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The Cream Sheet Life's Finer Side. Part III: 40 Pases i UTEBATTRF 80CICTT. VOL. XL. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13.

1921. THE HOME For Pwwiti sad CTiIMm, lor Taacaere and I'upit. NAME SHOULD BE LIGHTNING. CHARLIE AGAIN IS CHAMPION. That's the Kind of Striking Girl Winnie Is.

Chaplin Knocks Gothamites Out tvith "The KiL" Paris Office 7 Rue Bcrgcr New York Office 48 IV. 35th St. How She Wears Her Hair Off Stage and Other Things. Clean Taste is Evidenced in East's Show Success. 1 Music and Soil TUB STAGS AND THE DRAMA.

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Chailet Chaplin la still champion of the world. Ills new comedy, "The Kid," has hit New York a solar plexus. The Strand Theater on Broadway, which houses it, is a perpetual The colored gent In livery who S'V-- Ji i I1. It X7 n3. )XX; X-v.

iV "IX X'AV 1 THE SWEET1IEART SHOP. fess 1 A Bright New Musical Comedy Coming BY EDWIIf SCHAIIEHT. Winnie LIghtner moistened her Angers with her tongue, smoothing her hair down over her ears, while he delivered a scathing rebuke about the petty jealousies among professional folk on the stage. "I never was that way myself when I wasn't a headllner," she said in conclusion, "but now I'm In a headline spot, I'm going to stay there Just for meanness." It wasn't anything special that had happened to bring on MIbs Light-ner's burst of disapproval as we sat in her dressing-room at the Or-pheum. She's Just begun to think about things In general as a result of a disagreement she's just had, and was.

registering a small and genial kick against the world It showed her In a new light. And, I must confess, a very seductive one. Because there are few people who can deliver choice remarks of dissatisfaction and do It gracefully. But Winnie Lightner Is one of them. Because she has a temperament like a saxophone, and everything- she says is funny.

You may guess rrom the fact tnat said she had hor hair pulled down over her ears that she wasn't getting ready to go on the stage. No, that skintight hair dress like most skintights la just for the footlights. The rest of the time Winnie looks aulte normal. And she about three times as good-looking as you'd suppose seeing her in vaudeville. Th other day at the Athletic Club they dressed her up in a bathing suit, and well, they had to get Bull Montana and Miller, the wrestlers, to keen the men back from the doors to the swimming pool.

That was a frolicky morning for Winnie, anyway. She was full of pep, of course but, tnen more so than usual, and just to show that she's liberal with her Jazz she made a merry-go-round of the circular doors, and kept three or four chorus girls on the Jump for about fifteen minutes. She has her dressing-room full of tiny ivory animals, and other dew-dads, and she's always playing around with them and doing Juggling stunts, just to keep busy. I hate to think of her waiting around between scenes in the films. NIX ON SLAPSTICK.

For the present she isn't going In the pictures, either. But she confided that the day will probably arrive when a certain starring contract will be financed for her. "I don't go In for the slapstick, though. No pies in my face. I'd rather stay on the stage.

"Somebody asked me the other day why I didn't star in vaudeville do a single. But I don't think I'd like It. I'd be too lonesome out on the stage. I've got to have somebody to punch when I get excited." For this reason Newton Alexander and Winnie's sister, Theo, who is Mrs. Alexander, will probably continue together.

What's more, they may stage a three-act music rcvuo or comedy, instead of staying in the two-a-day. Mi.13 Lightner doesn't claim a thing but luck for her success in vaudeville. But everybody who sees her knows that her talent for acting natural and acting funny naturally is what counts in her act. That's the hardest, kind of acting, anyway. Winnie waa born right in the theater district in New York.

The back yard of her houne backed up against the rear of a vaudeville theater. "1 sneaked into the show game through the back door," said Winnie. "I uks'I to like to do stunts on ths stage wiien the house was umpty. "I'hwre was a pinny yes, a wop, if you prefer who tliaind up, and in day I gnt a ciont with a duM- liu mop, ntimstt Ilia Btlck, tldo ut tbo t-v, 1U r. Urn dwura lFrfessS WX; meets the autos at the curb pleads pltnouHly with the throng that there' aren't any seats, hut it doesn't even check tho rush.

The management has put on two extra performances a day, one be- ginning at 10:30 o'clock in the, morning and the other, a midnight affair, beginning at 11 p.m. To my mind "The Kid" is by long odda the best motion-picture eom- edy ever made. It has more than humor; it has tenderness and literary charm. It Is In every way a work of art of the highest quality. Incidentally It is the first child picture I ever saw that did not give me an acute pain in the bowels.

Kven at that. I am not unduly excited about the new child genius that Chaplin has given to the world. Little Jack Coogan" is undoubtedly a wonderful child; but do not worry, brethren, he will never be so wonderful again. What we admire of little Jack on the screen is a solution consisting of about seven-eighths Chaplin. It is the subtle art and the fine brain of Charlie that has made the youthful Coogan.

When it comes to that, Chaplin need not lie awake at night shuddering for fear somebody else will make a picture like "The Kid" and steal his thunder. Jova was the only one who could thunder convincingly. There will never be another picture Uke "The Kid" until there lu another Charlie Chaplin, and it has taken the world, according to the latext dope of the geologists. 00,000,000 years to produce the first, A number of old maids of both sexes have gotten goose fienh and blushes, hot flushes and chillblains and other ccmplieations because there Is a lot about "dtdies" and other intimacies of baby life in "The Kid." But I yawn, brethren, I yawn! CLEAN SHOW'S WIN. is a lesson' for producers ia "The Kid." Looking at the high water marks of the New York season no one can help remarking that every one of the big knockout has a certain common quality that Is to say, a sweetness and simplicity and purity.

There isn't a home run hit in New York that isn't clean and decent. "Lightnin', which has played a thousand performances on Broadway and is going just as strong as It did the tlrst week and will probably last forever, is more than clean. It Is so redolent of purity and so fragrant with sweetness that it is a veriiabla soul fumlgator. You could almost feel friendly toward an income tax collector after seeing "LlghtnlnV "Irene," which stands next in point of long distance records, la a clean, jolly Itttle musical comedy, with an amiable story and soma agreeable music. "The Gold Dlgsrers" Is a story about chorus girl, but strange to aav.

is wholesome and clean. It leaves you with the pleasant conviction lht tha young ladies of the merry-merry may smoke cUarattet. bn that they are only making a bluff at beinar naughty for "purposes of revtmi." and are prt'ala)y all that a mini-ter'i ilnUk. aliould Ik. niiiy a (Cuntfaul tn Thif rg.l 1 OrpAeuTtx.

Model Ad vance "The Sweetheart Shop," the musical comedy which scored such a pronounced success In Now York, Boston and Chicago for the last ten months, comes to the Mason tomorrow night, with Harry K. Morton and the original cast and chorus of tiftv. The book and lyrics are by Anne who has written the Fred Stone shows for the hut five seasons. The muHio la by Hugo Felix, who composed tho melodies in "Madam Sherry" and 'Tom Pom." There is an entertaining story disclosed In "The Sweetheart Shop," an establishment for the furtherance of matrimonial bliss, a short of marriage mart where would-be husbands can meet a "guaranteed" mate. The humorous and novel situations are enlivened with a liberal allotment of hilarious, refreshing and alluring melodies.

In the company are Father Clay Hill, 'Zella 1'ussell, Roy Gordon, ranlel Healy, Marlon Suki, Mary Harper, Helen Ford and Teddy Hudson. There are three silken scenes, the locale of. which are The Sweetheart Shop, ail artist's studio in Greenwich Village and a Fifth-avenue auction I I I (J- 111 ULTRA AS I "A LE STYLE ORIGINATIONS THAT APPEAL TP WOMEN OF FINE TASTE. ANNOUNCING NEWLY-ARRIVED MODELS FOR STREET, AFTERNOON OR EVENING ASSUREDLY EARLY SELECT TIONAT THE UNIQUE GIVES YOU FIRST CHOICE OF THE SEASON'S BEST MODELS, SUITS 'CAPES FROCKS GOWNS AND SPORTS AP UNIQUE 4, vp Zesfxe, HOTEL DE BUNK AT BROADWAY PANTAGES A disappointed heiress, an octogenarian bell hop and labor trouble that culminate In a walkout of the employees of the Hotel do Bunk, are combined In 'N Everything," which will be Henry Sherr's comedy medium at the Broadway Pantages for the coming week. Frank Samuels will bo the senile servitor, Ih-nry Sherr the next of kin who inherits the famous old hotel, and "Jackie" Brunea, the niece who receives a mere trifle of $250,000 in lieu thereof.

Minor Beed has been busy painting marblo pillars 'ji everything for the hotel scenea, which are said to be "unparalleled magnificence." "Oklahoma Bob" Albright has ordered new rubder mats for all the brass lobby ornaments, and these latter have been newly gold plated. Over a million dollars (stage money) will bo expended in making the Hotel On Hunk the greati himk ever o(Tred to a confiding and trustful publto. I iav Butler's latest remedy. "Girls. Don't (iambi," is the fa-Jura film special lor tha wtk, 1 I had dirtied uo his 'perfectly clean, newly mopped stage, and I'd have to get out.

I told him I'd go, but some day he'd pay admission to see me on that stage. And he did, too. "My sister was on the stage before I was, and so was Newt Theo was in a Bister act with another girl, and Newt was in the Exposition Four. These acts split up, and Newt and Theo were married, and went on in their own turn. I wa excess baggage then, but Theo said: "A FOIL FOR THEO." 'Let's put Winnie In the act somewhere and make soma use of can she asked Newt.

'She can't do anything but be a mugger' make faces, he meant 'but then I guess she'll be a great foil for 1 "So one day they took me to the theater to try out. I was skinny as a lead pencil, but -I wanted to be grown up, so I wore a pair of big shoes and some spats around my pi pest em ankles, and put my hair up, and say, I must have been a fright. "I immediately forgot very line they had taught me, and I was shoved out on that stage, with a lot of strangers in front of me, and I just had to do something. "Did you ever get that feeling that the elevator had dropped out from under you, and left you hanging by your hopes, up in mid-atmosphere? It felt Just that way. But I did know that I had to do something, or I'd never have another Chance.

"So I started mugging, twisting up my face into awful shapes a thing I'd often been spanked for and talking nonsense In a high, squeeky voice. "It got a laugh, so I kept it op. "Theo and then Newt tried to get ma off. but I had already learned the sweet recompense of applause, and I stuck to the old ship till I well nigh wrecked It." Before I talked with Mies Light-ner I was nently Upped off to the fact that she nut married, Nor la she etig.Ll. "1 had a sweetheart once, but I room.

"DADDIES" ATTRACTING CROWDS AT MOROSCO. "Daddies" enters the fourth week with today's matinee at tho Mo-rosco. To date this popular comedy has been playing to absolute, capacity houses. Oliver Morosco certainly packed a play close to the hearts of local theatergoers when he decided upon "Daddies." In the play the author, John Hobble, has deftly arranged a series of side-splitting situations in whloh half a dozen bachelor dad-fileBtry to mother a number of freshly adopted war orphans. There are a number of tiny kids in the play, as well as the usual number of growh-up favorites.

Bertha Mann and Henry Duffey play the leading roles. Helene Sullivan and Gay ne Whitman are also cast in Ilnw parts. This quartet do exceptionally good team work In "Daddies." RET CRN'S TO NEW YORK. Elsie Ferguson has returned to Naw York afttr making her first photoplay in Los Angeles. Although he has been on the I'acinc Coat often with dramatic productions, she has heretofore always made her pictures In tho East.

The one exception which caused her to go Waat a the filming of Arnold Bennett play, "Haired and I'rofane Love," ahich had to ba dona In iha Lasky studli In California lcus new equipment was blug lnxtallcd lu Uu art mount atern aiitdWa. PAREL Poroffcy Aewis, HIPPODROME OFFERS GOODMAN PHOTOPLAY. Edith Hallor, in a film adaption of Jules Eckert Goodman's, "Just Outside the Door," will be the photoplay attraction at the Hippodrome today. The cast Includes Betty Blythe and J. Barney Sherry.

Berry and Nickerson offer a laughable darktown absurdity, "Tho Nicest Girl In Town," The Mystic Hanson trio, or the magio man and his magical maids, Blvo something new in mystlo novelties. The Three Beauties iu sn original novel comedy conception, Harlow, Banks and Gay in rneloilious momenta, and Hi II Mid i'N'a in a truwpolimi bouiiiimd aut, eot.pylute It, a iiew, THE UNIQUE 725 South Broadway II. LIEBES CO. Fur. AT TUB (Cvlitiuticd a I.