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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 13, 1927 TH 3 Yaudeville a Boon for the Film Star He Aims to Make His Character Life Like Revue Star Began Here at $15 Weekly Salary Picking Right Players Is an Art in Itself "SECOND THOUGHTS ON FIRST NIGHTS" Vaude i 11 Tom How- 1 teems to solver iieressfullr the By ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT tears and handkerchiefs are much in Auditorium at Broad and Pine streets, evidence. nilSjP for year's production Third Annual Judicial Travesty Un Rehearsals are now under way for nnd bc'n third edition of "Yes, Judge!" the this year Mask and annual judicial travesty of the Huh- Samue and Michael berger Law Club of the Y. M. and V.

"re TTHv" Tu all-star cast of performers under V. H. A. Ibis hilarious musical treat ot Morris will will be presented nn Sunday evening, entertain the huge crowd which is ei- Mnrcn Si. the Simon Kleisher peeled.

AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS 1. i si pertinent prob- leni of personal r- a i aru, star comedian of "The Greenwich -lage Follies," which is now playing at the Chestnut Street Ipera House, owes a large part of his success to the World War. to the time of the "Sum Weller has, ariseu to increase the mirth of the Anglo Saxon race." Horace Gree ley's celebrated admonition of "Go West Young Man," has a clost rival in this Iron mot nlrout Sain Weller be delivered at the great Dickens' dinner, tendei Lee aud J. J. Sliubert seem to have the happy faculty of picking the right people for the right jobs when producing I heir pluvs.

Take tor instance iu "Mv Maryland." now running nt the l.vric Theatre, thev have Nate agner, who Just this present, season appearnupes for motion picture stars. Such occasions, too frequently inane and disapiKint-ing when a jew-1 bedecked fa Torite is led tlie footlights to whisper a few inconsequenti a I Mmarlu 1 1 ")lfr PHILADELPHIA'S LEADING THEATRES DIRECTION OF LEE SHITERT 1 -i 1 LAST WEEK STnTSSSS war, he pimus, 1 was usimr a Geninin eil to Churles CH. public." are now dialect in mv aiwJflADELPM Mat. tSST(t I Thurs.ASat. played litthi WffWtV HUH I I i I nc7 fw? rJA Delmonicos.

CWHLE5 MnRUGhTQN the end of the first American visit when "Pickwick Papers" were so popular in this country. 'That's precisely what 1 aim to do," echoes Charles McXiuighton, who plays the part of the genial Sam in the Cosmo Hamilton-Frank C. Ueilly dramatization, "Pickwick," now running at the Walnut Street Theatre. In the cheerful and lively manner with which Dickens endowed this happy and humble manservant, McNaughton cuts a tender and hilarious figure whenever he enters the scene. is an Fiiglisbuuin, with American theatrical experience, and is a brother of the members of the famous cockney McNaughton vaudeville team that endeared itself to nation-wide audiences.

Ten years ago. he came to this country, nnd hai appeared in su-h successes as "Spring Maid." "A Doll Girl." "Pom Pom." Nobody Home." "lluimtifiil l'n-kuown," "My Lady's Glove, "The liet-ter '(He." "The Live Gliosis," "Plain "The Might Age to Marry" and )ld Bill, M.P." deftly avoided wflfVOf HRWLEi by steppmn into vaudeville in some well-tailored vehicle which permits the movie star not only to be seen in the flesh, but to appear In actinu, with the advantage of carefully considered material, well prevented. A brief survey of this season's vaude-tille firmament shows that motion picture stars are more than ordinarily numerous. Ton or a dozen of them lire now touring the Keith-Albee circuit. Theodore liolierts, Hert Ljrte.ll, Jean Acker and Nntacha Kainhova, the first and second Mrs.

Valentines; llevcrly Ifiiyne, Hetty Wythe. Mabel Normaiid, Wallace Iteery, liill Prsnmwl are now stars of the two-a-day and the most recent addition to the list is blonde and pretty Wanda Hawley, who makes her initial bow at B. F. Keith's Theatre this week, representing the motion picture field in the celebration of "Vaude-Tille's Anniversary." Miss Hawley will appear in a delightful comedy bit, culled "Squaring the Circle," being supported by her good-looking young husband, J. Stuart Wilkinson.

Miss Hawley confesses that she has always wanted to appear before an audience and footlights aiid that she's having a perfectly glorious time. Her appearance in such well remembered pictures as "Affairs of Anatole." "Nobody's Money." "The Lottery," "Gnut-gtark," "Combat" and more recently, "Stop Flirting." has made her popular and important figure on the screen. There is nothing of the spoiled blase screen sophisticate about Miss Hawley. She is a refreshingly natural and unaffected person, very much interested in things and people and life in general. She looks absurdly young and child-like these days, very slim, her erstwhile rampant curls now slicked down into a bang and Dutch cut effect which is most becoming.

AM) A XOTAItl.K. CAST effort to be fun- TOM HOWfiRD ny, for although I was born in Ireland. I have never been able to use the Irish dialect successfully, since I overcame my natural brogue. With the advent of the war, however, the use of German dialect, if not altogether treasonable, became highly unpatriotic and had to tie abandoned. "As a substitute I ndopleil a 'Booh' type.

It is the same dumb, doleful, dyspeptic character 1 am now presenting in 'The Greenwich Village He is not nn impersonation of some one whom I knew; he is a creation. But he is created out of acknowledge of nullum nature, lie never laughs nor smiles himself. He has grouch against nil the world. His fam-ijiur way of expressing dial grouch, however, makes every Isuly else laugh or smile. And that explains his success.

Tom Howard's stage career started as a motiologist nt the Dreamland Theatre, Philadelphia. The I ircanilaud was in effect a picture house, but occasionally the niiilience revolted and demanded a few spoken words of hilarity. Mr. Howard assured (he management that he was unlikely (o cause mi sporadic rioting, und wns engaged on the spot. His salary for (he single week was the equivalent of (bice hundred admissions, which was no mean concession.

After this experience, Mr. Howard went (o Baltimore, where he signed up with a "tub" show bent on filibustering expedition through (he. Soulh. The show wns the "London Gnvely Girls," the time wns 1015, Mr. Howard was the comedian, nnd the route included Yoakum, Texus, and Mtirfrncsboro, Tennessee.

His career Ihen and thereafter whs a succession of burlesque shows. He was funny in "The Kcwpie Dolls," ami he was funny in "Knick-Kua' ks." He was funny nt the sniiie time that Bobby Chirk and Jim Burton were being funny, and in (he same draughty theatres. The Moses to lead him out of the wilderness through which he bad been hewing a path for ten years was A. L. Jones, one of the young men who annually present "The Greenwich Village Follies." part in "Countess Maritza" at the Sliubert Theatre.

Realizing his talent, J. J. Sliubert immediately made him Waller Woolf's understudy and when that well-known baritone was suddenly stricken ill. Nate Wagner jumped in on moment's notice and played the part well enough to warrant bis selection fur the role of Captain Trumbull in Man laud." Another instance is that of Warren Hull, who is playing his first real part in "My Maryland" (hat of Jack Negly. Hull was, according to his family, destined for a business career and with this end in view they sent him from a Western New York town to New York City, where he entered the New York I nivcrstly to Iteooiue big financier.

But fate changed his plans in a very peculiar way. One night, when he was quite homesick and lonely some of the boys rushed into his room and dragged him off to an informal parly, lie remonstrated nt lirsl, but filially grubbed bis hat and coat and niuroliei! olf wilh the crowd. Since be bud always been inleresled in music and curried his ukelcle to the various parties be had intended, it was only natural that he should be asked to sing. A singing teacher, who happened to be present, prevailed upon Hull to take vocal lessons anil (his led to his entrance into the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Fate is sometimes very kind anil in the case of Warren Hull it brought ,1.

Sliubert to the Eastman School one evening when they were presenting "La Tosca." Mr. SbuberC hud secured many nieuiheys of "The Student Prince," "The Love Song," "Princess Flavin" and other musical plays from (his school and when he heard Warren Hull's voice he immediately placed him under contract. For slage experience and to learn Ihe art of make-up he assigned Hull to a small part in "The Student Prince" company, but in reality he had engaged him i'or bis present role of Jack Negly in "My Maryland." lie Is superbly suited to the purl; In fact so much so (bat in the third act when he returns home, crazed from war and begs Barbara to inarrv liiiu. eves 15 MATS WEO fk. SAT Has Earned Reputation Both Here and Aboard liSTIRRIN6 THRILLING-1 that the Monte Carlo suicide rate was, if anything, slightly less than Philadelphia's, the hotels would suffer terribly.

And I am afraid the Riviera would lose a lot of ils charm for the roninnticnl htdy from Hnmnnsville. Thus, circling over "TImmi Desperate Pilot'' with something of the brooding indecision of a buzzard, I am trying to suggest that this play, for all the crystalline fineness of some of its text and for all the tingling dramatic force of some of its expertly fashioned scenes, has a kind of Second Empire spurious-ness, a faint musty smell of old yellowback romances, a dacided throw-back to novels rend with infinite relish in the attic at Ilumansville. I am trying here to picture Akins as the kind of playwright who, if she felt a play alxmt suicide stealing over her, would have to call it "Thou Desperate Pilot" (even at the considerable inconvenience of having to hand out diagrams to the audience explaining just what she meant by that. Then she would not consider self -slaughter really tasty unless it waif effected to orchestral music from the storied cliff nt Monte Curio and finally she herself could not wring her last drop of satisfaction from that leap into the merciful sea unless it were done for love and someone named Lord Eric Hamilton. Audience Relished the Play In the hasty review of the premiere dashed off for my journal next morning.

1 went, so fur as to deserilic Miss Akins as an odd mixture of dramatic poet and roiunnticnl nursemaid. "But why nursemaid?" I have since been asked, in accents tinged sometimes with itlle curiosity, sometimes with a faint asperity. 1 suppose I was thinking of Irene. Ihe gallant Cockney child who steered the pram of Dnvid A. through the mysteries of Kensington Gardens and who, sitting on the park bench, dreamed such grand dreams of being invited to the ball at Buckingham Palace that she was ns one transformed and radiant and the passing Barrie lifted his hat.

It is good, then, to lie able to report that the first night Audience relished "Thou Desperate Pilot." It was an interesting audience that ranged all the way from Fannie Hurst (who attended with the fashion edilress of Liberty) to Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who witnessed the performance from Miss Akins' own box and was still there to enjoy the spectacle when the hitler responded (in ermine and black velvet) to the cries of "Author! Author!" Heavy-footed Farce Shown At (bat, I enjoyed (he very old-fash-Icnedness of "Thou Desperate Pilot" nnd the old-style projectile (muses of its performance better than I did the exhaustingly effortful new fimgledness of the piece called "Loud Speaker" which was staged a few nighls earlier lit the Fifty-second Street Theatre, now being managed by five of our more rebellious. young dramatists whom some local wag has been enigmatical enough to refer to as "the revolting playwrights." "Loud Speaker" was a rowdy, rambunctious, rather heavy-footed farce, staged with scenery so scrupulously eccentric that nothing so humdrum as wall or a ceiling wns tolerated for a moment. Then the players made their entrances and exits by sliding on chutes. One vaguely felt (his (o be somehow a fine symld of revolt, but for in) own part I find that such didoes of staging, instead of making amends for an otherwise uneventful play, serve only to call attention to the poverty of its thought and its humor, if any.

-tax, MUSICAL HIT Henry Sleph enson, plays the Emperor in '1 he Crown Prince." the play of romance nnd intrigue now nt the Adelplii Theatre, is an English actor. who has a rec- a ord of achieve- fr inent on inj i. NEW YORK, March 12. Once upon a time I numbered among my more cherished acquaintances a romanticiil mulatto girl. Her name was Pearl and her years were thirteen.

She was baud-maiden in a scrofulous, ramshackle house on the outskirts of Kansas City nnd it was a source of endless astonishment to her that after dinner the somewhat threadbare gentry whom it was her life work to serve would just sit around reading or talking or (in moods of exceptional dissipation) playing duplicate whist. Though equipped with the enviable leisure and the assorted finery for indulging in private theatricals, thev just sat around and talked. The sight of them thus dully wasting the romantic night was too much for this small critic peering at them darkly through the crack in the pantry door. Finally one evening she gave her towel a flirt of disavowal and cried out: "Why don't you all drayse uhpV" 1 think of her fondly every time I go to a new play by Zoe Akins. And on such occasions I am always reminded that this anachronistic lady bails from Ilumansville.

Mo. I am even driven by some inner compulsion to mention that biographical detail. Such mention is not made in the jesting vein of one who thinks it excruciatingly funny for any one to have come from a small, oddly named town. One who knows of old what it is to have people go into convulsions of merriment on first hearing that he was born in Phalanz, N. would never think of laughing hysterically because someone else was merely born in Ilumansville, Mo.

But such a hothouse flower of the Akins fancy as "Thou Desperate Pilot," which was proffered to us on Monday night at the Morosco, does seem to me most interesting nnd best understood when it is recognized us a wistful' Bight from a small Missouri town. Maxwell Anderson, if be wishes, may write a piny like "Saturday's Children" to search the troubled hearts of two shabby youngsters trying to get along on $111 a week. This fairy tale of a latter-day Anderson is a sad little tragicomedy of subway jams and overdue rent and bills nnd dishes to wash. Our Eugene O'Neills may sniff desire under the elms of a menu New England farm. They may, if they like that sort of thing, look for heartaches and despairs in riverfront saloons and in grimy holds of ships.

But not Miss Akins. I don't suppose it was she who wrote the playlet culled "Black Velvet nnd Diamonds" with which the majestical Valcska Surrnt once toured the two-u-day, but at the least she would know just how its author felt. She wants her woe doggy. There is left over in her from some previous incarnation the vestigial notion that tragedy must deal with the sorrows of princes: must tell sad tales of the death of kings. She peers through the stage door at all the actors trying to suffer in store clothes and gingham and calls out to them: "Why don't you all drayse uhpV" So when the fit is on her.

it's up and away from these drub scenes. For her rather the folly nnd the rue of some one named (to her almost visible delight) Lord Eric Hamilton Lord Eric astray amid the desperate gnyeties and the heartbreaks of the Riviera. The scene, at all costs, must be a Casino even at the considerable inconvenience to herself of having to stage the most intimate episode of romance, domestic strife, seduction and suicide right out in the public ante-room to the baccarat tables. The Mediterranean must stretch away in sapphire loveliness to the distant sky and when the chill dawn light touches the huddle of last night's confetti nnd the lees in the wine glasses left, on the parapet, it must he a woman in all (be frippery of a silken ball gown who leaps to her death from the cliff of that unvarying shore. Cheerful View of Things I suppose that for the tourists all agog at Monte Carlo there is no element in its scene so enhancing as the carefully fostered tradition of Suicide.

The really somewhat tedious spectacle of a lot of silent people herded about a roulette table would lose half its zest if it were not understood that, before dawn, one of them (said by those in the know, my dears, (n be the nntural sou of old St, Basil Trefusis) would turn suddenly on bis heels, walk in tight-lipped silence from the room and he seen no more until days later when ihe fishermen down Beaulieu way would pull in his body with their nets his slim young body, with the old charming smile somehow still hovering ghostlike around that proud, proud mouth. I suppose that if it ever got noised about the American Express Company stage of both Can Take Prima Donna Role on Short Notice 1 aM COMPANVX rUSlCAl To Marion TV jr trrt HftC SUCCESS Alia, a I'll i In delphia girl, SMi born and educated in this AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS city. has all Nwr chorus tf yy VECORP w- 60 vvr ririuiiiiin nnnio rnrr'f orrT cmnr VWU. been entrusted the honor of under PHILADELPHIA'S FOREMOST THEATRES (I studying the prima doniiii CHESTNUT AND JUNIPER GARRICK LAST WEEK MATINEES WEDNESDAY role oFtjiiIv Kntherine rj 11 I ii --kWPfmjL and this conn 1 s't'V 1 firstTppea" MM STEPHENSO, nnces were made in the company of Mr. and Mrs.

Kendal. He parted with them to join Charles Hinvtrey's company in London, and in 1IKI1 paid his first visit to the I'nited States as a member of Hawtrev's "A Message From Mars" Company. In all. Stephenson remained eight years with Haw-trey, appearing with him both in Loudon and America in various plays. After" a few months with Weedon Grossmith at home the actor allied himself with Frank Curzon, who was then producing It.

J. Carton's plays. In one of that author's works, "Mr, Hopkinson," Stephenson returned to the I'nited States aud remained here two years. I'pon his return to En-ghiud he was again associated with Hawtrey. Siuce he has played only upon the American stage.

Two seasons have been spent as leading man for Mrs. Fiske; another with Nazi-mova, a year under the Frohman management, another nt the Comedy Theatre, New York as leading man in "Kitty McKay." Brief intervals of his time have been devoted to "Inside the Lines," and "Justice." and then with June Cowl in both "Smilin' Through" nnd "Lilac Time," followed by "Spanish Love" and "Enter Madame." Most Spectacular and Most Sensational Success Ever Produced by Charles Dillingham micelles i "The Vagabond King," now being Last Week Announcing potitlvely th final eight pr(oritiBnci in Philadelphia of the most thrilling operetta ever produced in America played by Miss Carolyn Thoni- I DO A fa If Miss a Km mm 10k Ul lues I By Otto Herbert, Bert Kilmer, Harry Ruby and Jerome Kern In New Muiical Comedy "LUCICY" Hls4 oa Mc Carttius I WERE KING he Original Aeui Vfo Company of 125 ami direct from. 65 Weeks ii iM Casin.o'Jheairt Life of Beethoven Filmed The first showing of a moving picture film entitled "Beethoven" nnd based ii poii incidents in the life of (hat great composer, will he shown in Eygptian Hull of the John AVanamnker store in Philadelphia, on Saturday afternoon at three o'clock, March anil through South America to See United Slates Revues out the week of the twenty-first, con- With the Featured Arliete: WALTER RICHARD (Skcets) JOSEPH IVY CATLETT GALLAGHER SANTLEY SAWYER RUBY KEELER-KELLER SISTERS AND LYNCH ALBERTINA RASCH GIRLS PRINCESS WHITE DEER PAUL WHITEN UNIT STAGED BY HASSARD SHORT DANCES AND ENSEMBLES STAGED BY DAVID BENNETT Raich Billet Dancee by ALBERTINA BASCH Bettintrx by JAMES REYNOLDS Popular Price Matlneet Wednesday and Saturday. Gala Farewell Performance Saturday Evening, March 19. Srata now lor all remaining Performances.

Shubert Alia, who at- 1HRON fflTJ tended the Friends' School here, went to 'New York immediately following her graduation, and studied under Henry Hoyt, Frank La Forge ami the late David Bispham. Her first appearance on the stage was in the original production of "Kose Marie," in which she was given a small part and assigned as understudy to Mary Kllis. then a prima donna, who, incidentally, is now appearing in Philadelphia in The Crown Prince." When Ellis gave up the operatic stage to appear in dramatic roles, Miss Alta succeeded her in the title role of "Hose Marie," remaining with the New York company during its long tenancy of the Imperial Theatre and on tour. Miss Attn has appeared in concert in New York, and has also been employed as a model by several prominent artists, whose paintings adorn the front covers of the more exclusive magazines. In addition to possessing a lyric soprano voice of great clarity and range, the Philadelphia singer is a girl of unusually attractive beauty.

"I never have appeared in the prima donna role in 'The Vagabond says Miss Alta. "principally because Thomson does not wish to break ler rather remarkable record of not having missed a single performance since the original production on September 21, Hut she has promised me an opportunity to sing the role during the final weeks of the current season, when she probably will be forced to take a much-needed Another invasion of South America impends. Uncle Siini now dominates the countries south of l'mi a with his mov Iff Cv 5 eluding with Mured 2i, the day which marks (he actual centenary of the passing of the great composer. -The picture wns made in Vienna, I Bonn, Molding. Baden and Nussdorf, where the great master lived and in (he actual houses which he occupied, wherever these arc still in existence.

The Vienna Museum eo-operntcd in the making of the picture by the loan of the Beethoven relics, so (hat the piano which is shown in the film nnd many other articles were the uctual property of Beethoveu, or were used by him. A special orchestra will piny the incidental music for the picture, which, of course, is all by Beethoven and especially ar- ranged for this film in Vienna. ies, agricultur- iVsf railroad equipment, automobiles and other exports. Now the shrewd Yankee patron saint promises to strengthen the tie that binds the Unit TWO WEEKS ONLY BEGINNING MARCH 21st SEAT SALE THURSDAY By Arrantement wilh DAVID BELASCO WILLAUD mkCW In Hla Own Big, Colorful fMoy of To-day "HONOR BE DAMNED" Orifina! Company fiom the MOROSCO Theatre. N.

Y. AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS CHRMRN OEOLORfl ed States to iMW I) iV 8IUV ft VAM CARLOS I I 1 MILLER.fr LYLES CHARLOTTE WOOORUff i Ia4 OOftOTHY M'NULTV DEUELSI5TERS I I '01' Rutk Miyorv, i i I f. I 6rtlttt Simmons Sittert rcll CHESTNUT STHfcfcT bfcLOW TWfcLhTH BROAD EE 2nd Sd MATINEES WED. SAT. s2- Seati for 3rd Week on Sale Thursday Mail Orders Filled Now Philadelphia Falls in Line in Proclaiming Him AMERICA'S FOREMOST YOUNG ACTOR ANNIVERSARY 927 CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF VAfUETY A Stupendous Aggregation of Super-Start and Special Features pi Anrunr rtnr mistress of CEREMONIES iurtc.it vc mvuni.

$1.50 mC UII-UCTlrWlJ BEST SEATS Nifht 8:10 OVERTURE Mat. 2:22 2:29 AESOP'S FABLES AMDTOPI08pF THEDAT THE THRILLERS 'Txcitrnp Moments' Latin America by the introduction of that form of entertainment coming nn-1 der the head of revue. The Sliuberts see in the lands from Colombia to the Argentine a fertile' lield for the merchandising of their fleshy harlequins. Early in they i will send a troupe South. They are i to be associated in the enterprise with Louis Ololora, the leading showman of i Caracas, Venezuela, and Mine.

Otolora. for years a dancer of South American capitals. Senorita Carmen Otolora is now touring with "Great Temptations," which opens nt the Sliubert on Mon- day, March lil. She is traveling with the big extravaganza in order to learn the inner workings of American musi- oil shows. She previously conducted i a similar survey ns member of the chorus in "Guy Pnree." According to Carmen, her father i gathered the idea from a conversation with nn American oil man at Mara- caibo.

The Yankee stressed the liber-! ality with which the American public i looks upon feminine loveliness unen- cumbered by too weighty Senor Otolora immediately coiumuni-! euted with the Sliuberts. When she has mastered the technique of American extravaganza she will be the right bower of her parents iu actual operation of the venture. All of the blonde models in "Great Temptations" the Latins particularly favor ladies with pale hair have been engaged for the trip, which will open at Caracas nnd close at Bogota eighteen months later, after circling the entire continent. 1 LIEUT. GITZ RICE Sinriac Ril Own Sons THE CANADIAN SOLDIER COMPOSER flktfrrmwM best 'seats $2MM LATEST, GREATEST OF ALL THE "FOLLIES" lfie Bohemians Imc I Announce ALL-NEW SEVENTH ANNUAL i ENGLAND 8 PREMIER VEKTRttOfttTIBT CORA ft! JERRY IM A TShnn.oarjIAL SCENE, "WHITEHALL," LONDOM 2:41 A MEMORY OF BUTT YEARS AOO 3:01 FOX WARD U6S--Thc rord Min8tTwl and Vmdgvillft Tna.m SPEC1AL FILM ITATOBE "100 YEARS OF VARIETY" TOLD IU MOTION PICTURES STAGE AND SCREEN STAR IN PERSON Aaitatad or J.

TIIB COMKDlf DRAMA SENSATION WANDA HAWLEY i30 Stuart Wilklum In 1'8UARLN0 THE Al Boaber FIRST APPEARANCE ON ANT AMERICAN STAGE Direct From Its Year in New York And Chicago Run Staged by ALBERT LEWIS Evenings $1.00 to $3.00, Plus Tax SCOTLAND 8 3:43 ft 9:43 WILL FYFFE CHARACTER COMEDIAN Hilarious Fun. Maic Matchless Dancing THE STAR-STUDDED COMPANY OF 90 FOR BENEFITS AT THE IIKOMI AMI TIIKATKKS. APPLY AT THB OI.NEKAL iil FICL, NTAM.EV OF AULKH IIMO BACK Police Raid Drove Ruby Into Musical Comedy If Texas Guinau's famous New i'ovk night club had hot been closed by the police recently, Philadelphia would never have seen Ruby Keeler in the Dillingham production of "Lucky," starring Mary Eaton at the Garrick Theatre. "Give this little girl a great big hand." That was the line Texas hurled at her patrons for nenrly two years when she introduced her star performer, Miss Keeler, in her celebrated dance club. And every "butter and egg" man of the Universe applauded Miss Keeler as she did her marvelous dancing and singing speciality in the famous night club.

But Came, the dawn, as the movies say and also came the curfew and the police who closed up the night clubs. What was a clever little girl like Ruby Keeler to do? New to the stage, unknown to managers, the pet only of the butter and egg men from out of town, she was in despair. A vaudeville agent suggested the slage. But Kuby had never been on the stage. A demure little girl from Halifax.

Canada, chaperoned by a doling mother, she was all alone on the si reels of New York, when the cruel policemen closed up the night club. However, Kuby told the vaudeville agent to do his worst. If he could get. her a job on the regular atage, she would do her best. And so Kuby Keeler was sold down the river to Dillingham.

Well, folks, it may seem strange, but Ruby Keeler has made the hit of her young life in "Lucky," playing opposite no less a celebrity than Walter Cntlett, and the way she shakes a mean hoof is a thriller. She also sings anil she also acts unci how. Well, Kuby Keeler has had her chance and she has made good, and Dillingham has signed her up for live years, and if she doesn't meet one of the original butter and egg men who hailed her so heartily in the night club, and get married, she is going to be a great big star. So give this little girl a great big hand. Popular Player Returns One of the most popular leading men in stock.

John A. I.orenz. will return this week to Philadelphia, to resume activities on the stage. His return will be welcomed by a host of admirers who remember him as leading man in the days of the American Stock Company flu fiirflrd nvenue. stirl.

later, at the Knickerbocker Slock in West Philadelphia. Lorenz will be seen in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" at the William Penn. lie is of fine figure and is good-looking with a face deuoting strength i character. AMUSEMENTS tint Vaudeville Appearance in Yir Th Eminent Comedr Btu FLORENCE MOORE In a SONO GROUP by Nmille FIimik LIEUT.

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