Show L PERCY PEY HAMMONDS HAMMOND'S AMMONDS AMMOND'S LETTER lETIER 1 I NEW YORK YORI Jan Jon 2 It 2 It X I were ere to be bo asked to nominate thO men inert pia whose hose work nod orl this sea sea- season season son entitles entities them them to bo be called actors I should hould mako make the tho tol- tol fat fol following 10 lowing list Lionet Barr more In The Tho I Piker I Gorge George Arliss In Old English Richard rennet In Thc The Knew I hat w hat The They Rudolph In ThE Mongrel 0 o P r Heggle Heggie In Alter Huston In Desire Un- Un Under Un-der Un dr der the tho rams lims r Joul Louis an and William WIlliami i Boyd In M hat bat Price Glor I Alfred Aifred Lunt In 11 Tho The Guards Guardsman Guardsman I man There a ale aie Ie many effective e exhibItion exhibitions of or In lii town hut the tho foregoing stand out as I actors rather than titan as lIa performers 1 hey promote their vocation from its lis status s R-s I Ia a a mero mere knack to something resembling an art Character actors used to be bo the most unappreciated of those em- em em employed plo e by tIme the Muses Tho pia er ho lost lot himself In hi his part so- so sodom cc sc-doin sc dom domn w was as permitted to wear ear it ear I 1 tic he dubious aureole of popularity Now No It seems s we e enjo unselfish acting and tind the actors who thInk moro of o their rol roles than Ih they y do doof doof of their ow 0 own n Individuality ar art lor regarded by the tho public with con con- conI con considerable favor ta or I Mr Barr more as a tragic sneak thief in rile rho Piker Is I that and nothing else cite It is hIs job to a mean little I hank bank messen messenger er infatuated b bv a II rate chorus girl nil Miss Irene Ireno rate renwick 11 Anxious lous to please Item hel he steals 50 from the bank In Ino I o del to purchase a readY readY-mads I suIt of or clothing with Ith two h 0 pairs of pants Imants Much lInch 10 lo his dismay heI ho ito I discovers er that ho Ito has stolen notS not S 50 50 O but 50 He lIe tiles 1110 hIs best to 10 live P up to his achievement but hI his soul Is vellow and he lie can can- cannot cannot can cannot not be anything an but a 0 piker Mr more pl pictures tures this pitiable j Insel with whit uncompromising tl 11 fl delit It Is a complete epro- epro i lepro I 1 I like to io think that I ani hard to tool fool but Mr Sir n r more I delved cle ived me in The Piker an and I Imad mad math mo mime e that he ho wa 1 u Bernie Kaplan not Lionel Barry Barry- Barrymore more Barry more Miss MIsa Margaret JA Lawrence rence and Mi 11 Leslie Howard engaged them them- themselves eh selves es last week In a 11 do downy dony ny flirta flirta- flirtation flirtation tion called Isabel Sho She was the pride of a mock meek biologist he ho a lIm handsome and not o bandit aeX Although they thoy en- en endeavored en endeavored to be good they thoy tailed failed and the play ended In a midnight I In the tho garden by the tho brookside Isabel Isabol being a short dram Mr Barrio s Shall hall We 0 JoIn the Ladles LadiCs was added on to It This episode described whim whim- whimsically sl ally bv bI b the tha author aa ns the first act of a 0 new play was ns an inter inter- Inter fiting trick The sinister head or of ora ofa ota a country house party searching Iner I for the murderer of o his brother tortured his twelve guests gUels with Ith his hi suspicions Each of ot them at the thelast thelast thelast last dinner seemed scented to betray hIs guilt under the tho auntIe probing of iho he host It was nis 8 a somber bit of fooling but its lis performance 01 ap imp appeared peered to lack lael the tIme ingenuity e s to the de development of ot the idea Ideo E I is back baek with lIh his Chauve and tho tito Ing ous nu oils ous cognoscenti of this neighbor neighbor- neighborhood neighborhood hood I Is therefore enraptured lie He seem scents to be a more sophisticated middleman than titan ho he was two ears ago The suggestion of ot timidity which he ho used to time tIle naive e proceedings hn has disappeared disappeared and nohe now no he ho Is most neigh neigh- neighborly borly bony an and at home His Ills too has an added confidence It ItIs itis ItIs Is said aid that Br Belled Delict 8 acquaint acquaint- acquaintance a ance nce with our speech is consider consider- considerably considerably considerably ably closer eloer than he ho pretends It to bo be b and that hi his contentions with It are aro feigned Ills letters to 10 Gest Geat at any rate ate nio mood mod models mod models els of grammatical Last he lie abandoned some of this amusing sham and was as more moore elo- elo do- do elo eloquent quent Quert more and I thought more moore humorous iIi HI Ills Ills- r- r ro I mar mark between time Iho numbers con con- contained contained tamed even quotations front CopernIcus and Loe Lovea Labor Lost Tho The Chauve Souris en- en en entertainment Is red gree green purple arid and Russian RUllan and It Is much ad admired mired by those who ho like the tho bet bet- better bet better ter simpler and more foreign things |