4 on ^ a the Greatest - Where Plays* M&iHJ i ¦¦.Stages, Blazed Trail Sporting Coodt 'Cosi Fan Tutti' and Some Cros»e$ Store Modern Plays Compared the Boulevard in the World Theory of the Theater That Comedy Should Not Be Madison Avenue and Forty-fifth Street , Injected Into Scenes Which Are of Dramatic In- 1 tent Dispelled by Present Day Playwrights.

By LAWRENCE REAMER. The Dress of Sportsmen AFTER all, the present age is less exacting than it might seem. The public of Vienna, which late in the eighteenth century was called upon to admire Mozart's music to "Cosi fan Tutti," one of the notable triumphs of the season at the Metropolitan Opera House, listened In delight to the measures of the composer, but was frankly scornful of the text which Lorenzo da Ponte had supplied. Learned commentators have told of the various efforts to eliminate this libretto which excited the Impresarios of every country and nearly every period of operatic history since Vienna heard the work. Yet unsatisfactory as it may have. been to the critics, Da Ponte's play suited the music better than any other. So it has survived down to our own day. Joseph II. is said to have commanded the Viennese librettist to use the story, which is also said to have been the event of an actual flirtation of that day. Nowadays the sophisticated sneer at the naive view of a librettist who started out with the hypothesis that two women would fall to recognize their betrothed when they return to court them. Both have gone to the wars. Both have returned to prove that fickleness is the way of all women. Both lay siege to the hearts of the two ladles. Neither is recognized. They succeed in establishing the almost invariable weakness of woman under a vigorous courtship. Terribly old fashioned, eh? Just as bad as all the critics say? Possibly only of course In such a rococo period of the theater as the eighteenth century! Are all these observations really founded on fact? How about Franz Molnar and his successful play called In its European form "The Life Guardsman"? Harrison Grey Fiske produced it here at the Lyceum Theater with Miss Rita Jolivet and William Courtleigh in the leading roles. The drama called "Where Ignorance Is Bliss" was given on a sultry night before an audience of bored routineers at such occasions. a in It made no Impression and was soon withdrawn. It did not meet with HERE is shop New York favor in England, but swept triumphantly over the Continent. a town man MISS where outfits for the Its story is concerned with a jealous husband, who comes back to DOROTH his wife disguised as a soldier for the purpose of establishing her fidelity. TETLEy IN country as he would in London. She does uot recognize him with the uniform and the in his "BULLDOG- changes DRUMMON It is the natural of the uppearance. ane is inacea quite as KNICKERBOCKER.! development lacking in acuteness as the two young men's department of the Abercrombie ladles of Venice are in Da Ponte s text. She ought to have been su¬ & Fitch store. perior to them after a quarter of a century In which to improve. She 4'Where the Blazed Trail Crosses the remains, however, just the same, has become also the which Is an observation that may MtSS IRENE Boulevard" spot truthfully be made of the useful dra¬ BORDONI. "Where London's West End Meets the at all times. IN " The FRENCH matic legends DOLL'.'..- LYCEUM Town and Needs of New .T.iivvfnl Larceny'*' Time Schedalc. Country Samuel Shlpman has made "Lawful York Men." larceny." which seems to keep the Republic Theater constantly flUed. a ,-otcnt factor In such a happy mana- Wrlal result by alternating comedy Tweeds, Shetlands and Saxonies una serious emotion with unfailing effectiveness. One example »f the method which keeps the Found at No Other Place nately engrossed and amusedpublic,alIn¬P vide* by the conflict between Miss rjall Kane and Miss Margaret^aw- Men's Suits and Topcoatt rence. Miss Lawrence is in the play for Both deserted wife who obtains employ¬ Country and Town ment in the homo of Miss Kane. a Exclusive Patterns More or less unconventional resident Limited to a Few of Park avenue.dramatists have or Very s.iken Riverside drive as the lair of Yards Each ? he vamp-in order to revenge her- Made for , w io matic values. It used to be one of the irom the game by than forty thousand standees were Equally Exclusive . center of the MISS .amisResolutely in the theories of the "theater that comedy admitted during the run. The only a billiard cue * not be into scenes M ARGtARET in the London Market stngc. She carries should injected change of cast from the first per- LAW IN -om. were in intent. Bad RJE.NCE. " sh, -rnes which dramatic forma nee was the substitution of Miss was one the made 'LAWFUl'FUL LARCEKV Maxwell Spurs, JbeJ. taste of charges Kathleen Martyn for Miss Mary Hay. PU&LIC, TERRY IN and Pushers 'Jlances^at it and shivers apprehen- against the playwrights who did this Miss Dickson Is the "FOR Crops u Law- of The sense a scene Dorothy playing GOODNESS S*KE. He is fearful of Miss sort thing. of title role In Liondon and the So »o should be homeganeous. It had to other for- LVRICv Orders Taken for S'. fate. cities to see will be th« > in one mood. Such at least were eign "Sally" Paris, Maxwell Boots nuzzled Amazon,adroitlyapologetic*!"J keep Berlin and Melbourne. The produc¬ Riding th. CM the theories of the mandarins of yes¬ *"1 teryear. tion at the New Amsterdam Theater ? Now the playwrights follow the ex¬ was put on by Edward Rojnce under Did You Hear »r£ isss. the direction of Mr. Theatrical Calendar. into lauehter. and the mood of the act reverse of this system of making Ziegfeld. b » comic. their scenes. To add a and for a minute altogether Jocund named. He mentioned the trick and (he All the Niceties of Attire these alt6ratio"" snappy fall to a dramatic dog Is the TO.^lOHT. English "trsext to Ingenious Sothern and Marlowe That Ed Wynn Is a Better name of his boat. effort of every playwright. Half the "I asked the next day." he wrote, "and FORTY-JJINTH STREET THEATER for , ... . notMn. «, success of "The Bat." which seems a Appear in Newark Mind Reader Than He found thero was no mich name on the .Special performance of Nlklta Country Gentlemen j.l theater permanence now, is due to the passenger list. T never thought again of Balleffa Chauve Sourla for the l^rcen. late He Waa? one besin in the successful manner In which the pub¬ E. H. Sothern and Miss Julia Marlowe Thought the matter until I heard morning benefit of starving Russian artists The Unusual Colorings afternoon. Two or three oMho its nerves to the of will at the Broad that a passenger had been found dead lic, rasped point appear Street Theater in hla berth. I asked and It of the theater and their families. in Men's Neckwear <£ar- soothed the In Newark for one week to¬ the name, shrieking, is suddenly by beginning wan the fellow talked to that night IB^an^1ncewant ..(killed manipulation of the funny morrow night, with a mhtlnee on Satur¬ Hjr l.CCIEN CLITEH, you M05DAT. and Kerchiefs aXr? day only. Mr. Sothern and Mien Mar¬ In the theater. He had taken paesaRc for . Demanded, uctloi^jhich bone. There are other customs for lowe will ED WTN'N received the other day no late that hla name wan not on the VA3DERBILT THE ATER Oliver Country There -Probable other In not be seen in New York city T Wear in "jTnSKl days in every art, especially this spring, and as they will not act next a letter wMch interested the passenger list, and for that reason Morosco presents Miss Charlotte England ,n the continual find out he wan on board the noble art of the drama. season their engagement in Newark could not If Greenwood In a new musical com¬ household. Men comeva-.t-^ntoftheand go.at al comedian so much that he has when I asked about him flrst. I am of marks their laat appearance In this vi¬ edy entitled In Waistcoats, Sweaters, hours but then It is that sort of Tke Fait "tally." cinity until the autumn of 1923. Their so far forgotten to show it to his press writing to ask you If you really knew "Letty Pepper." Shirts there must be certain when you said he was her are Ray household. Existence After seeing the piece tarry longer tour ends at the Lyric Theater in Phila¬ agent. The writer was a sailor who anything aupport Raymond. and destructive to beauty, however, as he delphia on April 29. going to have a hard time. If any thing Misses Jane and Mary Klnr and Sporting Hosiery than of the wise men of Broad¬ somewhat more than a month sat was to or was that ,.i-,inn ts also up all night. She .any ago going to happen him, Frances Victory. Master Gabriel Oolf Stockings way thought possible, Flo Zlegfeld 1s In the of the Cohan Theater Just a part of the trick?" Mr. Wynn is . balcony also and Mlas Joale Intropldl. The book Measuring She goes to going to take "Sally" away from the wondering. lover's disloyalty. New Amsterdam Theater and send her Attractions in the with a messmate to witness "The Per¬ la by Moroaco and George V. Ho- to the Same Standard room escorted by one of the 'ndis- Salaries Will G» Dowi, bart, baaed on a story by Charles will to Boston. Doubtless theater remlnls- fect Fool." l#lke the rest of the spec¬ nonVable men friends. She n°t. Brooklyn Theaters The organisation of various coopera¬ Klein. The lyrlca are by Leo Wood Sticks, comforted. After an In cencers will In the future frequently tators, he was absorbed in Wynn's and Hlbo And the music Walking however. be tive companies, the difficulty In finding Irving by Umbrellas t. rval b* reappears to say thait he refer to "Sally" Just as they now point Philip Klein will present "I^ady Bus-." mind reading stunt. He pricked up Werner Jansaen. take ner to "Adonis" or "A to Chinatown" n any kind of regular employment and the and Cloves ciunnot calm ner and must Trip farce by Frances Nordstrom. with his ears when he heard the comedian THCRSPAT. Riding a drive. or "Llghtnln'" to draw some sort of a John Cumberland and Marie Nordstrom other hardships that the actors have en¬ out for By every plausible man In an orchestra seat that must then 4 conclusion as to the of this or heading the cast, at. the Majestic The¬ tell n countered this season will. In the opinion WI5TER OARBE.V.L«c and J J. Men's Shoes and Boots calculation it rights Shubert will this What the <*" that kind of a tp so much ater the coming week. The play, which he wan going to Nassau the next day.! of at least one manager with large Inter- bring houao hack for Town the morning. ^ play occupy In this for the first effect the to the legitimate for the summer Every this«»«\tJstsfact ¦ P the time. plays city time, listened to hear the cats, have the of reducing Internal evidence of of public's (leaIs with a feminine faddlat. So he intently salaries of players for the future. with Eddie Cantor In a revue, and Country Need , ided by the Incidents of the following So It will be of great service to their Out of deforenco to the scruples of name of the packet on which he was "Tho days of the Inflated compensation "Make It Saappy." featuring Mlas " friends and to the editors write a number of his Nan Book ami they large regular patrons to make the journey. Hla own boat of actors are pretty well past, In my Halperln. lyrlca are The Country Miss Lawrence, ha.lng accomplished letters to and the other Louis F. Werba. manager and lessee this said to the re¬ by Harold Atteridge, with addi¬ persons they the opinion," manager Gentleman's Complete her purpose. Is again, to the relief of may take Into their confidence if they of the Montauk Theater, announces was sailing next morning. The porter of Thi Nbw Tork Hkrai.d, "for tional lyrics by A1 Bryan. Music la Which One her husband, at home. She will mark, learn and that the playhouse will be "dark" next sailor wondered If the fellow down¬ they hav« seen from experience how by Jean Schwarts. Cantor will ap¬ Outfit, Inwardly digest week (Holy Week). The to white donlably had what would be hasu^..ailed a an following stairs waa to be a passenger on her. difficult It Is for any of them really pear In face. Others In the Has Found Heretofore the following facts contained In week he will bring back for a brief en¬ draw the amounts have been claim¬ company will be Miss Lillian Flts- hard night. So her request for which has come But It took a long time to get the they in London's official history from gagement "Llghtnin"." ing. If a play appeals to the public the gerald. Lew Hearn. Joe Opp. J. Only i, .natural. .Tust how rnuch .he must the of the New Amster¬ Father." the name of the vessel. Wynn improvised West End In the final chancellery "Bringing Up musical while he with attendance will be good. Tf It la not to Harold Murray and Teddy Wabb. Shops have needed it Is proved dam Theater concerning Mr. Zlegfeld** show based on Oeorge McManus'a car¬ observations struggled the taste of playgoers the piece will fall. Purveying lines of the play. When It Is ready toons, cornea to Teller's Bhubert Theater. his assistant to get the name. The I wish oould know the 8ATT7RBAT. her husband to share her production: Bessie Barrlscale, movie will eluded him. He only you really to the Sclect Few > rhe Invito "Sally" was first Intended as a star, signal repeatedly reeolpta to which two popular women JOLSOWR THEATER."Da Wolf breakfast. So it Is presumably the appear in person at the Orpheum in a could not read the hard as the star* now In this are means of making a star out of Miss sketch. Others will be key, Just city playing Hopper'a Funmakera," headed by hour for that meal. Since he has pre- "8tars of Yes¬ down in fhe audience tried week. have been eo low for tha noted comedian, will a Marilyn Miller. Tt was Mr. Zlegfeld terday," the Weaver brothers and Rae confederate every They present Kleanor Ball. to tip him off. "You're going on u the last month that they would astonish revue combining all phaaes of an- with who after the flrst production sug¬ you The managers are holding on In tertalnmant, from musical r.re sympathizes of the voyage." the comedian said. "I know comedy Hnpetlte. Nothing would t^*'^be moreh^n.in gested the part tipsy duke that all I also know the hope that Easter may bring an Im¬ through drama to grand opera, which made I>ron Errol also a star In right. you're If It does out called "Home (..resting to admirers ofthepleythan AT COM'MHIA. to have s hnrJ time." provement not, they go. T'arty." Included In was going "Yet have ttf an the cs*t ara William nn official time schedule of T'awf"' the piece, and It written In after was for tlm« they pay expensive Courtlelgh. the had been delivered to "Harvest Time" Is the title of the Wynn only sparring company, which Is not Improving mat¬ William B. Mack. Jefferson De An- tgreeny." Tt would make the manuscript new two net burlesque that will he while this prophecy was made. He dbercrornbie &. Fitch Co ters the least. Mr. ZlegMd. to know what to In Actors In cooperative gell«, T/«w Dockat-ader, Misses MiM-blna as it is now vastly moreiJ®*\ai given at the Columbia Theater this com¬ wanted call the boat. are In some cases Haawell. Nanette a he he i-ompanlea earning Tercy Flack and Ezra H. Fitch, President ,rible as a human document. Future After Ave weeks preliminary tour ing week. It is described as having Finally got the key from his aid ; less than half they demand from man¬ l/oulae new the name Macklntoah. Seott Welsh, (.operations would be enaoied.to draw out of town, "Sally" was acted at the clean fun, vaudeville specialties called out accurately and agers. If they were worth what they Sam Ash, Herbert Wateroua. Harry as to the New Amsterdam Theater on Decem¬ and an extensive display of scenery and passed on to another problem. Wynn they would bo drawing the C. Madison Avenue and interesting conclusions night costumes. The cast the Incident. He say money Browna, John Henahaw, John Forty-fifth Street life avenue in this era. ber It has run for of comedians, sing¬ forgot might. Indeed, to the theatre. Take It from me. ther-* Hendrlcka, Misses Prlmmaa of Park 22,1920. seventy-two ers and dancers I* headed Bert Bcr- never have of it hut for Csryll the conven¬ estimated by thought again has been a readjustment of value* this and Virginia Futrelle, Grant Miuch as he may upset weeks, and It la that the trand, who has the assistance of Harry a letter that came to him at the theater. Billy of seen a mil¬ winter which la going to have Its In- and Mlas Ruth Adair. tions! view of the purpose the piece has been by nearly H. T,a Van. <1ene Scbuller, Gertrude It was from the sailor who, with his pal. 111 sleeping hours. Mr, Shlpma-n is almost lion ntwl a half people. Only once was Ralston and Dot Ramette. had wit In the tislcony on a date he Continued on Following rage. 4