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Show try club, from which she h,. , pendtd. Me play drass li,." , leaden way through i.rM ,le" ;; ; Of humor or Invention whimsical, there is :.aS' enterprise as a whole o(, .. other evidence of the unmiL"r Eloiy of star actors i im, ' r' M s'XB.e which provides ,,'' opportunities fur th Mr , s'i collar to him or her s aurf','?-'"-gm'.e an audience. ""! Miss George Is the cleverc,. on the present dav Anient , l' ' her selection of the Ik-Im "i ' do would see:n to lmlk-i , mem of nuniuscrlpts i3 r The producilon or "s;,,. ?,JT ' She Did," calling for a,, ,V ' ncss and lightness of tocoh I marks of blacksmith " Geovse's support is as rk-i,!',.1' as that of a railroad trestle ' rrtllE amount of electrical te -- with which a niovin,. ,,1,.,,. must be supplied is sttmV, , ' olden days when tho films , Infancy it was customarv to iv r interior scenes by tho iu , , with an occasional use of difr.K ' all that is changed. The," . v no first-class company ti, lt V V take nearly all of its interior s 4 tho glare of the niereurv lairn"'" ' The electrical equipment ot'il. versal Mini company ulono u, t $300,000. For every Interior . .. on the Universal stages a batt'-rr cury lights, manned bv a e,or; '.' trleians, is used. Besides u,,, . light, which gives a subdu -glow, low m luminous power brie i- 'Sl head aro lights are emplcivfj " clearnoss and distinctness to' ih . '' 'I Of late years, many exceedim..' ! tlful photographic effects havt k taiued through the judldoiu lia,v ; the spot light. For instance b" ' of the spot light, a star even V '" the boauty of her hair cuhuikv ' ioft flood of light. ' For photographing tin tni,.,-. public, buildings or private heir-. versal has two fully equipped mc carrying 00 kilowatt generator, , of brightening up any offlee, er v ' night into day. This eunn.any I :' own electrical shops and iiiakLs all of ita own electrical eauiurr I Tho largest spot light in the ,-,' 1 recently . finished at tho Ihnvtoii i trie shops. This huge spot lijin , , ten feet in tho air, has a U-wA denser, U3es a 300-ampero eurro'- , givos such a strong ray ot light e ' its use a closeup can be taken ef " MacLaren's face with tho spot l-l I! feet away, and her featated v.. ! brought out iu sharp detail. TIT HAT Dempscy did to T.'aiai: ' nothing on what a latere . Viola Dana's loading man whenth. pany was located near HollywcHja, last week making scenes. , There was one scene tvhere A Short, w-ho is playing opposite M'-- IV had to slide down a ladder from :r. n story of a burning hotel. Tb u' practiced his slide until lie lliou: I he had it xerfect, and llien Direcu , luce called for action. , IIr. Short came down sinoo-. r, swiftly and was almost to tie . when a rung of the ladder caur squarely under the chin, with tli. effect that Dempsey's first uiipen n on WHIarel. The actor was uni t ' in his surroundings for quite a few often. While tho injury was not: , at least one member ot the romn , has a. great respect for ladder n LEM FRAZER, town mar:''. I; Orchard Acres, a little com:, near Universal City, disappear ccntly. Frazer's whereabouts is not i" but it is said that lie has sraj ; I that it would take $9 to will postal card. . , a Frazer 's disappearance is dine tributed to Harry Carey, wko to ' several hundred "screen convic! t a production. Frazer saw the t striped suits and tried to arte l whole companv. His .lisapiwn lowed the discovery that the " were motion picture players. TOD BROWNIXG, the fnlvcrsi! ; i tor. used to be a circus c!o" cording to the critics, ho -d ' funny. jto rather shared lru n i until he found himself In a ; V , crn town where the circus 2- . P ' Seated in tho lobby fw to.. hotel. Browning was ratner lis.,' . the persistent stare of a yow f, "Oh, mother." she said tp tne-f-. " accompanied her, "there Ib , -, " saw at the circus, but he, Km. n than he did in the ring. :t " " 'o WILL KOGERS says: . - Alreadv they are tiW 1 ' licni Steel shares for Peruna ( ; pavinar the difference. , Getting bit by a snake ,. a lost art. Xo man will leu-- him now. Xo brandv women will M ' . gle along without faintlns, More next week about tn . colonel, who. when they ( !; his mint bed, just said: '-'-.,' deeper and 1 "ill get inni:---. both non-essentials now. ,. IiHE famous dispensers of rr..r. .s Lvons and Lee Moran, are . I'unav olT the f-creeii cs on. . .: "Vou know," said l'-';, scenes, "when T was youn-" ' so much that the doctor v I did not give up tooaceo 1 -nr.- mind." .... . "Well, whv didn't you F ,;. " asked Lee, and then proaU'.' away. ' mHG following Is attributed" Earriscalc: Ftalboa was about to dlS'-'', cific ocean. "What 1 ni scene impressive," he rtmsri-'-, ' Callahan. "Is a leading ?,-,. five cameras, but It's a know that if r didn't discover ;-I'uero ;-I'uero ni'ver would be any :inv California, nor any n'f "y I will, therefore, go ahead i' it." And ho did. Solomon was meditating e wUdom. " 'S..11 rlcht '., he remarked to Lnc O l."'.., had one-tenth the tune siu. me with I'd invent a mo; ' era and put my wives and a work making movies. Al' ,.', arc fit for is atmosphere. me a little Jas music en . -.. and psaltery, Uric: 1 am lloblnson Crusoe wns tlijY,.': sad lot. "I bnvc one 'IV!"-.10.. :, for." he remarked to H'ia' into the dish yf iroat nif, "Wlir.jzaf."' Burgled K' , "I don't have to sit n1 'Roofer in the picture s w " the time and helps out tlm his ruueous v oicc." "ilasso." said Friday. Abel had just fallen a J':ft "I suppose I ho baschuil to this deed as thu (''', s record," panted Clin. " . . Nero was fiudiin.'t v, hllo e .' ; "I iniiv be a bum 1 iodic , ' ,... all thev s:iv about me as a" , ,- ou can dike it fr" ;;W, , none of those movie ""'" to notliln' on nio when it '"' .,., a speetcclc -i. W. c irill'tb. 1 man mid Marshall Nvi Oseai-, letch me a lierso a athir.it." A By GEORGE J"EAN NATHAN. NOT the least amusing feature about so-called bedroom farce is the amusement provided tho public by tho habitual newspaper review of such farce which maintains that It can no longer succeed In amusing the public. According to a, tradition close to the heart of the average journalistic theatrical theatri-cal commentator, the French closet-biding, door-slamming farce has long since run its course, yet, by a. perhaps somewhat some-what more reliable tradition equally close to the heart of the box office, it appears that the former tradition like most traditions tradi-tions of theatrical criticism is very largely whim-wham. True enough, every once In a while a farce of this kidney fails; but to argue from this occasional failure that it is not the individual farce, but the. general species of farce that hys failed, is to argue that, since every once in a while a haberdasher fails, we have in the failure a sure sign that men no longer like to wear undergarments. Written with any degree of dexterity and cast with any degree of skill the. old farce formula four times in five nu'y be relied upon to tease the proletarian laugh and make a substantial percentage on the investment. Out of the last ten farces of the kind produced in New York, eight have returned a profit to the producers. pro-ducers. This profit, of course, has not been equally large in each instance in two Instances it has been modest but there has been a profit, none the less. Not Especially Funny. The most recent brew from the tried and generally true recipe, is the labor of two ladles hitherto unknown to the Broadway Broad-way art centers, bears the chaste title, "Nightie-Night," and marks the entrance into the field of theatrical production of Adolph Klauber quondam dramatic critic to the New York Times, a gazette whose present Hazlitt. a most profound young man, recently achieved a juicy coup by referring to "the greatest p'ay ever written writ-ten by a woman, viz., the 'ltiders to the Sea' of Lady Gregory." "Nightie-Night." to my species of palate, pal-ate, is not especially humorous stuff. Its maneuvers are the stereotyped maneuvers of its parental and grand-parental farces, and its dialogue and business are, in the main, the dialogue and business of a score of farces to the port and starboard. Yet, like most affairs of its cut. it seems fully to satisfy the mass of lis customers. To me. there is no longer anything extraordinarily ex-traordinarily comical In the spectacle of a woman in a pink night dress falling unexpectedly un-expectedly out of a wardrobe or in the view of a houri in negligee pupping sud-denlv sud-denlv out of a door, emitting a screech and "falling In a faint upon the carpet. But the venerable hokums seem still to be toothsome lo my neighbors. And so, T presume. "Nightie-Night." with all its famiiiar dodges, will be as successful as the directly antecedent similar farces with all tho same dodges. Given Warming Over. The cast presenting this latest door-banger door-banger is rather nioro comnetTt than tho pantaloon coteries customarily assembled as-sembled for such projections. The best member is Francis Byrne, who literally carries the burden of the evening upon his shoulders. Assisting him are the Misses Wii'.a Mortimer and Chambers, and two or three gentlemen who give one no especial reason for remembering their names. The show is to be eyed in the Princess theater. Passing over a peculiar bloom in the Henry Miller theater high "I.usmore," the work of Chaui.cey Olcott's wife and'a Miss Grace Hcyer. since one aer. r,f the masterpiece was all that I, a fellow oj poycrful build, could digest, we proceed lo "A Regular Feller" at the Cort. Here wo have the latest endeavor of that eminent emi-nent literary artist, M. Mark Swan. But though the endeavor is the M. Swan's latest, it was one of tho M. Georgo Cohan's Co-han's and tho M. Vvinchell Smith's earliest. ear-liest. What the M. Swan lias done is merely to write the popular play of a half dozen seasons ago, wherein the young city man, cast off by his father, goes into the country, coun-try, makes repartee for three acts, and ends up in the fourth with several millions of dollars, with his father now humbly eating out of his hand, and with his lips glued to those of tue flapper inside the pink dress. Indeed, so familiar Is the tale that even Owen Davis, who is surely no alarm clock, anticipated Swan in the rewriting ot it, as witness "Mile-a-Minu le Ken-uali, Ken-uali, produced in the Lyceum theater two years back. To give tho most recent shooter at the moss-covered target duo credit, it must be set down that lie has Injected into the old bones one or two diverting situations situa-tions anci one or two rather humorous lines. But his play, in its other essentials, essen-tials, has, been living around this neiah-hrt, neiah-hrt, enr ,'? lon that U wi" Probably excitemeTtC ",e "P a"y s'"eat Jirnest Glendennlng has the rolo of the young man who makes the final act fortune for-tune out of a tack-proof automobile tire and is as affected as usual. James Bradt bury is amusing In a low comedy role-Miss role-Miss Miriam Sears has the pink dress hi ervtu r?Ud,'y CUn'-3 is con,icaieat intervals, if always crude. In the role of a garage employe. Tho production is well mounted. The sponsor is Charles Lmerson cook. cuaucs Of the Same Kidney. ,''S,car!a!'" hy Cosmo Hamilton, exposed In the Imrty-hinth street theater is the Robert W. Chambers sort of thim' ob yiously designed to appeal to hat noi SW; r.llon. or ti,e whh at ,L f, i hth.ng remuneratively fs to li n rai ed'SraPl'y ot' a bedroom. , i , th'.hcd remuneratively -bv the ?!tterrHnwi','. ljiQl.V cf a bedroom 6 or - v ! hierary distinction and oii?.na.iy ofu-red up as a magazine serin I and moving picture, the play lies in the whota"'e "J a "& societ salamander no. m order to extricate herself from sel'f sn;aSrnS Pred''ent, proclaims heV Self secietiy married lo a wealthy bach,' lor conveniently at hand. 'aJU' baene- When the curtain is hoisted aaln w loudly deniands of the lowering t,atCd' der his rights as , Lba, d AfTi", of door-locking. lvr,st-c..u m,,, ,a ,ot ing quieu breathing 3t t girl stamping morally out o i l ' thc and brit.ging ,i0wn the-curtain 1 act, as further dulv antieipatod , , st are found legally married 1 ' "10 UviU" rnia Ingenious fable, which anoe,r, , wtt? B!?a?t SoS Larnmore shows progiess bur L ' ,' " liss capped as heretofore by a spe- kh, J1', nrl1-that nrl1-that resembles a secoud'-h ,i . s VOK'0 Mr Cherry succeeds m n kin lu"":- Has Poor Vehicle. Miss Grneo George's current i , ;?? v'ould a,,ri 'se I")!.,'- ',,;' n,,!?,e ,,s Mark Heed and ono of e noo " bv mado visible in some t., e Fav ,,' s |
