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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. MAY 20. 1923.

Ifero Spotlights Shino Jbf Jit mUD LEWIS AMcTjAZX 6ANP, GREENWICH VlLbAOE FOUIES, 1 About the Theater By ARTIIL'R rOLLOCK. WEN DAVIS' hick drama, Icebound," has won the Pulitzer Prize for the best American pla.v of the year just past, and there isn't really a great deal that can he said by way of calling the Judges Leviathan Band, Morgan Dancers, Clark and Bergman and Rooneys Top New Vaudeville Bills names. It is their job to decide according to the terms of the contest, and those terms compel them to pick the play that "best represents the educational value and power of the stage In raising the standard of good morals, good taste and good manners." A play could meet those requirements and still he, as drama, an atrocity. Why it is deemed necessary under the circumstances to criticise the judges for picking "Icebound" is a point not quite clear. They would uaVe been justllicd in handing the prize to the author of "The QolUflsb," In "The Goldfish" there was at least a character who made a living by teaching "good taste." "good manners" and good English.

An ideal pla.v, "The Gold fish." The heroine got educated right before your eyes. But doubtless "The Goldfish" wns not crowned because it was based on a play of French origin. So for as we can see no one need complain of the award save Clnuulng Pol Bright. Jllliet and be the headUm lecond week of the Jack Wilson who usher In New BrlghU Gladys Clark lock. He wrote "The Fool," which teaches practically everything and ha; done quite a bit of concrete good.

Theater's season. The Morgan Dancers will prese: new dance drama in prologue three scenes entitled "Helen Troy," depicting the famous 1 Henry Bergman Of course (he judges could have- Brat time at tt ewest one-act mi Seminary Mary, Cotaptred a bit and agreed among themselves to interpret "educational Browning, and best vehicle since "Tin Night value and power of the stage In raising the standards of good morals, good taste and good manners" to mean that value and power In refining minds and emotions that any genuine work of art possesses simply as a result of its being fine art. But ment-house lifo among the lower middle classes uptown, west. There is amusement in the play, nnrl pathos. Also (here is noting a great deal ter that) adequate by Florence Mason as the whit wife and by Henry Herbert as the Japanese husband.

"Uptown, West" is cheap and trivial in a number of ways, but with lis cheapness and triviality O-born lias managed to mingle quall- will I tho first local appearance of this comedy pair in over a season. Al Herman will bo hear I in a burnt-cork monologue. Among other favorite attractions the bill will include "Chic" Yorke and Rose King, presenting "The Old Family Tin w. Dornfleld, late the terms were obviously not meant to be susceptible any such Interpolation. They mean what they say.

Jams and Her tiang-. "Tonics of the Day" are that when he write: an And so to win the prize a play that happens to be work of art must and Pat other pla.v he will have the confidence have In it hero and there ript. all of the fur Itcxmey and Bent Top Bushwiok Bill. Pat Rooney and Marion Bent will be the headllners on the hill at B. F.

two that will persuade the judges that the art in It Is an accident and Hint the author's aim was low. Zoe to trust himself more completely to get along without leaning so heavily on the more obvious devices of theatrical technique. IF THE Ethiopian Art Theater did not aspire to justify the Inclusion of that word "art" in Its title there would be more fun in going to Akins' comedy, "The Texas Nightingale," hadn't a single chance of for the simple reason that it was the finest American play of the SCARS OF JEALOUSY" the Frazee Theater to see Its produe- NEW PLAYS THIS WEEK Monday. AT BROOKLYN STRAND An "art theater" is always i 'lift Hess and Joseph le piece was staged by Rooney. Frank Dixon a little laughing skit handicapped.

It must be ambitious. It must "contribute" something or "Greenwich Village Follies" And Lowell Sherman in "Morphia" Will Be Seen Here This Week i Strand sen- Manor nit-or-town e. The pie, nher to something or other. So the Ithiopian Art Theater has included lis repertoire Wilde's "Salome" and Shakespeare's "Tho Comedy of Br at 2:30 p.m. and tonight at 8:80 p.m.

Vincent Lop- and Ills Hotel Pennsylvania ird -si ra. Edna Lee-dom nnd Have Stamper, and all of the features of the Inaugural program will be seen at both pertorm- Leviatlian Orchestra at Orphenm. The Leviathan Orchestra will divide the top position on the bill at B. F. Keith's Orphrum this week With Ihe Marlon Morgan Dancers.

The Fnited States Shipping Board presents the S. 8. Leviathan Orchestra i under tho direction of Paul The orchestra will be surrounded by scenic settlncs of Ihe sea and harbor. R. H.

Burnslde John, Harry Ashford, Roberto Realty. (Jcoffrey Millar. (latently George Tawde, Jack VVhiling and I imls Giirney. its production of "Salome" a "contribution," Its "Comedy rs" might very well have IxmeU Sherman In "Morphia" At Majestic. Lowell Sherman, who Is proving himself one of the (1 actors on Ihe American stage, cc to the Majestic this week "Morphia." This attraction will conclude Shubert been.

year. However, since Miss Aklns was capable of writing It there is small chnnce that she will be disappointed at not being called to the platform lo accept a prize from Santa Clans. She Is too thoroughly civilized lo expect to win prizes. "Icebound" is made of all the old material Owen Davis has utilized on countless occasion before this in making his outlandish melodramas. There Is the will with the strange conditions calling for the marriage of the young girl and the man.

There is the had boy and the good girl and the grasping relatives. The only difference is in the treatment which would be difference enough If Mr. Davis were the man to make it different enough. He Isn't. He has adopted a new formula for the treatment of chnracter, but the new formula makes necessary a new man.

And Owen Davis is still Owen Davis. "Icebound" at best is an imitation. and Lloyd Hughes It Is a drama of South, of the i This group of coffee-colored play his jazz hand are ph Kutine. James ers presented during the past week featured membei principal comedlt or cast. Tl In the company OsiiriK At a jazz version of Shakespeoi Majestic Theater's regular season of ics of the Day" am nroseo Theater Tuesday The cast includes Ann Leon Gordon, Marian James Dyronforlh, Jean Theodore Wcstman I Bradley and Stanford ought to have been an exceedingly Pictures will complete thread of Longfellow "Evam has been picked up In the si Ihe strange hill people of Alab descendants of the Acadian: were driven out of Nov.

i Sci the British nnd tin Ir clash polished family of the old sportive affair. And, true enough, it tried to be Just that. But the will Be.liii Joley. 1H22-23. The house will not clOS however, for a supplemental set son of light opera follows, hegit nlng Mondav evening, May 28.

In "Morphia" Sherman is seen a brilliant and successful youit no, wl.u has p. a victim i to he Jolly Is not enough. For the Thursday. 3'HanlOt) and achievement of merriment In the Where Movies and Vaudeville Make Up the Week's Programs theater. Imagination Is necessarv.

m't sufficient to station a Jazz band in Ihe wings and set colored folic reading Shakespeare's comedies out llsh boys from America. Val and Ernie Stanton. In their nonsensical "The Ne'er Do Well" at IOew' Metropolitan. on English as it is nor spoken: "The Nevr Do Well." Rex In front of tho footlights. The fooling must have method In It.

Clowning, if it is to Ingratiate, calls for ac forget an unhappy episode of past and who Is saved from ahvi.s hy i he love, of a beautiful nn self -sacrificing woman. (Hive Te Plays thu girl and In addition Sherman will have the support i the original company that support, him during his engagement, at Hi Eltinge Theater in Manhattan, froi which theater "Morphia" will 1 brought direct tomorrow night. The Mal. stic Sllppleni, nial la. an p.

-n-1 i niv in 'Sunup," a play by Lulu Voll-mer. will make Its appearance at the Provinoetown Theater. The cast is headed by Lucille La Verne and Includes Allan Bor-mlngham, Owen Mooch, Anne Klsiner. Eugene Lock hart. Franc.

Bendsten, Rurnsldc and Elliott Cabot. The "Antigone" of Sophocles will be given at three special matinee performances at the 49th Street Theater hv the Equity Flayers, with Edith Wynne Mnt-thlson, Margaret Gage and Charles Rann Kennedy In the cast. The performances are scheduled ter Thursday and Friday afternoons at 3 o'clock and Saturday morning at 11. ovel in fllin form, comes to the at LOBW'S Metropolitan for a Italian comedy farce entitled, i o' My Sally Beers, char- on Kinsey, hard n. sofirnno; Edn; no.

and Oertrude iltn. Members of I Ballet Corps ere complished clowns. There ore no eek run. Thomas ha songster, and Edward and of flrst-rnte competence in I'M" te title role, and others in the big THEODORE DREISER'S letter to the Authors League refusing to join them in chatting with Adolph Zukor about the "art" of the movies, because the league, when the art of lllcralure was In Jeopardy recently, remained blissfully unaware of the fact, will no doubt give tho "Mas Men vrltten the Ethiopian Art Theater. In con son will be opened hy the prodin sequence Shakespeare Jazzed turned Ml.ii..' Soldier." a''' lai-L- nut to he neither good jazz nor good company and with the Shakespeare.

mnioriiy of the league's members scenery and costumes of the centUt Theater run. eek starling May 27 will l.e le of Lost Ships." vvlib Anna llsson and Milton Sills. LOEWS BREEVOORT filorla Svvnnson In her latest re, "Prodigal Daughters," wi The actors, in addition to lacking good hearty laugh. What do they resource as comic fellows, Reemed more than a trifle conscious that they care whether tho Clean Book League A "FOLLIES" GIRL LUNA PARK GROWING Fucceeds or fails in making American Theodore Roberts, is on todny's pt were performing In the name of art. They couldn't let themselves go altogether and be Blmple, rollicking col ALONG WITH CONEY gram at Loews Breevort literature ridiculous? They, most of them, are concerned with making about the life of Taking on the progressive spirit her acts Mon.l ored folk; they had something on American literature pay.

Dreiser appears lo havo another idea. Movie ultra modern girls who rief before she roalUws at home mean well and wnien is making a Dewer and greater Coney Island, the management of Luna Tnrk is apace with every move to make still more ex their minds. They had been coached. They were afraid of Shakespeare. lav and Wednesday will Inch ay and MandOX, Dolly Will Ihe Pederson Brothers.

'I inlf of the week Collins d. Carle and Inez. TJrrnn nd Johnny Clark and compa le among the vaudeville with Will Morrlssey and rights to novels and short stories bring large sums. It behooves those who write novels and short stories to talk tntngR over with the men who buy tho rights. What is this tensive the great playground by the sea.

Half a score of acres have What Shakespeare needs is a cast of Irresponsible zanies with a few at least of the earmarks of genius. Put Jim Barton. Al Jolson. Frank Tlnnev, man Dreiser talking about, anyhow" Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor and Leon Two New Films Featured nt fllvera. And, for the matter of that, just who Erroll in "The Comedy of Errors" and the result would be a riot.

been added to the attractive area of Luna, which a week ago swung open its welcoming gates. To the right of the main entrance, what was once the Sea Beach palace Is now fast taking the form of what is promised Will be the largest ocean water slmmlng tank ever constructed. Sea water will be brought is he? A droll fellow, obviously. Keith's Rivera will have this week the first showing in Brooklyn of two photoplays. The first half of the Week th screen will he, "The Last Moment." with cast that Includes "NE of the best of the more re- cent plays to come to town Doubtless the bard would fare badly so far as the witchery of his English is concerned, hut the comedy of it would cause nn uproar.

And no longer would it he necessnry for com is Liuoolu Oshorn's "Uptown, to the enormous pool by suction nnd mentators to call attention, as they havo recently, to tho fact that Shake then filtered and given a surf movement by mechanical arrangement. Christened the Luna Aquadrome, this new feature will be formally opened on Deeoration Day. In addition to the swimming advantage of MY DREAMS. speare's comic situations am as old as tho plays that contain them. fcred, each day will be marked by Shakespeare's age is not quite a secret.

At any rate, the members of Ihe Ethiopian Art Theater were mis quatlc events. Miss Swnnn Ringer, he young English diver, will give. and also Instruct. Near thin Improvement is the irgest concession ever built nt AT STEEPLECHASE taken when they concluded that they could Bucceed In being amusing hy simply taking thought and hitting Vney island and which will "The Tn this West." which began Its career as one of those plays that, being announced for "special matinee performances" at the Earl Carroll Theater, promised to be worthless and agreeably disappointed those who went to see it by proving less dull than wns expected. Its tille Is a fitting one, ironically Inappropriate to the tragedy the play discloses.

That trardv is the trag-Idy of a Japanese who married a down-nndout white girl and had to bear the ngony of watching her fall In love with the small town sweetheart of her earlier dnys. The play, though tricked out with a theatrical skill unusual in first plays of budding dramatists. Is sincere enough and of more than ordinary Intelll ince. And henealb its flashy tech there Is considerable good sense. Lincoln Osborn is observant.

Ami he has been able to recreate with no little success the almosphcre of apart- ward Chllds Carpenter, hy Fannie Kllhniirne, ,1 In tin Saturday Kvo mctur upon a good way lo be amusing. thrill, Comedy has a trick of requiring put under guarantee of real omedlnns. The Bohemians, announce for laughter, day an GOING TO ETERNAL CITY. Lionel Harrv more, stago und lereen stHr. and member of Amor- Fryor's famous evening Arthur nd gives concerts, us takeS place production early this Slimmer the annual edition of Ihe "Groen- Village Follies." If will be de.

nd staged by John Murray Ander, as usual. Merton of the Movies" I It week of Its run at IHta Owen In "The Follies" nt the Am-terdaw Theater, I summer In the Theater tomorrow night. pals for the film. The i I pan; win sail (or ituiy si.