THE PEK: OMAHA. SUNDAY. MARCH 2C. 1922.
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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.
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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.
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'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
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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.
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Adolph Zukor presents
ElsieFerguson
Wallace Reid
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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.
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