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TTTi DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1921. 17 AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS WAS HAMliT A WOMAN? FILM SAYS IT'S TRUE BILLIE BURKED GLANCES PLOT OF TARKINGTON PLAY tering about the lady's country house seeking the answer to the conundrum of her birthday. You must bear with Mr. Lunt while he hunts family Bibles, interrogates servants and tries to make Billie Burke laugh so that he may look at her back teeth. If you have ever been harried speechless, sleepless and witless by Sam Loyd, you will feel for Mr.

Lunt. And, when the curtain finally falls with the answer to the problem of Isabel's age unanswered, you know that Mr. Lunt will certainly, go mad. It is almost impossible to believe that Booth Tarkington wrote this mpssv lirrlp nlav If ho Karl wi-if. "HAMLET." Product! by Astsa Films, Inc.

Prefi.ntet!in the I-xinsrtou Opfra House. THE CAST. Kiels-en By You may have harbored, with Hie, the notion that in the films would be rather wearisome. If so, go to watch Asta Nielsen in the role, up in the Lexixngton. The girl is good.

They have her billed as "the world's greatest cinema actress." This sounds like the enthusiasm of circus pressmen and puts you off a bit. until vou have seen her. While I do not hold with such ex- I Asta Nielsen aggerated statements, I think Miss Nielsen is a fine and gifted player, rich in resources, beautiful in a delicately chiseled fashion. This picture works on the premise that Hamlet was, as some scholars think, a woman. That Shakespeare himself concealed and revealed the secret in various pas sages.

(Business of looking up your dog-eared, third-year English i copy of the tragedy to refresh your memory!) Anyhow, the supposi-i tion makes the story interesting, I think, and when Asta Nielsen, graeile and tragic in the flowing cloak and darkling mien of the I mad Dane plays the part, you think perhaps Mr. Ilampd en would better look to his laurels. These foreign film impresarios have a trick of withholding names of other people in the cast, so I cannot enlighten you regarding the identity of the plump, sentimental, fair haired maid who impersonates Ophelia, nor of the youths who do well the roles of Laertes, Horatio and Fortinbras. An old man who plays the wily Polonius is comic as can be. "Hamlet" is worth seeing.

CLOSE-UPS Lila Lee is resting, after finishing "On? Glorious Day," in which she appears with Will Rogers. Bert Lytell's mustache, one of the most important properties in "The Phantom Bride," a Bayard Veiller picture, was lost the other day. Work in the studio could not go until it had been "found. Nell Craig, who played the role of Princess Xashti in "The. Queen of Sheba," has been engaged for an important role in Rupert Hughes's next story for Goldwyn.

MtCXWWGVSDMiQHG MATINEE 3 to 6 1'. M. Armistice Day I ir: field nieht bloom sensitive to exposure and Lnfxu.n l-ir thrir hiphlv powd- ered surfaces. Thrive best where OJoldon Rod is thickest near the banks of silver streams. They grAv moriluxuriously on Fifth Avenue than on Third Avenue and 'are('rarely found in the tenement district.

There is ic grow ing in utmost every apartment building, in New York BUT lYor on I the indon sill. If you(would know more about the.scuniquclydevcloped plants sey Marie Doro II "LILIES the FIELD" at the A llTHEATRE. Vet 4'th St. iVLA Lves: 8.50. MatuWed.

bat. Popular Matinee Today HENRY MILLER'S Kvr. Mllta. Tllura. Sat.

2:0 BILLIE Booth Tarkington I.ATFST COMKIlY DUn nil STRANGERS" MEM AMSTERDAM WEST St-Evsrj 81 HAT WEO 6TAT SO 4 It 50 NO MICHfrl ZIEGFELD TPIUMPH HAPILYN MILLER UQN EHHOL GEO. 1 flu A 'I 'IIKATRK. Iea. at 8 1 M. vuimii Mat, A Mk: to I ED.

WYNN, "The Perfect Foal" MIS NEW MUSICAL RIOT. EMPIRE H'wiij Niit 40tli Si, Kw- 20 OTIS SKINNER is BLOOD snd SANE GOOD MORNING DEARIE uei-al Ctmidy tit ttH C.l ORF Nr" ULUE Saturilay Greenwich VII.I.A4.K Onen I IIK TKK Tom'w Meht THE STRAW r.i i.hK New Tiny. GAIETY A- 4 SI. Kveo. T(kIbt A Saturday "GOLDENDAYS Willi HKI.KN IIWKS LYCEUM A- Kt.

at 1.21 DAVID LA8C0 rrifuutm Lionel Atwill grand ou'e- 8ELASCO Wst Mats Ulrfrt. Etc. 11 Tl.urn A Sat. at 2.1' I)4VIJ OAVID WARFIELD In "The ftvfurn of Peter Grimm HUDSON UhNT 4TH ST. KVKS.

Mw T'l tV 2 THE SIX FIFTY PARK ot ti, I at i St MtfV (IV ft TheGREATWAYii imintlc lay tn EORfi M. COHAN'S r.OMFDINg In "THE O'BRIEN GIRL. test Seats 12 SO. Mats. Wrsl.

A $1 PORT Mt- at ii v'vylv Neit S.t.iidar at 5 i-i Mf II. I -o IAKUIS l'rent With WARY RYAN. in Lilies of the rield Hlth Norman Trevo MUSIC BOX IV. 45 St. Jlrv l'lTi? :1 Tuday A Kat.

berWs Music Box ReTu at 2 KNICKERBOCKER Kri S-SO. 'ert Matllles Saturday. so DA VII) IIKI.MO I. lltl.VM,Kl' rl i'icoim i ii(i THE WANDERING JEW By E. TK.M SAM H.

HARRIS SIX CYLINDER LOVE With ERNEST TRUEX. DULCYJ HAiiKK. Wt-sl 42.1 LYNN FONTANNL S3d ST. 4uiie Hall. bet.

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Celebrltleo. IMtsj i i-v hiiMminiT it i 1 1 1 i i JOE LAURIE, Two Littll l'Lls, Iui Voyage, Thornton Jh Crawford, Casey Warren. HirrM Wilia. LaU-n Troupe ami oihgrg. ANITA STEWART in "Playthings of Destiny" and SUPREME VAUDEVILLE.

Tiiistle R'i'W, Tomr Ri- mm rurtio, Moiroii, ANITA STEWAHT in "PLAY- THINGS OF DESTINY." James V. Umitan Co I-ana 1 I.a Harr Jieaux. Mi iter Anthony, Good- win i JitTinan, Must fat Jlunu-r. vUi. ANITA STEWART in "i'laytiiiiifci uf lcs.i!j)-" I AND MB) BALLET RUSSE WITH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA "Amanita." "Polish Weddina." TONIGHT TOM'W: "Polish Wtddint." "Fairy Doll." to at 11X OrtK-e.

iKuatie l'Sanoi IB.S. BROADVAY4IST MOSS MARION DAVIES in ENCHANTMENT BFKEITHYAUDIVILLE Bronx Opera House EJS At. CES, Sat. "The Broken Wing" I ITMRIA B-warlTwtco Daltrl Bilrlrnm WOWN SCANDALS With ETHEL SHUTTA filCIMn Bl RI.KSQI FOR LADlllVj THK EMIKK FAMILY AM. THIS HKKK MATS.

DAILY GOLDENCROOK BIG SI NBAY CONCERT 8:15 En pine It roadway nd Ralph Aw. IHriftfc I 'hone Biinlittirk S.ViO Bit Sunday Ccmre-rtn. Aft. -Nitllt "KEEP SMILING" With BERT LAHR tag SMCWJ fhr fca1 WIL CLARK ROGERS MANY OTHKR rTAKM A NO LEE WHITE and Smith McCULLOUGH in "CHUCKLES OF 1921" JOE NIEMEYER MORAN WISER eV Many Othpr Stars Si 8:13 1UICK lII.Y ELTING.E 42.1 St. Kvetiines 8 REPUBLIC W.

4M St. Next Matinte irr iiea lues, 1 he man flame 5ELWYN anjaw w. 42 St at a Mat. Today 2 SO JOHN UsXuaLA MRS. LESLIE DREVY fA I CARTER FSTELLE- III i3 JOHN WINW000 VUt-lriJ HALLIDAY ERNEST UJ ROBERT LAWFORD aaie RENOEL POPULAR MATS.

TODAY FRIDAY REGULAR MATINEE SATURDAY woman-Lois Weber-Pictures the Million Dollar Answer l. VA 0 WANT jnd ballet of bewitching beauties "THE DANCE OF LIFE I'KODVCTIONS L1LI0M KIXTON. W. 46 St. MtX.

Today, Friday Saturday. Rhihikraut 4 Iv Oallinrw ACRFATE5T SCREEN SPECTACLE THE WCCLP HAS EVEB KNOWN TWICE DAILY POPULAR PRICED MATS EVB.SATfc5UX.MATS mFim2? LslsiiMl MANHATTAN LAST OPERA HOUSE 4 DAYS S. HI KOK Present Elf IV LJ'F It al WHAT DO 1.1 1 "THE INTIMATE STRANGERS." A Tiny in Three Ants by Booth Tarkingrtcm. Presented In Henry Miller Theatre. THE CAST.

The Station Master Abbe Ame8. Alfred I.unt Iabel Iiiilie Burke KioreiK-e. Fraiu-ew Howard Johnnie White Gieim Hunter Henry Frank J. Kirk Aunt- Patteraon Mattle Clare Weldon Reprinted from Final Edition- of yesterday's DAILY NEWS. Ey JAMES WHITTAKER.

A pair of blue eyes. And you do r.ot care whether Booth Tarkington wrote a good or bad play for last night's opening in Henry Miller's Theatre. The blue eyes disconcert judgment and, while Mr. Tarkington delves untiringly into a quaint dramatic problem involving the unknown quantity of a lady's years, you wait as a pilot waits for the periodic flash of the light on the reef for Billie Burke to raise her eyes again. Her glances they are dealt impartially to all parts of her audience and are blue to the backest seat of the gallery are the plot of "The Intimate Strangers." It has no -The problem of the heroine's age is a riddle which may amuse you.

It is the perennial "How old is Ann?" But not by the wildest stretch of this line of type could it be called a plot. A plot has been defined as the Aing which mekes actors act. "The Intimate Strangers" has a plot a conspiracy, indeed to prevent the acting of Alfred Lunt, who is the gentleman to whom Mr. Tarkington puts his riddle. Mr.

Lunt, as Mr. Ames, is beguiled Into a premature proposal to a lady whom he meets in a railway station. By some weird juggling of the relationships of his characters Mr. Tarkington persuades his hero that the lady's age is a matter of great moment. Thereafter Mr.

Lunt wanders stut AMUSEMENTS PI AYHnflF West at :30 rutinuuM Brj, n.iHt Nrlt sxt. Oliver Morosco'a Cyclone of laughs. "OH! MARION" (Fonnerbr "Wait Till We're Married 9QTU CT of 07in a I. Mutiny r. Kra.

Saturday nUUUt in "BEWARE OK DKiS" in thg gryatst lmugMr.fi nnTelty in New Tort woman-Lois Weber-Pictures the Million Dollar Answer HAT WANT and ballet of hpuitrhinn heautici I In 'THE DANCE OF LIFE' HIWt.lMUllfHaimiHll4WUf Opens at 48th St. Theatre Tonifht. 8 JO rui? 'r mat. lonior-ow HArroxs' OAYKST COM KMT. With Mary Young and Juliette Day Ambassador Bi) NeIt st 'BLOSSOM TIME" Mlmieal Hit IVert Matinee Saturday 1 ti NtHXT FARCE JUST MARRIED With VIVIAN- MARTIN 4 LYNNE OVERMAN EV5830KATS.

RFI MflKT pu St. Tirrant 4S. Kvps. DtUllUBl -jo Usl Mat. "THEHERO" gfe'wHK 1 INACLAJRE in the Gay Farce BLUEBEARD'S 8th WIFE P1T7 THEATRE.

West 4th Street 1 Ktxt Matinee Saturday ASTOR THEATRE BMrafaitS COLDWYHS SENSATIONAL A aaaV If ial i ten Billie Burke's eves, there would have been something you could expect from the pen that colored Pen-rod. If he had written the ripple of Billie Burke's voice, he had achieved the ambition to be the great American playwright with which he has lately ruined so many sheets of manuscript paper. If he had evolved' the calf-humor of Glenn Hunter's gawky acting of the boy, Johnnie White, of the play, you could grant him that he has the wit of a dramatist and hope that he may learn the rest. As he had no hand in these matters we can only remember that, as a playwright, he was once a good novelist. It is exceedingly unfortunate that "The Intimate Strangers" is saved by a pair of blue eyes.

When the three hundredth audience goes into Henry Miller's Theatre to bear the play for their sake, Booth Tarkington is sure to lay aside the draft of a very good novel to write another very bad play. AMUSEMENTS. 1 liLSTREET 14111 THEATRE Cor. Hlh Street and (mi Are. Th two leading Italian Aetort.

GIOVANNI GRAS80 and AMLETO NOVELLI. in "THE SIN" and th. "HEART OF ROME." 14th Strut Theatre. Orchestra and various attractions. ITHE HOUSE OF if ORE I FILMS.

Ks Uarftn lv brW SET TOCETHEfif WORLD'S GREATEST AMUSEMENT STARS ASSKMRLRD I.V SI PKKU I' rUM, KA US BOOTH West 5th t. Uvea. Mala. Weil. 4 8 30 2 JO aV GKOHOF.

agkohok0 XHE I KLlbij CREEN GODDESS A I A I Then-, 4lit. W. B'y a i 1 a l. Bryant l564 Eea. :30.

Neat Matinee 2:30 MAIN STREET GREAT BOOK WtEATFH PLAY. BIJOU 30. St. w. Next of IV ar Iea.

Matinee Raturday BESSIE -BARRISCALE thTskirt I ITTl i ThelstYear Kre. at 8:20. Mats. TODAY A LONGACRE, tS St. Ultl Frl Jt 'jft A lean THANK-U Amen oca if The Smith Vvmedy Suctpm woman- Lois Weber- Picturef the Million Dollar Answer and ballet of bewitching beauties 4,1 'THE DANCE OF LIFE' MOROSCO rii Kvt-3.

2,0 POPULAR MATINEE TODAY APOLLO i 'il THEATRE. West 42d St. Ktps. 8:20. Mat.

8:30. MOROSCO'S New Melody Drama THEATRE GCJJJD AMBUSH GAKHICK, 65 W. 35 8 :30. Matinees To- WHAT DO i I fl 1 1 I Nevetty Souvenirs te i BVEtwBB aTHlS SI I LWIJLI LIJ T7 irrii lnlnial it mm i Tl i iH.