nlav Evening, April 11, 1925
THE EUGENE GUAED
Tage Seven
QFSYAND EVA BUY OUT SIMON LEGREE
,ry of Events Leading up to Acquirement by Duncan Sisters of Musical
"Uncle Tom's Cabin Show." '
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Rosetta Duncan (left) and Vivian Duncan, and below, Rosetta as "Tops
both of them wrote the songs. They
opened in Snn Francisco, and the
show was a "wow." Then their man
ager discharged the sreters. The
show promptly "flopped." He hired
the Duncans again, and "Topsy and
y and Kva, in partnership, have
out Simon I-pgree.
; doesn't mean anything unless
rend "t'nele Tom's C'ubin," sj
what happened:
in and Itosetta Iuncan. ning
nd dancers, turned . Jlarriet
r Ktowe's masterpiece into a
I show, Vivian played Kva
jva made a new record for attend
ance in Chicago and Rosetta, inci
dentally, secured a lot (if publicity
setta the coal-black Topsy, and 1 when a policeman in a Chicago sub
urb broke her nose for talking back
to him.
They came to Broadway.' The man
ager, still playing the overseer in
business life, didn't : get along well
with his stars. So now they've in
corporated, bought half the. show with
the agreement that they're to run it
themselves, and are the only two aet-ros-owners-marmgers
in New York
today.
T PLAY TAKES BROWN DERBY
icoming Pulitzer Award Prompts Talk on Seasons Best
Theatrical Offerings
HE NEA PLAY JURY'S
TEN BEST PLAYS '
ilida.
English,
liart to Know.
Full 'in v.
Firebrand.
(ianrdsinnn. ' ,
Slinw-Uff.
Wild Duck.
: Knew What They Wanted,
it Price Ulury.
liv the XK.V IMay Jury)
iUUK, April 11. They'll bo
limine tip the change and pass
Hie lioiMpiets for the present
nl Ke:imn in a few more weeks,
Pulitzer prise of $100(1, ir -i
ed. will lie awarded on April
his jury nominates "Thy
hut They Wanted" for the
with ."Wiint Price Glory" a
eciuul nml receiving execed
inorahle mention,
''ulitzer offer is "for the orig
eriean piny performed in New
hirh shall best represent the
mnl vnlne ami power of Hie
i raising the standard of good
good ia(e and good man'
award will depend this year
an f- r a lung lime past upon
initi'in nf morals, taste and
Kaih of the two plays men
reek with profanity nnd 111
' girl is ii"t onhodoxly "good."
?y ooml)ine more than any
lie qualities uf power, sincer
tnith. and they win this vote,
what piny actually will got
1 "f the prize jury? There's
)R. The prize might even go
f the two favorite's here nom
It might go to "The Kail
shrewd and gripping comedy
American vernacular bv the
lames (ileasnn and George 1
Ti:ere are ali-o "Mre Pari-1
resents" and the departc 1
" euity admissible as to nior-
and manners and possessed
in power. Juries differently
d might pick "Dancing
" or the O'Neill tragedy 'I
U'T the Kim."
n noteworthy plays are il
lain not to receive the prize,
the? is "Processional." ilte
tr"lv attacked and the ui't
sticMIy praised of them nil.
My acmnite satire, some
I'ipht we the greatest .infl-i-the
standard of good
There is "The Dove," i!ie
h" .pan-fl melodramas, nnd
rehrand." a comedy of infi
v 'n American autiior usui
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frankly obscene for the sake of the
fun it pn give. The rast ts thorough
ly coiiippti-nt. Among them are siidi
Provinceton players as Krigar Stehli.
Walter Abel. Adrienne .Morrison and
Helen Freeman.
The new play. "Ostriches." is in
the hands of a good conipanv which
includes Katherine Alexander. Jan,.
Heecher, Amelia Itingham and Mrrin
Johnson. Miss Alexander in particu
lr is excellent as a flapper daughter.
The story might have been borrowed
from the French stage. voung
woman falls in lore with the elderly
man who is the lover of her mother.
The two deride they wish to he mar
ried. At the end the girl suddenly
reverses, decides (lie man is repulshv
and everything concludes for the best.
The earlier situation is not convinc
ing and the solution appears to result
from the author's whim rather than
"is logic.
Dutch bob will be clipped. From
then on he will have to depend upon 1
his abilities as an actor, on bis in t
dividual merits, rather than upon j
cuiiuivn cuarm. auii ior mm rwu
nis roles during tue next tew yearn
will have to be very carefully selected.
At present there seems to be some
debate' on the part of bis producers
whether to direct bis appeal to child
ren or to adults, primarily.
Occasionally a story can be found
which makes the unirersai appeal,
which enthralls young and old alike.
but they are rare, and Jackie baa
had only one or two of these.
First showing of hia latest, 'The
Kag Man," have been keenly enjoyed
by adults, but haven't been so en
thusiastically received by youngsters.
Men and women catch its fine shad
ings of pathos and humor. For boys
and girls there is lack of grip to
the story, containing inonj elements
of little concern to childish imagina
tion. In this respect, "The Hag
Man" just reverses "Little Kobinson
Crusoe," which fairly made young
sters crawl with thrills and dreads
and; conquests.
Coogan is quite capable of either
role one offering mischief and ten
derness for the tearful chuckles , of
oldsters, or one providing " mischiev
ous heroics for those of his own age.
But to carry the bruut f a story
as a star, and to entertain young and
old alike, is perhaps asking too much
of Jackie, even though he is a prodigy.
On the other hand, children alone
do not come in paying crowds to
the movie houses. They are brought
by parents, and parents want some
entertainment, too. So Coogan's
screen job is to send the kiddies into
transport.? of delight, to hold sus
pense and illusion, and at the same
time to bring to their escorts quieter
and retrospective delights.
The golden age, financially, for
Jackie's promoters is probably past,
at least on the wane. Jt is unlikely
that the boy will be given another
contract of quite so fabulous figure
as his last with Metro. Producer:!
do not seem to be so eager to bank
on the next few yeara of this young
genius life.
And here, it seems to mo, produc
ers are underestimating the singular
ability and personality of the little
star. They seem merely to consider
him a winsome child instead of one
of the finest actors, irrespective or
age, on the screen." In "The flag
Man" he gives a moving account of
these talents a performance baseil
on art rather than mere childish im
pulses and a .director's coaching. It
is Jackie Coogan the actor that pro
ducers will have to consider jn future
contracts.
Ben Turpin Quits
Motion Pictures
LOS ANGELES, April 11. Ben
Turpin. motion picture comedian an
nounced that he has decided to quit
the screen. His retirement was made
imperative, he explained, by the ser
ious illness of his wife, who recently
suffered two strokes of appoplexy.
According to friends of the come
dian, Turpin is doing his own house
work to he near his pick wife, who
cannot, stand his absence and bcromoi,
irritated at the servants.
A pair of beauties on Broadway;
Above, Vivlenne Segaf, "Follies";
below, Jo Wallace, "Is Zat'So?"
mediaeval Italian material in the
French manner,
Foj-ejgn authors ineligible "for the
prize have helped brighten the New
York season. Thee authors intitule
Shaw. Ibsen. Molnnr and Galsworthy.
.Last year, it may be recalled, the
prize jury selected "The Show-Off"
receive the prize, but the advisory
Imnrd reversed them and gave it to
"Hell Bent Fer Heaven." "The Show
Off." incidentally, still is prospering
here, while the winner departed hug
since. And last year, beyond the pah;
of eligibility, were such imposing pro
ductions as "The Miracle," "Cyrano
de Bergerac." "Saint Joan" and "Out
ward Bound."
Coiigreve's "Love for Lore.' nnex
purgaterl and rohirstiously laughable,
lias been revived at the Greenwich
Village theater. It is the second phy
nf this master ft Itestnration comedy
to be given here this year. It U
Play Is Resumed
After Two Years
Will Jackie Still be Star
Of. Films? :
Critical Growlng-up Period at
Hand For Him
By JACK jrXGMKYEIl
NEA Si-i virc Writer
XE,V YORK, April ll-.A rriticl
poriod in tho profossioun life of
Jarkie C'onsnn is at .hand that un-ri-rtain
timo hctwocn bnb.vho.nl anil
adolescence which has eliminated
many promising juveniles froIn tl(,
screen.
There is no doubt about Coocnn's
survival. But soon he will be Jack
instead of Jackie. And . soon his
LONDON, April 1 1. (A) r.ad.v
Eurnival, whose iteeriiae in her own
j riuht is one of the oldest in existence,
! dnting back to J2fl". decided recently
I to take up her acting for the film.
where she left off two years njto, witn
a play never" completed because of
mechanical difficulties.
I.ndy. Fiirnival is the wife of Com
mander A. W. Asar, of the Brilitli
navy, who was awarded the Victoria
cross for hit) attack on the bolshevik
warships at Kronatadt during tl'ic
Russian revolution. Lady Furnival
is fairly tall, has light brown hair
nnd features which managers consider
particularly adaptable for .screen
work.
"INTRODUCE ME" STARTS STRONG
BUT GOES INTO EXTRAVAGANCE
Too Bad Hannibal Didn't Own This. Comments Reviewer on
Spectacular Stunt
To me this was the most effective
novelty in the picture, an unusual
element in film fun, checking laugh
ter for a moment, only to provoke it
the more after the impressive contrast.
The custom of lifting the bride
over the threshold of her husband's
home originated in Scotland, where
it was believed some mishap would
befall her if she stepped pn the stoop.
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Mary Pickford for
The Modern Girl
(Continued from page six)
ventures of the girl are followed from
initial employment in a r-aud-10-reiit
store to eventual business success.
Hokum (most debated and debat
able phase of current picture-making
i will be absent. Little Annie will
depend on human qualities.
Reasons for Miss l'ickford's return
to American modern girl parts are
two: firt, to please her fans, and,
"ecoud. to please herself.
Dress-Up Parts Hated
"You know I detest dress-up
parts," she says.
"Picture-production periods are iny
playtimes. When 1 can be myself,
or true to myself, 1 can have a
( regular romp. That's the kind of
picture this will be.
Hig names (other than that nf
.Mary) and' spectacular scenic effects
are no part of the program of Littlo
Annie. The story will present itself
for judgment without other claim than
its intrinsic merit.
Nor is .Miss Pickford the only one
whose early ambitions will be near
ing fulfillment as I jttte Annie is
transferred to film. William Bou
dine, .the director, is the other.
Property Boy Makes Good
Hack in the way earlv days when
films flickered and accompaniment
was a tinny one-pianist orchestra,
Humlinc was an assistant property
boy at the Kiograph. On the same
lot. earning $o a day. was a little
unknown named Mary Pickford. Some
times she played leads, and some
times '"bits" for such was Uie sys
tem of that day.
Itoiifliiie, ambitious then for ft fu
ture directorship, predicted that he
would some day direct Mary in one of
bis pictures.
A long time from then to now, but
Boudine doesn't neglect to say, "Ah,
I told you so."
Douglas MacLean and Anne Cornwall
Iy JACK JIWGMEYEU
(NKA Service Writer)
NKW YOKK, April 11 Had Hong
las MacI.ean sustained throughout the
picture the high level of polite comedy
achieved in the early reels of his lat
est, "Introduce Me," it would rate
among the best pieces of screen fun
ever done.
Miit in the end the plausibility of
situation, which gave it rfality and
suspense threc-uuartcrs of the way,
veers so sharply into wildest extrava
gance that the spell ia broken and a
fine effort aomewhat mangled. And
it seemed to me, quite needlessly
because of over-importance attached
to the presumptive value of novelty
"gags."
In this case the two final "gags,'
no doubt the pride of tho producer.
Arthur K Kane, and the story au
thors, show MacI.ean masquerading
as America's greatest mountain
climber, hurtling down a fnmnus
Kwi!K peak encased in a huge snow
ball, breaking trees and bouncing off
cliffs in a many-thousand-foot plunge,
to emerge unharmed beside his
sweetheart as the snowball encases
her and breaks to bits.
A very funny situation that, Jn
itself, hut not in tone with the rest
of "Introduce Me." , Despite the in
congruity, however, the picture is
still one of the season's best highly
entertaining.
MacLean as "Jimmy. Clark." a reti
cent young American impelled by sud
den love for "Petty Perry" (Anne
Cornwall), allows himself to become
tho victim of mistaken identity. This
forces him to reveal tho masquerade
and presumably lose the girl, or en
ter a hazardous- mountain-climbing
contest in the Alps. The real moun
taineer is orf hand to see that he
does not fake the climb. Love im
pells him; danger appalls him. And
the rirt'n fmhue i .1 liut,.i;rfn i
stirred to rage by many unintentional
oitenses. is a further burden upon
the timid young American.
Faint with terror, the boy who has
never even climbed a hill, essays the
ascent of the Malterhorn in a race
with noted Alpinists. Pursuit by a
bear the more imminent of two
evils forces him up the peak in rec
ord time, and the nforeinentioneil
snowball, formed by his rolling fall,
brings him down even faster.
At this point, where the bear en
ters the scene, "Kxcnsn Me" becomes
artificial, broad comedy. Instead of
showing the bear and the youth in a
pt.Piide although hnzatdous climb,
the camera is tilted at an angle to
make the violation of gravity plainly
evident.
nla'ncing this fault in rtireeHni
is a scene of high pathos which is
a stroke of genius. It comes mi
"Jimmy" is on the moonlit veranda
of an Alpine inn, asking the girl to
marry him. Together they arn glanc
ing aloft at. the towering Matterhorn,
beautifully presented by the camera,
where on the morrow the boy feels
he is to lose his Ijfo in payment for
his love.
Here is the sublime, mystic, eter
nal pate of the great Alp looking
down upon the puny human comedy,
love and fear, enacted as in this
movie, over and over again nt its
base. Some such feeling moves one
as this scene flashes on, and there
is nn laughter at Jimmy's ludicrous
plight. Perhapa, one is nudged to
think, from that altitude all our fun
is tragic, and all out tragedy comic
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office of tho
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DATE OF INSPECTION ( March 30, 1925
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