The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • 35

lil 5 yryiTT01 tOOi-dJnrnPHlli i 12T JTplQit A Af liOt) Tb A The -'Ginema Circuit I'' dene Betty Lely as Elsie Fergusol rave an excellent portrayal of a Iberia who thinks more of her atom- aeh than of work or even romance Angus Adsins was an earnest youth In love with the harum-scarum lass and Vernon Sylvalne was the pol- -tshed young Englishman who won tho heart of the heroine STRAW VOTE SURPRISIMLY CCORSTEFOKECAST By ARTHUR POLLOCK ee ft damsel whose courting by a young Englishman wii the main theme She played to perfection No less fascinating waa Densil Mather as Maggie Houston who having been to once and having done the foxtrot -at the "Palais de la looked at aakanca by the neighbors Nelson Ramsay and Jean Douglas Wilson were admirable as an old Scotch couple trying to bring up a eon and daughter according to the old rules The: minister of John Duncan was as hard es nails and consequently very wen tertained'by fine little company of Scottish players that Archibald Forbes brought over here direct mind ye from the Garrick Theater lrt London Was written by Ken-ward Matthews and he haa turned out a delightful entertainment Two love affairs are the backbone nf the plot which is as simple aa A and-everybody la happy -at Hie end except perhaps the minister who le dead set against-modern dancing kissing end the other -devices of Beelzebub v- Jeah Clyde waa a fascinating little 4" -i -Matt Moore The Film Veriion of Majesty Michael Green' Readies the Stage Bringing Pinero Up to Datew-- Bunker at Warner Theatef THg SUN shlnm bright far regular Bagle Classified ragalarly Not Nearly So Diverting as the i Vr Original s-'viV-cs't HE witty and wicked Jr is March sweet long-suffering and nobis im 1 i 4 to 3-Victoryfor in Boro And a Land- ide for Waterman return today make vti rioro evident that The vote which was held three week preceding thi eterUy gave a surprla- Vceurat forecast of what the day before the election waa hefcl Ti rated that the atraw vote walker would carry the Brooklyn by about 4 -to 2 0nrrred Telthe? with the Hy- jnisn managers who Claimed hero for him nor with 1 1 WARNKRS THKATKR "HI Majesty Bunker from tke Play by lee Wilson Dodd founded on the norel hr Harry loon Wllseu rkatartnc Matt Moore and Dorothy Perore A Harry 'Beaumont production tor Warner Bros -r thi cast' 4- Bunker Bonn Matt Moort Marie Breads vi Dorore Matthews Darld Butler JHb Drtcdt AtsysstAtes Nichole Mrs Breeds A IIeleu Puubur Prof Bftlthuaar Frank Leixh Oounteaa Casanova "NoraCaeil Reginald Lara bee Henry -BarTOwes Grandma Breeds Gertrude Ola Ire Mures Tuollle Wird Bert Hollins Gayne Whitman Fulton street Brooklyn Tomorrow A Special Sale' of- nice If shetrere less sombfcr about it though 1 This is a pretty good piece of play-making even if it hits a single note a bit too often The whitewashing of Iris forces Arien- the dramatist to the violent-use of exposition In the last act making one actor Leslie Howard quite uncomfortable since he sees the weakness of hla speeches Part of that laat act were really very silly weakening the effect' of those that had preceded- Iris has sinned fulsumly but we discover the nobility that started her sinning and we-see her go off to a generous and hackneyed death '-Katharine Cornell is the lady of the- green hat She cannot do with the role what Ethel -Barrymore Would have done 10 years ago or what she would do today for that matter But she brings poignancy to it a great and mysterious beauty (when she has her hat on) precisian and understanding Ethel Barrymore could have made this Trie at once gayer and more sad Mias Cornell however plays with its -emotions better than she has aver played before Leslie Howard la exactly right in the role of Napier who lovea her the only member of the cast who la axactly right' Thsre la satisfactory work by Paul Gullfoyle and A IV 'Kaye It Is a good cast Mr Woods has given the play and the players put bite into their work Another glowing love story spll acted la always an event Laat night therefore Was eventfuL 2000 of Full Fashioned Vd: Walker won by ratio 51 -Mns like 11 to 10 forrrast waa that Qreenpointf and possibly the May-! jUwmbly District In Bush- wot! to him while the Brooklyn would walk In wltit Z2d A na hi District In Bush- Whm AppBarm "HU Jfassfy Bunker Aeawi? in the Pieturimmtien ef the Herry Lee Wilien Nevel ef Thmt Heme et Thsetsr I In Medmm and Chiffon Weight as anythirg came with her green hat to the stage of the Broad-hurst Theater last -r' night-- to be greeted warmly by all thoae of her many admirers and vicarious lovers who could force their way lnto the small playhouse Wblch to say that Michael novel Green Hat put by- Mr Arien Into terms of dramawaa at laat presented by A Woods discerning loVer of all that Is exquisite In prose and poem and artiatocratle deportment It makes for the stage a 'romance glamorous as It was In story form though Its variety 'Is otf necessity somewhat less if Michael Arien himself was In' attendance had the management take sufficient paints to keep the fact secret and the hired men who manipulate cur tain and lights resolutely cutshort any demonstrations that might have led to his making a speech But Charlie Chaplin waa there in peraon which waa a compensation This Michael Arien has proved -g great Joy to his reading contemporaries who are most of them not in a position to sin with grace and charm but like to see others so conduct their elnnlng He le enormously articulate having tha skill i to put Into words aud deads the day dreams of tha rast of us He specialises in glib and graceful alnaers' 'vivid and lovable And so hi Green turned itno a play brings another stage heroine to- the company of Iris and Paula Tanqueray and Dumas Camille The' new romantic and 'Injured lady' Iris Fenwick (nee March) la thoroughly up to date hut thoae sufferings that sear bar heart are -much the same the misunderstandings the chances the tearful nobilities that mark hor pasage from reapaetabllity to suddan death are pretty nearly the same old hokums And Arien knows as wall aa the next man aa well aa Pinero and young Dumai how to Indues his ladies to win hearts VThe -Green therefore le during the greater part of the srsnlng warm moving tense and free of much of the trlto-es sthat might have been expected of a twice-told tale Irla le a modern Magdalen though she fancies 1 the old eelf-abnegatloa and the swell method of dying In the laat act There le no need to retell the etory You have read it or If you haven't you will want to attend tho Broad-hurst to see what this thing la all about If It were not that-the novel waa so widely read and so great a curiosity has been excited among thoae who have and read it I am not so sure that the play would tZ'A a D) waa 'carried for Hy-184 Rurtwick went for Hylan (16th A D) ana-while the in reenpolnt aeema to Walker by a alight margin 21-h and 14th adjoining it went Mayor The 2d 4th 6th and have gone with varying StfS- leJSSSf- rw flanres khin the Republican rank the 5r lrt forecast ha proved even yr -nerally correct Because of Spinor importance of the Repub-orimary issue it waa not nee-yPto ke detailed prophecy 2 outcome In Individual aec-iifThe straw polls ah owed how-Waterman exceeding hla two JJSnrti combined by 6 to 1 or JSjTand each of them by at least i Tbs final forecast made H-Bandar wa that "6 to 1 for ShMiman inrii Ufa Actual waterman icaJi both hip oppo S5 hr nearly to 1 In thS entire and by more than to 1 to tooklyn Theatrical Notes murs "God how I've changed! Eventually of course he makes man of -himself wine- hla daughter and gets everything that la coming to him Matt Moort it seems to this reviewer is the perfect Bunker Bean He comes as near as any men caif to bringing to life that timid In cfkdlbly gullible character If the production is not all that It should oa It Is not his fault Georgs Nichols was amusing as employer and Gertrude Clare as an acidulous "Old woman Dorothy Devore la the girl In -the case with little to do but look attractive which she does i acceptably If "Bunker were an original film play It would deserve some praise but too much credit should not ha given to an adaptation which is merely a rThe opening of Russell Janney'a musical play Th Vagabond at the Casino has bean postponed to Monday evening Sept 21 Rudolf Frlml has written the score THE sympathies of this -reviewer are extended 1 to 'any producer who Is faced i with the Job of turning one ef HarryLeon hilarious stories Into celluloid -Particularly are tby extended to the film folks who tried to snake a a screen play out of Till Bunker which would duplicate the popularity the original They have succeeded hot at all Tha really amusing momenta of the film are widely spaced and -the Intervening episodes are often dull because they are eo absurd To say this may seem paradoxical In view of the fact that the original yi diverting largely because of the absurdity of its situations but it la so One of fine sleek situations most beguiling In print often looks as bedraggled as a wet rat wban lltarally plcturised- So It Is here -Under the Influence of plausible word-painting and excursions Into the mental processes of Bunker Bean one may- for Instance he highly amused when the timid imaginative stenographer assaults a policeman who has offended bis dignity under- the Impression that the domineering blood of Napoleon flows in hla veins -it may read very well but It hardly gets by under the cold eye of the camera -Many of Wilson's most amusing situations simply pleturlss That does -not however absolve those responsible for the film from all blame A mistake -was made in- playing- the Wilson etory aa straight comedy wltb the ridiculous- situations Intact Either these should have been soft-pedaled dr the whole narrative should have been' treated aa riotous farce Subtitles have been relied upon too greatly to bridge In the gaps in rambling narrative which la another weakness The story of "Bunker Is built about the struggles of the gullible -young man of that -name to overcome an Inferiority complex He has great deal of wishbone very little funnybone and scarcely any until -he falls In with a clairvoyant who persuades him that In former- generations' he was Napoleon -and aa -Egyptian king One of the moat amuaing momenta in tha film oocurs whan the duped Bunker confronted with the mummy 4 at 165 washed-out shadow of the original HORACE WOODMANSEE Screen Notes -Still Life" by Noel Coward which the Messrs Shubert are producing with Laura Hope Crews will tart In Newark next Monday night fi Mias Alice Brady is now being immortalised In oils by the English portrait artist Joyce Roberta Whan the picture la completed Miss Brady will have it placed In the lobby ef the Playhouse A book publisher has offered $20000 for the right to uao the title of "Cradle Sam Harris' farce comedy success at tha Musie Box The offer was refused by BVERAL thousand 'pairs of excellent hose of finest quality pure thread silk with mercerized garter tops heels and toes in a wide tange of new colors A DELIGHTFUL-' COMEDY OF SCOTCH LIFE is tho name of a charming play of Scotch life that makes a blase New York audience forget the heat and the highbrow attitude that is usually so much In first nights Those present after the first 16 minutes Just allowed themselvis to be capitally en- Thirty blind peraona will hear the TA jnusic photodrama Mch ta in its last week at the Cento at tonighty performance Bach mi person will be' accompanied taadeV who will explain the ac-M os ih screen es the special gore arranged from Wagner's work is played Mr Harris Every Pair Is First quality All redheaded girls In Greater New York who answer the name of Mary Ann will have an opportunity of witnessing "Aloma of the South with Mary Ann Dentler in the title role at the Lyric Theater as guests of Miss Dentler if they write to her about it prove of great popular appeal Bo pie of the charmia-loet all its gayety Several hundred enlisted men of Co firt non- anchored in -ha Hnd- sera guests of the management of tbs Msnlaitan Strand' at vester- fefi matinee "Shore the 'our film has many scenes laid board the 8 Wyoming Tb management of '-the Capitol iMouncts that now In second week at that- theater Ktke ill Capitol records for receipts 'rs first week A total of 67607660 tii poured into the' box office- James Crane will ply In "Venice For the new Rol Cooper Me gr tie play He Is- now appearing In Dressed his services having been loaned to A Woods by Arch 8elwyiw cannot bo brought from book to play since a play la ahortar and demands greater unity of mood But Irla March la a sweet woman and we like to see sweet women suffer when they know how to do It well It would be of -the Egyptian king he was supposed to nave boon runs hla Angara over the shrunken features gnd mur- v'r a extra performance of Charlie in "The Gold Rush lsbeing Itn every evening- at- the Brooklyn Rail Itbr gina at gh3hs- V7' 4 'a i '1 j- 1V 'viV a 1 tsiXjrtF is opening Atinoon each day and tkl morning shbw at 10:10 next Saturday there will bo pe- 'J- -p -it Livingston Cabinet shown closed Style A Burl walnut or brown mahogany the -producer Kane fmind a cjiair of film to I i Atwater Kent new model 20 In -Livingston'- pcn EkilfcmJfilUTghlqn 4 i A -y 9 Madame and t- Mademoiselle Do You Know Collection of i i if i 1 I ii 'ji 1- I il i I- 1 1 If I I ii i I I Pobe rt hc offer attraction in a large' university iw4 comment recently has Untied his first production 'for First 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