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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1322 AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS PHILADELPHIA'S LEADING THEATRES, DIRECTION LEE J. J. SHUBERTl Blackstonc Did Not Interest Him far in the remote past of YaJlhn Comfort, who is recognized a one of Amprica's leading-tenor and a Teuderillo favorite, is a dark secret. Ilia greatest fame, so far as Philadel- She Predicts the Futu re of Flappers Owen Davis? one of America's playwrights, has added to his list of authentic characterizations a perfect delineation of the modern flapper. One of the species appears in his play, SAM COTTRE'PT 2 Beg Mon- 0ct Se8t Tomor' Oil wLIll 1 Prieaa.

$8.50 0. m-mm. w.t.Wad. Baat geata. $1,60 Bat.

Mat. Baat Seat. $2 a Fox picture, 'The Tot-emfte Trail." with Frank Canipeau doing dark, Fossibly a long time after'these two eentlemen bave retired from the stage and screen they will send their pons to play opposite each other. For such rivalry can continue like vendettas of old. Perhaps th" coming Farnum will adopt the role of villain and the scion of the Campeaii line will oblige- by becoming the hero of tie piece.

For they can never relinquish their rivalry. The Victorian Theatre will fihow The Yosernite. Trail" this week. Farnum and Rival Meet in Play When "The Virginian" scored its success on the stage years ago. Duetin Farnum had the leading role and Frank Catnpean Tva the villain of the play.

For a long time the ebo'w held a favorite place among matinee followers With the pasf-irg of time we now find that Dustin Farnum is the star in assembled many of the unit organizations, other big producers were inv'tcl to urnke productions for the ISlnibert circuit and accepted the offer. A feature of the Shubert plan is th" presentation at each performance of i high-class musical revue, to run for about an hour aud forty-five minutes of the nearly fhre-ho(ir show, the remainder, of-' the bill' being individual consisting of the very best acts and novelties obtainable. The err tire programme, however. i always kept Intact, traveling theatre to theatre as a solid unit. Tb Messrs.

Shubert Praanbi Their Greateat N. Y. Century Tbnatra HATZ ION IN THE NEW VENNESE OPERETTA AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS ii it; Tessa Talks of Her Career and Work Tessa Kosta, the brilliant, young prima donna who has scored such an em phatic success in the Messrs. Shuberts' New York Century Theatre production, "The Rose of the raging musical hit of Europe and America, will be seen at the Sam Shubert Theatre for two weeks beginning October 9, b-gan her career as a dancer, In the chorus of various road companies until George Lederer, impressed with her earnestness, gave her a part in "Madam Sherry," and later put her in the lead iu a company touring the Canadian Provinces with that piece. At this period of her career she had what was thought a nice little voice and could get away with a ballad or some patter song as an adornment to the dances, but no one suspected the beautiful vocal organ which sue really possessed.

One day, however, she thought she might take some lessons in singing. Fortunately, she went to a teacher capable of recognizing real voices and she began to bring out her real tonal qualities. "I was as much surprised a anyon that it was going to be possible for me to really develop a voice of quality," said Miss Kosta in discussing the discovery. "Of course, it made me very happy to know that such gift was mine, but that did not take away the surprise. So I left the stage and for a year and a half I worked and worked.

And people out front little know what real labor a singer has to do to really eing correctly. "At length was ready, but that was only the beginning. I was a dancer and known as a dancer, and having that label talked on me by the managers they would not easily believe I could (' V.V' ir CUi9aaiaMaUBiaaaaawaEMBW QDGQ tj Opening of The Season Z-2 MAT.THURS3!.M RCJ SAT SOO seTi PRICES 11 'j A- 1 "a V. -V Je AV iJ "5 OTINEE SATURDAY BFST STS 1.50 1 I I ali I 1 A Sto of he Heart MOST FAMOUS PLAV I NJ AMERICA OA HAZEL DAW from The pen of McKay Scotch Revue ''YATTDEYTLLE LAUOK FEAST" GLENN MTvJ Fr TH DOUGLA? AU CE MEGEHAN) WAT? ft A KATE DOUGLAS WIGOIN PAYTON WARD BIG 'LA'tTGK WITH A "Up- the Ladder." which "William A. Brady is presenting at the Walnut Street Theatre now.

Martha Madison, an Ingenuous-looking young girl, who plays 'the rol of the flapper in the piece, haa a few words to say on the subject. "I committed an epigram about it," she tells you eerionsly. "I have the theory that the modern girl is not so scarlet as she is painted. Beneath the surface she -has-all the qualities- that have made the American woman a splendid sort of a person. "She is intoricated with her freedom.

That is inevitable, but she'll recover from that, I think, and settle down to a more normal life, a more normal way of thinking and acting than girls have had for generations, She's been given an inch and gone right out and taken several ells, but they will begin to pall on her pretty soon, and she'll retreat to a happy medium. "As for her dress the short skirt, the insouciant angle of her hat, the boyish, sensible shoes, ars certainly more desirable, both from an aesthetic and a hygienic standpoint, than' the high heels, the open-work waists, the funny guimpes with bones sticking into their necks that th girls of ten years ago were wearing and their parents were wailing over those clothes, if. I remember correctly. "Its the old, old conflict between the way of age and the w-ay of yonth. Personally, because I belong to it, I suppose, I'm rooting for the much-maligned younger generation." 4 pitiens know, has been gained as a minstrel and a vaudeville feature, but tb secret is tbur he once played the lead in Tern's Cabin." He also spresred in "East, Lynne." "Th" Two Orphans." and even "Little Lord Faun-tleroy." It so happened that Vaughn Comfort made his profesioDal debut.

r.ot as a Pingrer. but as an in the old Philadelphia Stock Company. He made his tirst. public appearance as a choir boy in St. Mary's Chnrch.

in this city. He was supposed to study law-, but his roice caused him to be in great demand at all ports of concerts and entertainments, and be began to find Blackf-tone more than a bore. He was offered a chance to go on the road with the Philadelphia Stock Company and yladly accepted---without iroing through the formality of notifying his parents. They were shocked at bis action and wrote him accordingly. But when, after elx mocths on the road.

A'aughn returned fi leading man of the company, the family duly relented and even went so far as to purchase a box for his opening night in the home town. Several years ago. when CJeorge M. Cohan and Sam Harris conceived the idea of forming an all-star minstrel show with (ieorge "Honey Hoy" Evans at its head, Comfort wa chosen as interlocutor, and at the close of this engagement he formed a partnership with Harry King and played in vaudeville. He is now playing a three years' contract with the B.

F. Keith Circuit, with Jim mi is Jones, a wizard at the piano, end is one of the features of the bill at POP. MATINEE, 50c to $1.50 LAST MAT. Best Scats $2.00 GFkEEN, LANG PISER "THE THREE MELODY BOYS" I. 4.

AST WEEK TOMOROT I I JOHN HENRY MEAftS s- rv HAZEL HAS LAM CO. Corner Plivlt. "PalUah Rtjn" NORTON WILSON "A REAL COMEDY PAIR" SENSATIONAL TOGO "A REAL THRILL" 4 A Wlir.O FELIX BIO TWO-PART COMEDY KICKING FOOL" WITH MATTD THE SEASON'S BIG COMEDY BILL TH3 I PEGGY WOOD afVATBB iU'1 p. B. F.

Keith's Theatre here this week- sing. At length Morris Gest gave me the chance in "Chu 'Chin Chow" as the Shubert Vaudeville Begin FEATtTRE. EDUCATIONAL NEWS TEATTXRE8 Comfort and Jones are both prominent Singing Slave Girl. My frionds could The Dea Matin, lfc 20c; Chldrn, War except Batardy and Holiday. Tax includeo.

FEMININE 6LOSSOMS OF RARE BEAUTY members of the Philadelphia Lodge of Elks, and for the past two seasons, i when they opened their vaudeville tour in this city, the Elks celebrated the event by giviDg a special Elks' Night at Keith's, and they will repeat the event next Wednesday night in honor of their favorites. Sweetest Story Ever Told With the last of the renovators who for the past month or more have been brightening tip the Chestmft Street Opera House expected to complete their task this week, opening of that popular amusement place for the current season under the unit system policy of Shubert 'Vaudeville is announced for October t. The management promises a big surprise bill for the opening attraction and for the present is keeping the make-up of the programme a secret. It is known, however, that the Shubert organization has been busy all not believe it was rejilly me up there on the stage and singing as I did. Then later.

George M. Cohen engaged me for the, prima donna role in "The Royal Vagabond." There I had a chance to sing, but there whs not much acting, ami was sure could act. "Then and the role of Kitty MacKay iu'd "The Chocolate Soldier," and now the part I have in "The Rose of Stamboul is just my ideal part. It gives me an opportunity to sing good music and act, too. BEG.

OCT. TK. BEATS THURSDAY The Meaara. iShubart Pre. en th Mualcal Comedy SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH PHILADELPHIA'S FOREMOST THEATRES rRKD O.

NIXCN-1TIEDIISGER. Mnginir Director. THOMAS M. XOrE. 1 nTd TOMORROW EV'G.

FOR 1 Pop.Mat.Wed.&5at OLGA STECK LANCASTER AVE. BELOW 418T MATINEES, 8:16 ETENINGS. 7 9 WITH GEORGE MACFARLANE And Great Cait InelaAfn- HABRT KKI.I.T "The Beggar's Opera" at Metropolitan Written some two centuries ago. isiCUKE VOlJH StAiS AT BOX OFFICE OS. BY KAIL VKVavl" IKE SPECULATORS WHO FOLLOW THIS ATTRACTION FROM CITY TO CITY FOR A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT trimmed down and produced by an Eng- Returns to Scene of Former Success Wten the two-reel thriller was the cifue in motion pictures some tea years ago, one of the most popular stars of the day in that style of film entertainment was Barbara Tennant.

Titian-haired erari with big. luminous hazel ere, Barbara Tennant was one-hundred and twenty pounds of charming personality. What Mary Talmage and the other screen idols are to the movie fans of today as was Miss Tennant to the picture theatre 5 BIG ACTS5 HOLLAND O'DEN MISS PERT SUE KELTON" EI.EA'OR OBIITITn HARRY K. MORTON and ZELLA RUSSELL AND OTHERS. WITH A ROSE ATT OARDEN OT RAIXI AJNT OTRLB summer in booking aud assembling the biggest acts and features of vaudeville, musical comedy and the so-called legitimate stage for its thirty-five unit vaudeville productions, all of which are intended to play simultaneously in as many theatres of the Shubert string throughout the country.

The unit company plan for Shubert di manager. 1 he Beggar Opera will be presented at the Metropolitan Opera House for two weeks beginning October 3 0. During the engagement CECIL E. WESTON CO. MIITST-TnWTffltfs nopuiar-priced students' matinee will i a lSr 11 1 Ml 1 Vaudeville was tried out, in a way, as a sort of experiment last season, and met with pronounced, popular approval.

be given on Wednesday, starting at .4 o'clock. Tickots for the entire engagement will be placed on sale tomorrow at the box office of the theatre. WHITE, BLACK "USELESS' nSST WEST PHI LA. SHOWING RUPERT HUGHES SPARKLING COMEDY DRAMA hile the Shunerts themselves have ft yaw --ssifc. 11 jt I 2rv3 WECK OF WILLIAM A 5RADV9 COMEDY DRAMA HIT AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS "COME ON OVER" WHAT THE PADCRS SAYV fffVW WITH tfAOTG IAU6HTFC-THE s-e SIGN WILL spon se cut' trr A PLAY Of THE HOUR WITH TS HOMF-LV TRUTH AND SIMPLE $Hhf.

a plavjutt Pilled wjtw BRILLIANT MOMENTSSwrrf RECfIIVD 6Y A PACKED-HOU9E THAT WAS GENUINELY PLEASED" Ledr BELL (HANGED THURSDAY 4 CtI First HILADELPHIA Wm iiiK mm ACADEMY OF MUSIC. 1822-1923 FIVE SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS Thar id Eynlnr. Oct. 28, Not. It.

Xa. Not. i f5 II 2 ''HI TOP GOUVO PRESENTATION 14, Jan. It. F.b.

THE GREATEST MUSICAL COMEDY ORGANIZATION THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL NEW YORK CAST FT. A YEP TO CAPACITY FOK 8 YTARS AT THE SEW AMSTEHDAM, TtTW YOEK A S4 DOP.IS AlnlfrllfSli 7 1 KENVON GARRICK Last Week Vs8 STARTING MONDAY OCT. 2nd MAT. DAILY 2:15 at 8:15 Solointi i KOCfHAKBKI. YiaUmlst SPALDING.

Ytolinlst IVOGUN. Bowrana LEVITZKI. PlanUt WAGNER PROGRAM With. Soloist Tikts for larisa, $7.50. $.

18.50. 13.75; Bosas, $87.50. 160, $45, $40 1 now an aala it Hspve'i and Axjadnmr, Checka to Goo. T. Hly." NEW YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DAMROSCH ATbort Cota Giait Csndootor silHi IHj IS I ft A- THE ORIGINAL CA5T FROM THE PLAYHOUSE NEW YORK BAG.GAIN MAT.

WED-50IP 7 ia ii. "AN UNDILUTED JpT." kouth akemcak SAM H. HARRIS Pre. ROLAND YOUNG AN3 LAURA HOPE CREWS In CTiARB KOfMEE'S SPARK LID? FLAT SAT AT- 5 0 i i tQ COMING OCT. 16 ONE WEEK ONLY AND HIS OWN COMPANY OP INTERNATIONAL ENTEQTAINGRS AOAry 50 AMrS- WED THUPS'FCJ- sat- SO- JJ oo ACADEMY OF MUSIC WEDNESDAY 11 AT EVENING UV 1 II 8:15 HXTROIT PRESENTS THE RENOWNEI VIOLINIST MISCHA 7 PAST H' fj'l7 Popt.

St, ffpr. leie- Wnl -V LAST POPULAR PRICE MATINEES WED. AND 77c TO S2.M MONDAY, OCTOBER 9TH SEAT SALE THURSDAY SAM H. HARRIS -PRESENTS i- 1 fit 13 1BH1 I S3 3 0 1 A SVw PIiit Fonn-t-a on WTXLIAM SOMERSET MATTOHAITS STOB-T. "MISS THOMPSON," By JOHN COLTON CLEMENCE RANDOLPH WITH JEANNE EAGLES HIS FIRST RECITAL EN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN 5 YEARS Tiekata 60o to $2.50.

On tale tomorrow at Aoademr and Hepce'a. 1119 Chestnut St. Raolwv nil CompTt- Inclndimf: Holme. Katherlna Brook. BMrtrr Rter, Frlt Wtllitms.

Robert Elliot. Harwld HeeleT, Robert Kelly, Kant Thurbor, Emma wilooi, Kuthrm Kcnr.edT. Chief vrhiteh(C(rk. H. S.

QnleT. 9ted "Or John O. patrons cf a dca-ie back. Many persons, perhaps, will remember her in the old Eclair and World productions. Then, at the very zenith her career.

Miss Tennant disappeared from the silver shef. But, now. after an absence of seven years. Barbara Tennant is back on the screen, and here's the way it came about: When Richard Walton Tutly decided upon screening the famous stage success. "The Ma sqjrader." with Guy Bates Post in his original dual role, the production now at the Karlton Theatre, he contended that unless the very best available supporting company was procured the picture would not be made.

The Him version of the play built on Katherine Thurston's celebsated novel of thaf same name must, in eevry a.r. 'j'ja! or exceed in dramatic and artistic -worth the footiight production which had served Mr. Post as a starring vehicle for a number of seasons, both in this country and abroad, he said. One of the difficult roles to fill for the version of the play, it was found, was that of the sympathetic Rohbtns. Search for just the right type plus acting ability wins made throuab Who in filmdom.

None iv.3 discovered that met precisely the requirements that' Mr. TuHy deemed necessary faithfullv to portray the ensr-artpr Final tv. c-meon recalled the BROAD LAST WEEK Locust st Tl'ftote rorii mfir It Listening In JS? Ii PHILADELPHIA'S FIRST pM. 1 RADIO SHOW 11 LAST POPULAR PRICE MATS. )VEDNESDAY SATURDAY POSITIVELY LAST 8 CHANCES TO ENJOY Limited Engagement Come Early We Start at 6:30 Brine a Crouch He'll Cure It! THT'C A TiT" Take a Deep Breath You'll Need It! 1 1 KlU 1 Ctze I ever METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSK 2 WEEKSiHT0 0CT.16 Plrat Pbltsilplcbla rrMHitiHmi of tlw Gay Old Musical F1t THE BEGGAR'S OPERA by the Company That Placed lor 5 Ti at Ha rr.m.rrm"h, Londfrn BEATS Offlot ON SALE and Gimbat Br.

Pr'ilr Ma. Wd. ajid 85-- and Bftc EVENINGS, Mr TO 2.J OOTSZ A riHLA DELPIIIA INSTITUTION' til LU LU TEMPLE Broad and Sprin-j: Garden fitree-t Entire Week, Oct. 2 to Oct 7 Inc. THE FITtFT PCELIO OPPORTTVITT OF RRSirr TrTB HOST SENSATIONAL INVENTIONS Or THE CEfVTT -t'f QMS lltvTIT ST1TFI FLO VI Will rFI F.T NEW NOVELTIES BROADCASTING 6th Sit, Mt.

I')t. GlORGl KrUF.fAN and MAPC CONNELLV RADIO enre-fam-us Barbara Tennant. But. i where could she be found: Sh had: bern fccri pictures for years. The hunt wgs.

continued until Miss nax.t wss (x. cox-erd in retirement. She VAUDEVILLE THAT LEADS THE WORLD! Theatra. Ivttt a Shirt BIJOU Thin Wk A i WiM1r A NEWEST DEVICES IN A TIME-TABLE OF STARS! THtahl ifirht is ikssa Aoki kBBS- and a rdii i iant WITH mm Mirth. Color.

Baaury and Muaio Doors Open Monday, Oct. 2, at Noon te P. M. all week, closin-j en Oct. 7 indueire OS.CHXSTSA hmt WWSi IMilrl i COMPANY COMEDIANS AESOP'S FABLE3 and TOPICS OF IH2 DAY "GROWN-UP t.u l27 was persuaded to take, the part.

So entered upon her ork with all the en-thisiarm of old. The result, it i said, is a materniece of chn pacterizatin. Miss Tennant declares her-return to the screen has ben a real joy. George- C. Tyler and H.

H. Frze) MAC SOVEREIGN a euhofean novelty ADMISSION AFTERNOONS, 25e Inc. EVENINGS. 50e Tax :10 2:15 2 27 2:37 2:47 RUSSELL DEV1TT -ACSOrCEDIANS Seats Thnrsday Limited Engagement Beginning MONDAY, OCT. 9.

ritAKLKS 11 OILMAN PRESENTS K. S. BIRD CO, Manaren BABIES" WITH SCOTTIE FRIEDEL A :47 I BOVKSK BI.I0. "ARE YOU MARRIED?" A NEW II.VE-.UT EANE GEORGE BROADHURST Twice Daily, 2.15 ft a rv I Tl IV 1" Lloyd Ilandlton's mother, M. E.

Hamilton, is visiting her famous comedian son in Los Angeles for a few months. Heretofore "it has been Hamilton's custom to go to Oakland to visit mother between pictures. Mrs. Hamilton arrived in Los in time to help Lloyd celebrate bis birthday. He is years old.

3:07 ALSO 20-Yonny Shapely Cirlt 29 Wadneaday BOXING Friday Thuradpy ''IT'S UP TO YOU" l'ltlUOKLI'lIIA KAVOK1TE AMERICAN TKNOK VAUGHN COMFORT WITH JIMMIE JONES AT THE PIANO "THE CZARINA" ia Da. :07 i a roMr.m IN a ACTS BY MKU'IIIOP. lkngiel ani l.vjos bira "Mis Xrane is stiflerb in most errrgpoi'aly rntrtaiTiirg comfdy." N-w York Toted te Prefer PratcntatioB ef Bar. tMMlTVKI.K PAXCINt; FAMILY T1H FOR BENEFITS AT THE BP CAD, FOPREGT ANX GARRICK THEATRES, APPLY TO THE GENERAL OFl iCE. BROAD ST.

THEATRE leaqae. DANCIKG 329 :20 KITTY DONER WITH SISTER ROSE BROTHER TED DONER iv or st efs" AMUSEMENTS "PROF. DICK'S 4 T'AIJ li. ACADEMY OF MUSIC IVilo OCTOBER 6, MR. MAX EAEINOFF FRESEiTTS THE MFT.OPIPT" TUK SC INTILI-ATTNG I j-I m---- a.

715 N. BROAD ST. POPLAU 3029 All atylea taufbt. I'riTare Isyonft rrr afternonn and erg. Mmi.

ri', Call. REf'EPTfON THI3 PAT. NTGHT ACADEMY EXTENSIVELY IMPROVED BEGINNERS CLASS THIS WEEK Obildrn'a Class Sat. Afternoon Hall ran rnted. thea te.

:4 39 T1 wm Yin ok villi am i Chorus National UK ramian MISS PATRICOLA I.v A A OCAIj AND iySTKCMEXTAL REPERTOIRE THE "HI MOT? 1ST JOE COOK THE O.N" MAX A TiF.V ILLE SHOW minimi 3:83 THE HUMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TR0CADER0 10TK gr AH CIT MAT. PAtLT 2.15 The Best Yetl 1 SPEEDWAY fjgM iGIRLSlpa Ct nrf O-oru the Bi Ftrorit S. A -yi i. i LITTLE JACKIE FIELDS T-iia. ma i 'T aiTiiriri'yrT''tiirwlrtiiriTrn-frTi' The C.

Ellwood Carpenter Studio 1123 CTHE3TNUT STB EFT THE SCHOOL OF SUPERIORITY Wa apjiaUa in tearbinr affntlemen leiA to foUoTH'. correcting all fanha. thns n-ablintr rinpila to acacira ferfurt irii and aa of mannar a indU-ORnsabla to a aood dajioar Private loaaona day aud evenis. Claaaaa eraanizirwr. IN CON'TNCTT WITH MTV A soprano of the tkt-h IN I IN A hUOnClL IMPERIAL OPERA.

MOSCOW ATIH MADAM 10:15 THE ALEXANDERS JOHN SMITH rtftRSKNT VTrtIXO'nLT IS VATUt "SEWS TOM SENNA and RAY READ 4:15 10:40 10 h( And attny OtJtar rayorlta Under the Leadership of ALEXANDER KOSHETZ FAMOUS RUSSIAN CCNDTJCTOR AN0 COMPOSER TICKETS. 7Sp. (Vi, $1.50. S2.PO. R2.50 SEATS SOT ON r-ALF AT ACADEMY AN HTFFE S.

1U9 CHESTWTTT 8T, KXJT MIKCH AUdltJori to 2 f- -s P. McCrea Academy, Darby I'AUBT CABS TO THE IOOK Beauty Contest Tiles. Night anjMr Tutdar. Faturdar; Clasa TTmndar. rri.

t'- t.o en Sate On" WaoI? Tbv.p Fiihert SMART AND ATTRACTIVE YOUNG CHORUS Ttx in-'.

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