struggle Everlasting."
staged by Harry Bupf, Mull be an early
production at local movie theatres.
The Nixoii-Nirdllnger theatres have
made arrangements with Lie Goldwyn
nntl Select Film Corporations by which
I leading prpductions of those companies
will ue setn in mese hwii, ui-ruiutne
Farrar in "'The Waittsafad Its Wop
an" nnd Eugene G'jmlia Xhe' Per
fect 'Envar" are MBW early pr
sentatlotv s $
tWHI -2s - , J ,',!
MATRON GREY.
'THT?LE TACtS
EAST."
Gdrrick-""
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InC AMrCI IO mil OnillO nbCDl
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nr umiri i.- n u i.ii iw, 11. ill-ini
Praises Gilbert-Sullivan Knowledge
of "Slngableness"
Jefferson do Angelis in bis Ko-Ko
costume was talking between the acta
of "The Mikado" at the Chestnut
'Street Opera House.
"You might think that the Gilbert
and Sullivan practice of considering
ocal possibilities and limitations would
I appeal to any operetta writer as com
that many writers of musical comedy
are lacking in a practical knowledge of
I have known comnosers
to write a note in F sharp into a bari
tone's nnrt. Of course, the baritone
couldn't sing it; he could make a noise,
a squawk, but not a tone. Then the
audience, or that part of it that doesn't
know the practical side of singing,
thinks that the baritone is unnualified
, for his work.
"If 'opera comique continues to grow
, in popularity, and tiierc ure signs that
i it will, the theatre wl)I find a new and
expanding public in the new generation
of plnygoers and draw back many of the
, older theutgoers, who seem to have
i been alienated from the playhouse by
too much piffle. Now, though Gilbert
and Sullivan did much for the players
' who sing and act their roles, these roles
I are exacting in their demands upon
I the players for individuality, precision
and elegance of execution. That is tho
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New Play for Miss Reed
Channing Pollock, the playwright, well
known in this city, where lie made many
friends in his earlier days as a .travel
ing advance Agent, ran over this week
to visit acquaintances and to see his
"Roads of Destiny," starring Florence
Reed. .He spent part of the week read
ing to Miss Reed another of his plays in
which she is to be starred again next
season.
Academy of Music 1919-20
FOl'n SUBSCRIPTION CONCEHTS
New York
Symphony
Society
SOLOISTS:
Mabel Garrison
Fritz Kreisler
Percy Grainger
Mischa Levittki
Tuea,, Oct. 28i Thura.,
Dec. 181 Thur,, Jan.
L''j Thun.. I'jb, 28, at
8:13 P. II.
Walter
DwsmMck .COIITQI
Heaaon caie at Htpoe a
, bwlnning- Oct, 13. MU
Vf
Y. STUDIO FOR MISS REED
Star Will Not Have to Meet Camera
I at Yonkers
Florence Heed, now playing in
' "Itoads of Destiny," is to have a new
1 motion-picture studio in the heart of
, New York. No longer will she be com
pelled to get up at daybreak to catch
ferryboats or set the alarm iu older to
'get to Yonkers while the day is still
oung.
The premises known us the Amster
dam Operu House arc to be the subject
I of extensive 1 econstruction work. The
i lease is for ten jears. I'pou completion
'of the studios work will be started on
the Floieuce Iteed series of features
for United Pictures theatre.
How Spies Are Caught
Told with all the romance of fiction,
"Three Faces Fast" jot mnrshals iv
its story an array of actual facts iu
connection with the activities of the
secret service of England in its pursuit
nnd capture of German spies. Some
of the methods of spy catching are dis
closed in working out the plot.
M.P1NN
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iiauy !ioi unii r.tgti. i & u
M'.-VT YVKKK! 5
5 BIG ACTS 1
r. w woi.r rrest-ntu Tims
MELODY OF YOUTH
Charm. Talent anil Music i
S Toull
.UI1 5
WILSON BROS. ir??,"nl.ble ?
Mulally, Howell & McCarthy t
In "ANXlOUSMOaiKXTS'; J
GRINDELL & CORYL S
"A STtIIV IN THIM1UK.Y"
HELEN JAgKLEY
A
Hcream
'JCi. i'hlla. bhowlne
CHOOSING A WIFE
HIl.l. C11AXOED TI1UHSDAY 5
f l'hotouluji. Thru htanlrr Co. of America!
Forrest Mat. Today ".
POSITIVELY LAST TIMES
CHARLES DIf.LINGlIAM'8 NEWEST
.MUSICAL COMEDV SUCCESS
She's a Good Fellow
With the Glob Theatre. New 'York Co.
JOSEPH BANTL.EV
Dorothy Maynard. Ivy Sawjer,
Scott Welsh, the Duncan "Slutera
Awl the Fainooa I'ajami olrl Chorus
SAM S. SHUBERT Ev"'lni Li 8
Mat. Today. 2
AlJOLSONIN'"Sinbad,,
LYRIC Kvra-iNas at s-:o
V5 " MAT- TODAY
FLORENCE REED
In "nOADS OF DESTINY"
ADELPHI droad neiow hack"
... LAgT tmb TONIOHT
"today t OBY'S'BOW"
With ai:onaK MARION
BEG. MONDAY SEATS NOW
BARNEY BERNARD
in "THE HQN."SAM DAVIS"
CHESTNUT ST.,0".?",
ljV - J - MiT 5,5 . -
WKZM DOCTOR.
ML PllrVWU
Oprva House?
GEORGES tfENAVENT.
NELLY of N'ORIEANS
Broad-
ELSIE FERGUSON'S PICTURE
''Witness for Defense"
Locust
Booking
Flsie Ferguson in her latest Para-
muuni-.ricraft picture, "The Wit
ness for the Defense," at the Locust
tor all next week, lias a story written
by the noted English playwright aud
novelist, A. K. W. .Mason Ouida Ue
gcrc wrote the scenario. The follow-in..'
appear in support: Warner Oland,
j milium omnaing, Cora Williams,
George Fitzgerald, Amelia Summervillc
and Ulauchc Standing. This drama is
Jaid in England nnd India, with lover
nnd sweetheart parlcd by their parents
who selfishly beek better financial mat
rimonial nlliances for their children.
CHESTNUT BELOW
A Fall Season Festival
TIIK 1'OPUI.AK
.MUSICAI, CIIMKI1Y
t'UJIKUIAN AMI hTAIt
EDDIE FOY aiidj
Presenting "SLUMWHERE IN NEW YORK"
I-1TF.ST KDITinV OP TIIKin MlIBH'Al. AllHUItlllTY
ED & BIRDIE CONRAD
In "IION'KV SOXOS"
FLORENZ AMES AND
llttr-KlMi TIIKIU rOMKIIV BriSOTlK. "CmHT IN A .IAMB"
HOWARD LANGFORD & ANNA FREDERICKS
IN AN OHIC.INAl, hONT. HHKTril TAl.I.Kn "SIIOl'l'IXO"
a
KOBAN&CO. I WALLACE GALVIN 1 MAXINE BROS. & BOBBY
luXTUA AIIDEII ATTKAI'TIOM . AND
WALTER C.
WITH A SKHIFJI nF IIIH XKWK1T THARArTKIt STOIUES
Two ho Jljllj-. 3 i; j 30c und 03c, Includlnc Hur Tux.
. ., NliihtH, 8 !. M., 30c tn M.SO. Includlnc AVnr Tot.
Scats Alnuja n Week in Alliance. Hell, lllbert 330.1i Keyatone, Race 3180.
?o Telephone Ordrra for baturday or llollduia.
WALNUT
3I.VT. TODAY TONIGHT T.AST TI1IK. MURRAY & MCK In "I'tl. SAY SO"
TWO Wi:EK8 WTARTIM1 .MONDAY KVENING
FIRST PHILADELPHIA, APPEARANCE OF
The Logic of Larry
A lOUR'AOT AMERICAN COMEDY DRAMA UY
WILLARD MACK -0, TIGER ROSE.
WITH'
BARRY McCORMACK
And an Unusual NentYork Cnat. Including
(LAKA M0O?EH. MAI1LB STANTON, TOLLY I'lUM. PELIIA3I
I.YNTON, PAUL DYItoV. CHAUNCEY CAUSLAND, ADOLl'lI JllUn,
ARTHUR R. rRANT. ad other Notables
Hear McCormack's Big Song Hits
SEAT SALE FOR SECOND
PEOPLES
Kensington Avenue
WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY MATINEE, SEPT. 29TH
nMBWIMWPWWWN
George White Tells Their Re-
spective Function j
in Dancing i
"What's that saying about not let
ting your left hand know what your
right is doing?" asked Gcorgo White, I
the dancer, whoso first managerial en '
lerprisc Is the "Scandals of 1010," next
week at the Forrest. "Well, it's a
good line whoever said It, only It ought
to read don't let your left foot know
what your right foot is doing."
"I have discovered that in dancing
the right foot is the serious ono and
tho left foot the comedy one. and be
tween the two you can express any
emotion you want. Just as black and
white mako gray, so tho two feet to
gether can express tho emotions between
comedy and tragedy. Try it out on
your own iloor, provlrling the fellow
who lives below you don't object. Seri
ously, though, it is quite possiblo to
tejl a story ns eloquently with your
feet as with your voice or your face.
There is a pantomime of the feet that
is only jii6t being discovered. If you
think that 'dancing is just dancing1,'
just watch Ann -Pennington, nnd then
i Lester Allen, nnd then La Sylphe
nil in the 'Scandals.' There you havo
i Maude Adams, Sam Bernard and Ethel
Barrymorc terpslchorcaily speaking."
Pupils of Gullbert
Three of the young actresses in Mrs.
I'iske's company, who nro appearing
in "Mis' Nelly of N'Orleans'r nt the
Broad have been pupils of Tvetto Guil
bert, tho French diseuso and actress.
Theso girls who owe much of their
technique to Mme. Quilbert's training
aro Dorothy 'Day, who appears as
Delphlne Falalse; Clarisra Stem,
who plays the part of Angeliquc. and
Ludmilla Toretzka, the soloist, off stage.
Camden Photoplays
Coming attractions for the Tempi,
Camden, arc "Itafllcs," with Jack Bar
rymorc; Robert Warwick in "Acciden
tal Honeymoon" : Pauline Frederick in
"One Week of Life," nnd Bex Beach's
"The Crimson Gardenia."
What's in a Name
Tvctte Rugel. prima donna with
"Scandal.? of 1M07' coming to the For
rest Monday night, in private life is
Mrs. Johnny Doolcy, und is the wife of
Johnny Doolcy. the acrobatic comedian,
this season with Zicgfcld Follies.
J. Fred gmmerman Theatre "ffffyff
EVENING PRICES. 25c. 35c, 50c 4 75e
.Mutt. Tuedj, ThuMdijiJC- 9, 7C
& 8aturda.T lle.t BtaU 3C OiOOCI
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xjn.yji. TMK TONIGHT
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Iltslnnlns Mondar Krenlnc, Kept. 20
MK. PKvhK. t ilX)ER
rnusENTS
MAE DESMOND
In Altwmder nion' Inlmne Htory
A llramn of Motlitr Ine
Ortnhff tl "l HOPKINS"'
TWELFTH STKEET
of Comedy and Songs!
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lOIINGER
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TWO JESTERS
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ADELAIDE WINTHROP
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S VTUIWAY ALtTINKK, S3o to $1.00
SATURDAY NIGHT. 25c In 1.80
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WEEK STARTS THURSDAY
THEATRE
and Cumberland Street
QKPHEUM
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Harry Hastings' Big Show
FEATURING
DAN COLEMAN
In the Scoa ,4itin pi ih fua Km:
A SMlgfa with tvtyctick of the wtch
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