PART IV EIGHT PAGES

ART MOTION PICTURES

STNDAY. JAiNUARY 15, Iltv» 'UinK tnri'n'i'; 'n recognizing and generous in applauding such., Srworthy efforts as the performance may entail. If all the audi-8 were as they are the theater would be eligible to a place among the

¦ One likea to think of the salubrious influence they would have upon^ould

DlatiC W°rka of Samuei Shipman and Willard Mack in case theytoteir 8° ^ See tllem' Here are Patrons of the drama who could 8T»V® **..feont?"1 ]aws- Still, I trust; they n'ed when they regard with admira-*aPDed"RffeCtC,i attitude oi ^he Guild's current entei-prise, "He Who Gets?»erf( ."~~til0UKh il ra"st be said that it is at least a picturesque and^/"^"ig pecuiiarity. From the first night's congregation at the1 ov«heard but one loeutioa that could be ascribed to a dramatic

Lounell Shernum «$ Gur Tatlowtn "Lawfitl Lareeny," with whitetpatt and white waittcoat mu»-plementing hit Tuxedo, teads utto tutpect he it tlicked up bythe eame tailor who lookt after

our barber-,i

Stage Gossip( By Beauvais Fox

ELSIE JANIS and "Her Gang" be¬gin a gii weekB' engageinent atthe Gaiety Theater Monday

night. After the New York run theshow will tour the United States.Many of Miss Janis's entertainers areformer service men, who participatcdwith her in her memorable oversea3 en-tertainmentB series. Juat as a matterof fonnality it is announced that the ve¬hicle that bringa her to Broadway isstyled "Elsie Janis and Her Gang ina New Show." Miss Janis has in hertrain Charles Lawrence, a comedianwho was with her in her recent ap¬pearance here, a sort of stutteringLeon Errol. Lawrence was one of thechief fun makers in Diilingham's pro¬duction, "The Half Moon," last year.

"Driftlng" will resume its run,which was interrupted by the illncsB ofAlice Brady, at the Playhouse to-mor¬row night. Ilelen Menken ha3 takenover the role of Casaie Cook, while

After sertng A. S. Matthemw m* rnnd ln "Bulldog Drnmmong- we than*tworry about m manicure for a month, (That't m. deep one.get it?)

New Theatrical OfferingsMONDAY.At the Gaiety Theater Charlea Dilllngham will present "TTlsie

Janin and Her Gang" in a new show. The supporting cast: JnrienThayer, Gns Shay, Charllc Lawrence, Bradley Knoche, Monk Watson,Herbert Goff, Duane Nelson, W. Dornfeld. Lane McLeod, Red Mur-dock, Francis Miller, Lewis Reid, Jarnes F. Nash, Dan Walker, ChesterGrady, Elizabeth Morgan, Inei Bauer, Mande Drury, Elva Magnus,Margaret Souaa and the Eight Bobs.Eleanor Ladd, Aata Valle, AidaSt. Clair, Florcnce Courtney, Patricla Msyer, Buddy Merriam, ClairDaniels and Paulette Winston.

Robert Warwick retaina his originalpart. Inability to secure an actreBS torucceed Miss Brady for a time threat-ened to cause William A. Brady toabandon the production, but he an-nounces definitely that it will be seenagain to-morrow.

"Just Married," the farce in whichLynn Overman and Vivian Martinare fcatured at the Nora Bayes Thea¬ter, has shown that it can endure anysort of weather. It waa originally pre-sented at the Comedy Theater lastApril. It was transferred to the Shu-rbcrt, where it endured the hot term ofhe Bummer. On the opening ef the

critic "Rather marvelous!" said one of the audience to another, andthe other replied, "Ra-ther!"

? » « «"The S. S. Tenacity," at the Belmont, le a better performance now

than it was a week or two ago. Mr. George Gaul has discafded all of hisfloBsy habits as a Parisian typesetter, and is at present-the vigorous,irresolute adventurer he ought to be. Mr.. Dunean, too,:as t.hei.6fnciouslyhospitable stevedore, has made his iniper-sonation moreexplicit.- I wonderif it is evil, as they say it is, to admire the acting of Miss. MargueriteForrest, when as a human little waitress in an obsc'ure French inn shefalls so realistically for the plausible printer. Some of the reviewerareport thia as a case of "seduction" and therefore to be aspersed. Tothis one the young woman is merely the victim, or the beneficiary, of theinevitable and the irrcsistible persuasiop. Saying she .will ne'er consent,she cbnsents with expedition. In case. the warm preliminaries of themost important of the misbehnviors interest you, look over this episodem "The S. S. .Tenacity." It-isan ¦'arrestih**-fragnie'n't, and it is playedby Miss Forrek with so wise and so innocent a sinfulness that you mayfe« dalighted w rf bar aurrandaz.

"Greenwicb Villago Follies" it wasremoved to the Nora Bayes, where ithas been seen by several marital gen-erations.

Adolph Bolm will present his BalletIntime in "Krazy Kat," a new panto-mlme founded on George Herriman'scartoons, at the Town Hall, Friday after¬noon and Saturday evening, January20 and 21. Mr. Bolm will appear asKrazy Kat. The cartoonist painted thescenery, which consista of twelve pic¬tures which change behind the char¬acters, synchronizing with the action.Mme. Jean Parigot and Emile Ville-

min, president of the Cercle des An-nals, plan to bring a touch of Mont-martre to the Lenox Little Theater, 62East Seventy-eighth Street, next Sat¬urday afternoon. Mme. Parigot, whoarrived recently from Paris, and M.Villemin will appear in "La Mode etl'Amour," a "revue Parislenne" in oneact, Mme. Parigot will also sing sev¬eral songs of her own composition, ac-companied by Miss Louise Keppel.The performance wiil start at 4:30 p. ra.

Broadway'a leading actors and aet-resses will play prominent parts ln thefortieth annual Actors' Fund benefit,which will oecupy the stage of theCentury Theater next Friday after¬noon. "Sports of the World," a sequelto last yeaW "Ports of the World,"" isone of the features arranged by DanielFreanaa, preaidaa* af tha iuad. "Ta_

Other Mrs. Bellis," a mystery drama,which will be presented by Al_honzEthier, "The Triangle," and severalone act comedies and dramas make upthe program.

Jacob P. Adler's completion of ahalf century ln the theater will becelebrated to-night at the ManhattanOpera House, when stars of the Yiddishand English stage will combine in theprogram. The veteran Yiddish actorhimself will appear in an act of oneof his past successes. j

E. F. Albee, president of the B. F.Keith vaudeville circuit, has arranged abenefit for the Knights of Columbusbuilding fund, which will take place to-night at the Hippodrome. Frlsco willact as master of ceremonies, and someof the vaudeville headlinera who willappear are Mrs. Irene Castle and com¬pany, Irene Bordoni, Bes3ie Claytonand company, Belle Baker, Ruth Roye,Margaret Young, Harry Carroll Revue,Courtney siaters, Anatol FrledlandRevue, Carl Randall, with Berta Donnand Mary Washburn, Singer'a Midgetsand Mosconi Brothers.

After several seasons in HenryW. Savage's production of "S.havings"Harry Beresford has return»»d tovaudeville and is to appear on the F.F. Proctor circuit.Ed Wynnrrt.rniscs several new invention.s in"The Perfect Fool." He ia perfectinga rainless umbrella, cigar a la minute,'-and others; at least he says he ia.William Harris jr., it is understoodv is*preparing another French play to fbl-low Ina Claire, in "Bluebeard's Eighth"Wife," at the Ritz, which goes on tourin two weeks."Kiki" is setting aswift box office pace for thc leadingnon-musical productions on Broad¬way."Bulldog JJrummodd" is far-.ing cxcellently at tho Knickerbocker.n-issing the villairiB berng'-a,-popular.fad ;with the. audiences...,, .Sam JI.Harris plans to leave'for' Ch7cago*"to-day to inspect the new Sam H'. Harris

Reginald Maton tn "The DomerRoad." Mr. Maton hat justtneezed, and it about to tneexmagain. Bulldog Drummond (atthe left) wat awakened by thefirst one and peeps out. AfterReggie tneeset again "SweetPuppy" Drummond will havereason to nlck another notch in

the butt of hit pittol

Charles Cherry an Lalimcr in "The Dover Road" toastt you. lolerantreader. We trird his stunt of ce same. that alltruths are not prcpsr to be told.

Blayds ia, or was, c great Victorianpoet, now ».t nlnety years of r-..center of tbe a"'»;:tioi:itte pr'de cf theyounger generation of authors t.id ofhis own family. The truth about himis that ho was a fraud, that the workswhich brought him success ar.d for-tune were, in fact, written by a II er ry"ghont." ITe revea's this uncomfort-able truth to his daughter, Isobel, andbo dies. The question for the :What is to be done with his re: tution, and, incidentally, with his for-tune, rightly due to the family of the"ghost"? The matter of tho fortuneis settled by the timely discovery o5the "gliofit's" will, an.i that of the repu-tation by the argumnit o." Isobd'sbrother that tho world doea not like tolearn that it has been fooled. Thisovercomea the conscientious scrupl sof Isobel, aggravated by the fa< b thshe has waated twenty years of her lifenursing the old fraud. Norman McKinnel as Blayds and Irene Vanbrughas Isobel add greatly to their lo-.nsstring of successes in thia play.

Unlike Milne, who chooses a sinp;leidea lor his play and sticks to itthroughout, P. Brittcn Austin, a writerof atories new to the stage, worka inhalf a dozen plots in his piuy, in whichArthur Bouchier makea a reappearancewith Lady Tree. One critic describesit aa less a play than an accution of staggera. Tlie author atartawith the intention of showing "thething that matters" to each of hischaracters under stress tf the mostviolent emotion, but sometimes heseems to be carried away by ..he sheerjoy of lnventing the staggera. Thereis Arthur Bouchier, who says that thething that matters is honor, .and cor.-sequently does all sorta of noble thingswith checks. Then there ia daui hteiNo. 1, who aays it ia love, and ne rlycommits bigamy by mi&take. Th*rithere ia daughter No. 2, who says thatjt is having a good time. She doesn'tadd much to the complicatlona, but act4as chorus and cxpiains them. Ththere is Lady Trse, the wife, whosays that it is social position, and e0n-sequently does a lot of foolish thingswhioh:. give the author a heap oftro.ublf. There aro other cpmplica-tions, but these are enough to go on"wttn. '. Anyway the audience seomed tolike them and their ciee.ring up, andta* actiag gives Ux« muaaroua situa-

tions every chance of making thslx.' c.

¦..i "Blood !»'¦