Show PERCY HAMMONDS HAMMOND'S tEllER J I Copyright 1923 N Y T Tribune Inc Ine NEW YO YORK IU Mav May lq 1 Many Many of ofus ofus ofus us went nent to see sec the tho colored pIa ore ers act Oscar Wilds Wildes Salome the theother theother other night expecting to find adark a adark adark dark brown or at nt least a dus dusk du k Prin- Prin Princess Prin-cc Prin cess cc s of Judea not with thick Up and 1 wool hair of course curso but at least a D trifle negroid It might ho be amusing me e v e thought to hear th Young Syrian refer to the lady II e inky person as a II silver sliver flower a narcIssus trembling In the th WI I I tor lor to speak peak of ot her brune bruce little f and as fluttering white butter butter- butterflies flies tiles We had however reckoned with with- without out ut the th bleaching powers of mis- mis mis I We bad had forgotten that romance and nd between the rices fend rend to decolorize and that MIss lIss Evelyn Preer though a mem mem- member member ber of the th Ethiopian Art Theatre aught be almost a as a's q white hito as t te sno that Herod called for being thIrsty after acter a 11 a So wh when n Miss Preer as Salome strolled out upon the Tetrarchs ter terrace terrace race very ery bright and cloudless e e 11 iere ere a 0 bit startled She appeared to be as fair as most brunette play play- play era are ar and with no traces of an African ancestry Since she Is so much while hit and so o little HUh black blaek c e wondered why they should call her heran heran heran an Ethiopian actress s But after alt it seems scenic that that Is what hat hat she has has to be a colored woman though hite Miss lIss Preer pictures Salome wIth witha a re resonant voice an athletic stage stae manner md ald a relentless abandon that make Mio 1188 Mary ary Garden s bus bus bus- bus liko noss liko Impersonation seem a shrinking timidity She exposes her charms In a flaunting which for purposes es of nudity Is as lucid a regalia as I have ever seen In tho the drama You are familiar or of course with the episode at the mouth of the dungeon dun eon wherein Si Sm- Sm h I lome slakes her filthy passion with Ith the heal of o John the Baptist Well this so-called so colored lady by her unflinching d tall in that odd amour sho shows s that she can act She makes few She sai- sai wal wallows al- al allows lows gracefully about the th cistern cisterns s srim rim not caring if her Ivory shanks and knee cap grow some somewhat hat be- be begrimed begrimed be begrimed grimed In the thc process This I su- su su suspect Is conscientious art rather than good because soiled calves and thighs are ar not It I is s said ald a vendible spectacle Most of the other Ethiopians in Salome are aa us you might expect them to be a 0 troupe of Inexperienced ed cd though talented negroes and negroes near doing the best they know Inow how with a 11 cruel cruet assignment Raymond 0 their white or tor and Mrs Irs Sherwood Anderson Anderon theIr s chaperon hope to supply them later latr with a n reporter of the negro plays In which they belong Meantime they propose to todo todo todo do arty burlesque of E The Taming of the and The Comedy of ot Errors S S SIf It If lou OU u visit New ew York Tork within the next week or so and will Ita have hae 0 but butt butto t to 0 nights to de devote ote to drama drama- loving drama 10 I 1 suggest that you hesitate a little before going to Pride or orMy My Iy Aunt From Both are recent products but neither I tear is a safe adventure ad for Cor those who are aro thrifty In their New York going th theatre going tre Pride l is an n old old- old fashioned stuffed stuffed shirt b by Thompson Buchanan treating of an International marriage Miss Ililda as IlS a rich and senti sentimental mental C marries Mr Fred as the Due do Valmont a 11 afine atine fine and Frenchman though addicted to adultery Therefore forc sho ebo casts him hini off Later she sho sh discovers him working as a 11 waiter waller in a m New NewYork NewYork NewYork York hotel He had lost his eh cha- cha chateau cha chateau and everything In the war and he Is nobly down and out Their daughter Miss Juliette Day brings le Ie due and I La U d duchesse together In Inthe inthe Inthe the last scene and herself becomes married to ono of the richest and most patrician p members of ot the theLong theLong theLong Long Island yachting set My Aunt From Ypsilanti seems to ate s to be merely a sloppy adap adap- adaptation adaptation adap- adap adaptation tation of ono one of customary farces In tho French of Paul It may ive h-ive been a delicate impropriety but as It ap ap- ap irs pe pears on Broadway It Is 15 just an awkward and blowsy approximation approximation tion endeAvorIng to transfer ParI Paris to th the RotarIan atmo of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York a 8 Greenwich Village MIss Florence Shirley an model very ery prettily and Miss Jane Jano Richardson as another Ingenious wanton of Washington most neati But the farce I think I Is one of tho mot most dire of its sort Henry Baron the producer of the tho successful The Rubicon Is the Impresario of My Cy Aunt fro 00 00 |