Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
Recalling the Early Gilbertian Days' kl THE BROADWAY on wee fhe Lites to Be Laughed| F& “At on the Stage, but Not on the Street--In' ~ Her Slimmer Days She| Played Patience, Dairy- maid! And. Though She Now Peele Like a Trage- Part. BY CHAiLES DARNTON. @eemed the Inst place in town to look for Eva Davenport. Clim> fag out of the subway at Ono Blenéred and Tenth strect and clan: at the lamp-post on tho cor- ‘was impossible to con- even an approach to a lamp-post was probably a bit twisted. N-no! At second glance appeared straight enough. People w: | apparently knew where they were going Rerried by, Except for myself the only * he sald, waving ' remet' it was a queer way. bers on one side of the street @o with the numbers on Simple arithmetic got than the gutter. Finally, : ber came out of the pe Read answer to 4 riddie. the far end of @ wile court of a star. Presently 2 Mies DAVEN- mR CAVERN. TI directed, plung- ‘to admire ‘Patience’ mai®—as a comparatively eitm- unchanged. help my slow imagination she IP AND PLEASING, “Twas pane Pye and pleasing,’ uggestion of ist. for women didn't draw the nie, eay they believed that should be given a liv-| © ell, anyway, I mi Ml cidae Of wap Os tk must be funny. Suri ik I'm @ tragedienne, but he pay two dollars and I'll ‘8 Sood laugh.’ 1 don't know she ever came, but if she did }» After all, you kno fe wothing funny in just being f: friend Again saved me f: 9m LING THE MERRY, MEN. 10U8 CHILOHOOD DAYS. ales ‘De bin no aren't they = iy tal ai en an awful | in this direction wa: t Funny to Be Fat, “Saye ie Davenbort ‘GME To THE RASS AND PAY DOLLARS: AND TLL GIVE You A_ Good LAUGHS later, ‘This fired my imaginati until I in turn dassied he But deep down in my soul was the; donging to be a beautiful dan or in pink | tighte and oki or Compton ut she shook her head. she say!, “it was just a child- {eh notion of mine. was no harm in it. It stimulated my| imagination. Evi along without old enough and fat wh to know be! It took a street car conductor to bring me to my tenses a day or two you-enter cars say Will be too much of dye’ when an unsympathetic voice shouted in my ear ‘You d drop my nickel in the box. ‘he only moral to be drawn from this tale was that street car conductors do } e Gilbert. Meanwhile the Davenport went “A fat woman ts bound to have her troubles, My greatest trouble with Lady Jane grew out of the difficulty of giving her @ pug nose. Doctors, law- ges and stage hands offered all forts of advice, but my face remained @ hopeless blank until Judge Peter Hon- ks of the Supreme Court That did the trick!" JUDGE HAS SOMETHING ON, MERE CRITIC, AFTER ALL. There was nothing ti dom of this learned dumb. Why were stn mati opinon: le-minded dra- deyond thelr own noses, who—! Bullivan plec now when I get a /oY¥ Gilbert a AT ta glance what a nose e it character, meaning, amatic value? Away with critics who could not s MASTER BUILDERS UPHOLD COMMISSIONER JOHNSON. Davenport was saying: A committee of the Master Bullderw @ never gone in very much for! Association called at the City Hall to- All the extra halr I wear, for | day to present to Mayor Gaynor @ sot ve cut of my own head. | of resolutions adopted last night at a Mathe way ot Sargealeer the Cait ote | meeting held to consider repent criti- . And Gilbert 1g just ax|ciema of Fire Commissioner Joseph able to-day as he was then. Te |Joanson. The resolutions are an 't depend upon scenery and other ie commendation of the commission- for the way in which he has ongan- lzed the Fire Prevention Bureau. ‘The committee Bt bygar to take the Nobody can ‘say whether there will Ny. Sullivan revivals twen' 3 five years from now; but It seems ga Ba) seatiations Feieurved that though to predict that these wonderful comic] Mr. Johnadn tad been blamed dor vio. operas, with their incomparable iyrics, | at ie eee ot eee oe will be in every good Ubrary, private ‘or| bY appl ge | henge d of the em- public, for generations and I grew pores of tl naa tH yd from the company, and gave them in Australia, lf a oer, ty "4 ieeearati india and Japan. In those daya I ap ; States Government departments in mak- pre the prima donna, but some-| {ne temporal how it has always been my ambition to| Tolls until t be the comedienn ier than the prima | established b Zoese.. But iet not| Prevention Bureau nearly #0 funny as 1 touches im for my wa a - Tooked at Tt, One hand had fallen by J Pong a committee t0 co-operate ae the wayside, Still, I could see it w. Se Uisiod Balen nae: Te taksg eee ui to go. ad some iui the action concerning the “fire eprinkler trust” under the herpes act and the Donnelly law, y again, jooks to be fi iteemnatneedaniet THE REV. MR. STIRES IS NEW POLICE CHAPLAIN. ‘The Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, rector of St, Thomas's Protestant Episcopal Chureh, Fifth avenue and Fiftyethind street, was appointed a police chaplain yesterday by Commissioner Waldo, The appointment was Commissioner h loner of Dr, frat “oMolal to attend the police parade this after- Why not stern judgea who Your hair looks soft, fluffy, lustrous and abundant after a Danderine hair cleanse | | wavy, y, abundant and appears soft, lustrous end beautiful as a young rl's after a Danderine hair cleanse, ust try thie—moisten » cloth with « little Danderine and carefully draw {t pi your hair, taking one amall at a time, the heir of dust and in just tired of telling me of Piano playing of her Ut doubled the of you iy eslasly those whe hove bea : NEVER ANY FALLING HAIR OR DANDRUFF IF YOU TRY THIS. hoon, seated in the grand stand, W.L. $3.00, any ot! BECK USE ‘Bue a= sn iam Tale $848 Bean whose heir has been neg! », faded, aed or ihm lole a] ‘andra cleanses, pu: nd lavigsnu i} igyever stopping itching 3 you cannot find ong as you will, or falling hair an your sealp will never Itoh, but what will please you most will be Ping a few weeks’ use of Dandori will actually seo new hal: Ke and down at firet—yor—-but really new hai eprouting all over th i Pit te ped, butiders say, {t le working in a way to zs YB i) AS SUMMER SHOW se w produced by George v. Lederer, comes to thi t Broadway Theatre next Saturday ni The music is by Hans Linne, an Aus trian composer, and the book and lyric are by Junie Moree. After taking seven years off her age preparatory to taking 4 second hOsband, Mre. West finds it a ward to explain how ther “baby'| tor" who returns unexpect: “Kitchen cabaret. in the cast wilt be Grace Tyson, Sallie Stembler, Anna Loughlin, Elisa- eth Murray, Junie McCree, Arthur Mo- Watters and Albert Hart. eee Andrew Mack in “Tom Moare” will be the attraction at the Grand Opera House. “The Thief’ will be played by the stock company at the Academy of Muste. Corse Payton and company at the West Bad Theatre will present “The ” “Alias Jimmy Velentine” will be the offering of the stock company at the Mantattan Opera House. “Phe ‘Golden Crook” will be seen at y Hill Theatre will be Miner's Theatre in the Bronx, Ben ich and his burlesquers will be at the Olympic. The auction sale of seats for the Lamba’ All-Star Gambo! at the Man- hattan Opera House on Monday evening, May %, will be continued at the Hudson Theatre on next Monday afternoon. One of the features of the performance will be “The Ination of Caesar” with James O'Neill ag Cacsar, Robert Man- tell ag Antony, Wilton Lackaye as Bru- tus, and Frederick Warde as Casatus. New features at the Winter Garden will be the Two Hollanders in Carnegie-Alaska-Siberia moti phate taken by Capt. F. echmidt, the famous big ga: will be exhibited at Theatre, beginning on Monday evening. VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. At Hammeratein’s will be Juilue Bte- ger in “Justior,” Blossom Seeley, Gabriel, Gortcase Vanderbilt, Ryan and iit at the Fifth Avenue Theatre lude Ida Brooks Hunt and Chert- 4 @earl Alien in ‘The General Baleaman.” ‘Amons ethers at the Colonial wil! be T Mack and Orth, Edmund “The Plano Mover," and ferson jr. in 1908,’ comedians .n “Hazel Weston, or More Sinned Against Than Usual,” W. C, Fields, the juggting comedian; Wilbur Mack and Nella Walker, and Trovato, violinist. ‘The dil] at the American Theatre wil) Include Josh Dale, Thomas and Ward, Joste Livingston, the Cycling Brunet! Deery and Carter, John Benedict and company and-the Great Zarell. SUMMER PARKS. Palisade Amusement Park, opposite One Hundred and Thirileth street, opens this afternoon. Frank Goodale. the aeronaut, will make flights twice daily, and among other attractions are the Roysl Italian Guards Band, “The Rise and Fall of New York," a spec- tacle showing the destruction of the metropolis by “an electrical storm; the Gyroplane, and Blake's Dog and peey Circus. “In Pars, Coney Island, will be opened at 4 next Saturday afternoon. One of the spectacles will be the Dur- bey at Delhi in honor of King George | and Queea Mary of England. jechase Park, with many new features, will have its forma) opening to-morrow. ‘The coming week's bill at the New Deishton Theatre, Brighton Beach, will include Zelda Sears in "The Wardrobe Caesar Nest, “the East Bide Cloyne, Treland, has been awarded to W.L. DOUGLAS George Van Sentvoord of Troy, N. ¥, Summer must be here all right. While tl ing the arrival of a white warm weather unifor: | The txperim nd platform summer by ¢ found to be the policy w' SUBWAY BOYS IN WHITE Summer Uniforms on Guards and Gatemen Inspire Passengers. to Get Panamas. Furred Tongue, Bad Taste, Indigestion, Sullow 8 come from a torpid liver a: iogeed bowels, which filled with undigested food, which sours and fermen That's the first step te untold misery—foul gases, bad breath fears, everything that is horrible and nauseating. A Police parade w. t toni lor mont! success, and this year be continued. into ite own to- subway passen- of the guards and conductors, | themaéives to hat stores as soon as they and bought straw lids. rman says it will prob- ably be fair to-morrow, with the ZIRA Girls fl oe es 4 sin uly ne, But - ( i ax Tat a7. ea ZIPA in “lh or . Look who’s here!—No. Lovely Luella Zira. MI ay i * i i No wonder ‘she is called the SMILE COAXER. Look for her in every box of ZIRA Cigarettes. and Miserable Headaches ¢ your stomach to become ¢ garbage in a swill barrel. low skin, foveal straighten td out by morning—a 10-cent box fe m your druggist will keep fai feeling good for months. i