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THE PEK: OMAHA. SUNDAY. MARCH 2C. 1922. it n I I Milne's Latest Comedy Shows Life's Tragedy By JAMES WUITTAKER. XTtW YORK A bit underwrit IV ln ii tli net rUy by A. A. .Mime j ha Hum Atnu nUyJC in the Jlooih Ihmier. The actors, censing nnf such (4u!t c( ini muili per tectum In the origin! of tli uotk Ihry r dvtinir. overact it in one or two places. Mr, Milne tul.es the tragedy of Huyds too hthtly. Mi. Alexandra Carlisle takes it loo heavy. Hetwefn thete two in terpretatton lir a clever little trick rf tale, shorter, I suspect, than the tune Mr. Milne take to tell it, but ju.t the s.irt of outline (or him to till in will) lii talint (or prrtty and I'lvrrtinff detail. Mi't Carlisle's per sitrme in taking all e( "The Truth About inayu. at a verv scriour. nutter, fit (or meaningful elocution. nuivrmently illustrates the pointa in !n story Ahih Mr, Milne, always the fimirtlian, has seen I t to pass by: point where Mr. Samuel ShJpman, lor iu.Unce, always the tragedian, would pre hit greatest weight. Mr. Milne in not seriously con cerns with the tragedy in the pre fiirament of P. lards' spinster daualv tr, Isobct, (which Miki Carlisle tinds u sad), when the famous old poet, survivor into the present of the sreatness of the Victorian era. con futes to tier on his death bed that his verses have all been stolen from a man long dead. He lias but half an eye for the sadnns of her sacri ficed state, a waned human offering to a roi of belles letters who has brtrn proved false. But he has a whole eye and winking- one for the comic things around her. The pumped up importance of P.layds' son-in-law has had all the air grotesquely let out of it and here is pompous William Rlayds-Conway r.Mi.. delivered to the oen that learned to lampoon in the pages of J'unch. And 'the female blayds whom William married, moistening many handkerchiefs with the tears of a pure type Oedipus complex, is she not good stuff for Milne's gently ruinous ridicule? His pleasure is to tfibe the unlucky self-revelations of a household which has had all the inheritance of the glory and fortune of a famous name rudely swept from them and his main business is doing "that brown. The centers of gravity of the play will thus be found in the pungently ironic scene of the second act, when these various selfish folk are con fronted with the proof that they and the nation have just conducted a very fine funeral for a venerable fraud and, again, in the family coun cil of the third act wherein they cautiously and with many droll sophisms start out to make a second secret funeral for the truth. In the Booth, the center of gravity has been put, wrongly, I think, in the undoubt ed powers for moving sentiment of Miss Carlisle's acting. It makes too much gravity in the booth. The horrible thing about these strange O'Neill dramatic proceed ings in the Provincetown Players' little theater in MacDougal street is rot the hair on Actor Louis Wol heim's bare and sweating chest, nor the fervid vocabulary which O'Neill lias put in his large trombony mouth including the singular epithet, "lousy tart," and the plural one, fspit in her white face" nor yet tlie ghastly termination of "The Hairy Ape's" career in the scrunching arms of a terribly realistic gorilla, plus the subsequent hysterias of the women in the audience. These are tricks of the strenuous little theater stage for which report and import from the Parisian Grand Guignol stage have prepared trie venturesome play-goer. My sweat in the overpacked MacDougal street house was not chilled by these paint terrors. But it ran cold during the intermissions, when there was time to ruminate on the brain of the man who had contrived the entertain ment. ' Eugene O'Neill has allowed that brain to take on a fine cruel edge and has fallen into a way of using it surgically, as one uses only scalpels. "The Hairy Ape" resembles the same author's "Emeperor Jones" only in the formal aspects of its curious construction in the right stage pictures which O'Neill prefers to the traditional three acts. Be tween the earlier and the present work he has made an enormous mental ascent and an equal temper amental descent. "The Emperor" was a type of the reverting civilized nigger. "The Ape" is no type, but a very human suffering man. In "The Emperor" O'Neill dissected. In "The Ape" he vivisects. "The Ape" he calmly hog-ties and skins. From the moment the first . curtain goes up on "The Ape" and his fellows lolling half nude In the hell-hole of the stokers' quarters of a modern ocean liner until it goes down on "The Ape" writhing with a broken back in the gorilla cage in the Central park zoo he is continu ously at the "harsh mercies of his tormenting biographer. Of course, in no play do trie characters have much privacy from the author. He can strip and libel at will. The author has all the priv ileges of a ferret, the characters t;one of the hunted rabbit. No play character is permitted to run. A decent author will not take the ultimate privilege of the ferret and gnaw his prey, after it is caught. Kut O'Neill has no gentle scruples, lie writes the history of a man who never had a chance, following him from indignity to indignity, from stokehold to park bench, to jail, to death, and heaping on him the fina! irdignity of this photographic record of his many shames. He has not written or given "The Hairy Ape" a fair play. The production of the piece is en thusiastically good, particularly In the acting. The Third avenue slang in which it is written presents no difficulties which Mr. Wolheim has not mastered. To use some of that vernacular here, Mr. Wolheim as the aoe is a ham what am. And Mr. Henry O'Neill (no relationship mentioned in the program) js. as his pal Paddy, the next sest wing. One of the attractive things about "The I-irst titty Years,' m. tne Princess theater is that the reviewer Ana Lai ntnrV. in 9 11 ff string of names of people concerned in its production together with, if possible, fitting and variegated ad jective?. Henry M'-ers. a Columbia graduate, wrote it. -.ir- and Tom Towers act it That is all. ' XV) V. f ru r.- " - '. x ' ' v:v.v . .v.- X. . ; . . p "Y vcaooectooctcoocecooaoicocttco (jeneve Uuiler ' Orpheum Helen Spencer GayetV 5T , " , s 'S - report? & y When one has termed the first novel, the second impressive and the third sane, the personalities are done witji, the compliments over, and we can get on to the thing, the play. If Author Meyers is novel, his play is much noveller. Indeed, it is a novel and its presence as a play on the Princess stage is the merest ac cident of the writers imagination. It would not surprise me to learn that Myers had originally produced this record of fifty years of the mar ried life of his two protagonists with a book press in mind and had changed the opus for the stage sim ply hy handing all the dialogue to two actors and all the descriptive stuff to some scene painter. Myers speaks for the failure of marriage. His pair start blithely, like the end of a perfect fiction, on a simple honeymoon in a Harlem flat. Thence their course and that of the play is ever downward toward the dumps, until, in an ultimate scene scene, Mr. Myers sits them in two chairs to glance backward over the anniversaries of their mating and dis cover that everything was all wrong, always all wrong. It was. They suffered in Harlem. Things got worse when they moved to the suburbs. They got still worse when the old man began to develop indigestion and the old lady the EMPRESS New Show Today KALALUHIS HAWA11ANS "An Evening In Hawaii" TOWNSEND WILBUR & CO. Comedy Sketch . Th Smart Aleck WEST & VAN SICKLEN in "Thi Outinj MALEY A O'BRIEN "Up and Down' Vaudeville Shown at 1:40, 4, 6:30 and 9 mood which made Lydia Pinkham famous. And they were wretched beyond repair on the golden anni versary, which the aging couple spent in vindictive silence,' having vowed never to speak to each other again. All this is done very deftly by Mr. Myers and redone veraciously by the two actors. But, I claim dis covery, the truth is lately getting very easy to tell. The trick of ex posing it has become so general among thq writing people that it has become just habit. Nothing, nowa days, is simpler than to tell the truth about almost anything, treat ies, tarts, Tammy, taxes and tummies. The exhibitions are all down in the mud, the victory' over the Victorian complete. . In fact the truth is told so often it makes me tired. It is time again for a quaint and fascinat ing lie. I want a new Robert Louis Stevenson to write me 300 pages of circumstantial account of things that could not happen or another Barrie with three acts of undiluted make-believe. The short and ugly truths that Messrs. Eugene O'Neill, George Bernard Shaw, and Henry Myers lately have been telling me have made me very weary and I want to be refreshed with tall and pretty tales. Following a brief illness, Theodore Roberts is now hard at work in his role in "Our Leading Citizen," star ring Thomas Meighan. It is a picture by George Ade. s j lj u a a 'TUUUtvCWjjJv Week Starting Sunday, March 26th Matinee Every Day 2:lf Every Night 8:15 WILLIAM GAXTON In a Novel One-Act Play "KISSES" By S. Jay Kaufman Madeline Dorothy CAMERON SISTERS "A Study in Rhythm" Assisted by Grant McKay EMERSON & BALDWIN Present "So Thi Is Paris" ED ALLEN Present The Canine Thespian "TAX IE" In a Novelty Playlet "TRUE PALS" Geneve FLANDERS & BUTLER 'A Vaudeville Concert" JACK 4 JESSIE GIBSON In "A Cycle of Smiles and Thrills" The Popular Broadway Favorite HARRY DELF In Soncs of His Own Composition Topics of the Day Aesop's Fables Patha Weekly Matins 150 to 50c; nut si 75c; II Saturday and Sunday Nights Ido to SI. 00; Soma SI. 25 Saturday snd Sunday Pstrans Pay U. S. War Tax Today's Winner of Two Free Seats Is Auto No. 21,349 Metropolitan Opera Co. THURSDAY, MARCH 30 Municipal Auditorium Auspicu Omaha Business Woman's Club O o Tickets on sal at the Box Office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 28, 29 and 30. Prices, J1.21, $1.38, $1.65. Shoe Sole Caue Cameron Sister 8 to Work Overtime What the Theaters Offer In Uifse thy of liiwh W, nut I in point i I'niutslwrin but in ilt'lUr nl (ruts, ili d-iiiccr iuut neifari'y be an eeonoiiiist i boots nd hof, ar an important part o( lift" ltir. Id uniliHilttfiJIy tfi purl tht rrvnvff i!ie riui;htt?t image. The Cimrritn !Mtfrf, tw ttr4C five girl), h) are running the IKiHy a ctuse sccortJ, a daiu'frt, are natliing short c cranki on the iisttrr f thrir fjot drtsi. ISring well shod to them ii the nioit im portant part in ladies' attire. Nat atnne mut the boot or thoe be a distinctive the gown or hat, and a well madf, but it aUo mut ap pear brand new front collar ta io!e, and tt is the iole that ousfi Doro thy and Madeline thrir trotihle. A piece of leathrr that coniea violently in contact with the iane many hun dred of tinici in the course of the performance!, i bound to ihow some effect. The leather becomra o hot that it acorchei mildly and taunct the aole of the lue to be come darW. or if thry are colored to fade. Of course, it would be per fectly diflicult to discard shora that are good in every other respect ex cept that thrir dole are aliRhtly dis colored, and it would also pave the way to bankruptcy for anyone who tiiiuht attempt Rudt an extravagance. The Cameron Sinters, however, have olvcd the problem. When you fee them, note carefully that the soles of their shoes always appear brand new, and then remember thi secret. After every performance, their maid assemble all of the shoes they have used on that occasion and very carefully applies a bit of emery doth to them, thereby removing the tin iest fractional thickness of leather, and in reality bringing to the sur face an unused part of the material. This goes on after each perform ance, until so much of the sole has been filed away that the shoes is no longer safe to dance in, and then, of course, the cobbler is consulted. Broadway Star on Screen. Xila Xaldi, an exotic Broadway beauty, who played the part of "Temptation" in "Experience" has been chosen to play the part of Dona Sol, the Spanish vamp, in Ibanez' "Blood and Sand," which will be picturized with Rodolph Valentino in the star role. Several seasons ago Miss Kaldi won fame as a vampire v ith her work in "Dr. Jeltyll and Mr. Hyde," a picture with John Bar rymorc in the dual role. FOR at I He sisllsr si"-"ae I Ins l h 11. (id. win, WM"h lUt'SH I I H"""' is lull ', KIuks" I this llrilna he is "(. I.il.4 fc fits Me csrtfuliV Witea luu Mubaiiks Ml t,.l-l 14 eii'-f ih euuiirts) pttmrs fivi4 if as Mr lltiioa who .!( h i l-u. e " ihe line in ( Ilia s-sl exr, 'A h.sui.r t.tit'll.hman ' siU'tK hnkiM itMnlr4 lh la d.ar.ie of rharmtia eatMl!hntns. UUiin ni iMiiuiiiy t"ntrun I' I' Ik oihr h4iiii uri.uH. Thi iltus n' are auKi4 r ti'snl W. K. t" Iha liin.n.i siai-r nave Invn fatii(s IK SttiUvills. The l.ill is lo hn (it oih.r va.sllani On buin n, la el lnm n (r.iuf. l on f th-M la la I' run iritiui4 or ll" ltf, h is l ii-b anas nt his euiiiposiiinn, T' 4"t is l 'i'r In s ial( railed 'Tri l"i " Vvnh F4 H M pmi, lh !urai4 renin h lh rule at taint, fcmrson an4 Haldwin ' M'I Juislars. (in vt tha must jilmme ! I". sn4 p I'll en In tau.l-nn u ta 'lr4 hr Kie risM a4 Uan-v lluilrr. Arehsie sre uampaline prrrms. Ihe iarinul brolhfi h rr lively Slid enlsrislnlni I. Thr sis4 4e tlaver (ais in ihnin h' Tha rarlo.io rmtr, A "Da r"alils. win h a .rrn eff-rln. anil ss Tefirs ot ih I'.r n4 ih 1'sib WKly will L e(lr4, 0NB of Ih moat plesilni vnts of the Orvbum saaaun is snnuner4 f,,r lh k txinnlif April S, oh.n lh thrmin s (na ar. ltie Kishar, la lo i'ir in t Ii quaint nne art c.imtdr. "Tha Climr H-hrartsl." The play wrliun fur hsr hy flair Kummar. suihiir f surh surfm- as tlrarinu. Annahll" ami " 'lm. Cninills" In "The fhir haraal" Mia flatter Is s-n n4 hr4 at br best Till kxl'i snraeiiva Ike (Hreip i ihi hi, I i. j... luu aa "Til-'. Ti ' K i f in rumal.ie an4 I I Id ! Iliuraualily iIi:iHiImI prn4ui iii.s h sir. iuiii( I.. a pm n,. ,gn. ..,,. iiiruii. iue aia- lal r-alur ef Ida is ine puriaaau. Th K .ti .i 4 II. ul.. m onir s.ibl a4 Hpesxr b Ih Im4ii( f.i,'M. a... I in hir h. at aui .iM4 hy John.. Ii iusni. Jimmy l ..in,r. Itiinors ttil . Anns U l'..nnl a4 ylkers t owallr ln(h lelib-r. Krum a nw siandtidlm. ih pio.tyeli,. is eampii en4 is Hie niaiter af eaiunu, tne pr.-. 4u.r ha ain innnity laiblv i. ih eai-alitui Ul. lh r..l haauiy of rhariis I maie up at siiuma ira4a fatai lira l a.liaa' riiUiw si I I daily stl k alanine luiiwrmiy. T4 nisllii h'tln si 1. W: HAT may he trm4 Ih srlriiual yaraaluiiy ef Isi4 Warliald la si'lm.i4il vl4nnra4 hy his imr. Iraal nt l ir Clrinun I Iavi4 H, !... a maaiarlr play, 'Iha llaiurs f 'i.p tlrlnim," hi. h out h ran at In Hianltla lhsl-r, en Tuvsilay an. I W. naailay, April II sn4 II, urdlnarity lh t I a v r h Is ctafl In Ih mailer ut maka-up an4 car-ful In hi 4irrnii t en ef eular.l or phaltal rharaclrria. tlr la tr.diu.l wult yaraallliiy. Hut lhr I hishar taraaiiliiy than thai an4 vt I his Mr. Warfial4 la truly paM. l. llts 4iff"raiitialiia lwiran himon l.avl In "Th Au.'llinr." Hr nn llarwls' In Th Slualr slaaiar,' sn4 fal-r ilrinim r.ha in lh wry uls of th thm hirn II mi(hi, nj.4. pu sit Hire" rulK In III am make up wiihnui iaininc lh sharp 1 ia iin-t i..a that h rraaira helwen Iha Ihrre itiar. ai lKis, hu h vri..mliiy ia hvn4 alt iM'hmiiu. It I th fir hishaal quality of Inlarprtlaltvs n-tiula. Raid Battles With Fists for the Love of Spanish Dancer A scene with the much-sought punch was the fray between Wallace Keid and .Montagu Love in the pic ture "Forever," starring Elsie Fergu son and Wallace Keid. when the two ! meet in the slag, dressing roum ot Dolores, the Spanish dancer, played by Dolores Cassinelli. "Forever" will be shown at the Brandeis the ater this week. In the screen version of the Du Mauricr classic, the fatal argument between Tcter and his Uncle Ibbet son begins back stage in the danc er's dressing room. Both Mr. Keid, who plays the l'ctcr Ibbetson role, and Love, who is east as Colonel Ibbetson, are about six feet tall. Reid "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER" Mat. and Nile Today Good Res'v'd Seat, 60c Ta. Phniamraalt SlItMlllsl Olivine HURTio-s 'TIT ZL TAT' aVaTeai: ossein! wrndrn NIblo & Spencer Positively the Faitert Shaw la Bsrlsak. Bis Baauly Chorui. LADIES' TI0KET8, l3a-25oEVEAY WEEK DAY weighs two hundred and two pounds and Love nearly as mub. Swunnon's New Lead. David Powell, who will play the male lead in Gloria Swanson'i next picture, "The Gilded Cage," is a Scotchman and lias appeared on the speaking stage with Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Iicerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry and others. He has ap peared in numerous pictures. He ii five feet ten, weights 160 pounds and has dark hair and eyes. Theater Ounera Apalnut i'lay of Obenehaln Murder Thproii.hly aa!nt -apit4liatum of film pluvs lusrd on aulual riiura drr scandal, tbt Mtivn 1'iriuu Tluatrr Outlet, if AmeiUa bv Uued th following stitnnrnt, sr ting forth rtMtons wliy nuh photo ',i thiiiild not be s'i iwii: "tliir attcntum has been brounht r the fait that -an attempt is bring made to rOid'it the Ka'pU Obcn chain picture in rermiii n lions of the country. As this pittute fis been drvrlnfed lansr'y tl'iouuli the nninler iK tuncfy wl iih atiaihri ti Mrs, Oliriu bam, our nanoiul of- ilirlS trtl It la 3Hll.t RimiJ public policy t have tt ekhilntrd n th screens if ihe theaters of the I'nited Slates. We treuiintty object to it prrrni,iiicn on that account, as we d net b lirve such a pirtmc has an edilymg or elevating inf'iienr. "It should be accorded piccUrly tha same aiher.e treatment a was given the Clara I Union Smith iii litre which had a simila o'in, Theater own ers are resprtiiiiiv reipii'Sted to re frain front exhibiting this pieture for the reasons iiietitiomil, Ibis line of action is in exact conformity with the attitude of the Motion Plrtuie Theater Owners of America on all such pictures and is in I ne with the resolutions of protest adopted at various state conventions, "Let u keep our screens clean and ue pictures of a wholesome character." Doug Keaily for Action. Doncl.is Fairbanks has engaged I'aul Dickey to plav the chief hea?y role in the super-feature which be is making to succeed bis "The Three Musketeers." Dickey was signed p during "Doug's" stay in New York, He will have the role of a bad man" of the Crusader period. Tuesday & It --I1 11 10 uiXSlim WMn.rf.y HUM. 11-1 HEATRE ,SW MATINEE WEDNESDAY David Belasco Present DAVID WARFIELD in "The Return of Peter Grimm" By David Belasco Mail Orders Now Ssat Sal Tuesday, April S Pricesi SOc, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 Plus War Tax. r- i:' i if Adolph Zukor presents ElsieFerguson Wallace Reid m FOREVER ct ' !Paramou7i-6 Sftcciure.- J3ased on -Lh novel PETER IBBETSON hy George DuMaurier andthe pla by John WathanEaphael tPAoioplathy Oidda, 'Bergere. The greatest story of love thai ihe screen has ever linorvn. A Picture that makes you feel you've seen a thing of glorious beauty. Nothing else these noted stars have ever done can touch it. QRANDEIQ THEATER TONIGHT At 7 and 9 Thereafter at 1-3-7 and 9 Prices 50c; a few, 75c; boxes, $1.00 SEATS RESERVED ALL PERFORMANCES IMPORTANT On account of the necessity of seeing "Forever" from the beginning, and for your convenience as well, NO ONE ADMITTED AFTER ""FEATURE STARTS. "Forever" played to capacity at the Criterion Theater, New York, for eight weeks, at $2.00 admission. 58 sa4Sl& Ufa' mm fa 4 CaSi ?S 3 7 U1A if ,