The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1912, Page 27

Here 15 DEAR UTTRE WILLIE. [THINK ae VB HIM TAKE A E Memories of Players ee Of Other Days M. B. CURTIS. "aa HE “one part actor” was e dis- action meted out to many | competent and experienced , Theepiana, whe paid dearly, . in the end, for such fame and’ feture'es was theirs, resulting trom an emphatic hit (as a rule scored anex- vot ee . claee wae'M. B. Curtis, e good ‘all-around stock actor, who had played many parts so well that he was at « lose to decide on a atellar vehicle when a had justified his becoming oo) *, Maoelient acter though ‘he wae Curtis never had earned more than $0 a week. And when he fell on the comedy ‘Sam’! ‘©f-Poeen'* he could not interest any of sth@ eanagers to produce {t. So, assisted ‘hy bis brother Frank, the venture wae * letmehed in the “one night stands” with amazing financial results from the out- mt Frank Bush was the most successful y@taiect comediah appearing previous to sCurtis's advent, knd be waa seen only in the variety theatres.. The tendency was tg resent portrayals of this type, but when Curtis opened at Haverly's The- atre thirty-five yeats aga. his Samuel Plastrick caught the town. For five Months the theatre was sold out at Very Performance. In two years Curtis twas a’fich man. Managers all over the country fought fo"sécure bookings. They would offer Curtis the same terms that were granted to large operatle organizations, No such Meteoric rise to fame and fortune had ever been recorded... Curtis was making By Robert Grau 8 profit of $9,600.a week. : ‘This extraordinary success lasted about elght years, jut Curtis wae sure it would last forever. He became care- lesa, quarrelsome and finally unreliable. When at his beat Curtle gave the most truthful and artistic portraye) of the type he impersonated that the stage hee ever known. ’ At one time Curtis had ecoumulsted about a quarter of @ qillion dollars despite his wild mode of living. He could not be made to foresee the day when “Sam'l of Posen" would fail to draw. ‘Mrs. Curtis (Atbina De Mer) made al- most as big a hit as the star in the role of the Adventuress, ‘Curtis tried several other plays and produced each lavishly... But the public Was not to be attracted. Many believed that only the Curtis escapades prevented @ continuation of the prosperity. of the one. big @uccess of his career. Finally. Curtie..ennounced | that.. he would retire from the stage, and with Mra. Curtis he went to California, where he purchased @ large ranch. While there je became involved in a mumer case, being confined in prison for @ jong time, though in the vnd he was acquitted, After his release from prison Curtis caine Hast @ changed: man. He @ade a dozen efforts to tread the bodrds, but failure followed failure, Finally in 1901 he tried vaudeville with ‘Sam'l of Posen" condensed, Everybody thought Curtlg would ecore heavily in the ‘two a day,” but a new generation of play- Boers passed him up, Betty Vincent's Advice t certain er met] Who.is trying hard to, nike my ac- quaintance, He persists in sending me ‘ho! 4 in otherwise annoying me. ‘What shati I do?” ‘Tell: your brother or nearest male rela- lve, 1fé will know what to do, + “B,C. writes: “I have been, paying attention to a girl, but three weeks ago) ahe suddenly refused to notice me, I kod for an explanation, but she “fouldp’t give one. What shall I do?" IT think you must accept her decision not to know you since she won't even explain it. T,, 8." writes: “When you ask @ girl Yo" go out with you, must you also ask hér. mother's permission?" * Shere are different customs tn differ- ‘ent. classes of society. Follow the ett. duptte generally obtaining in yours. | Tests for En.ering College. PHE first step toward true reform will be the abanaonment of the * certification plan of admitting to College. This plan, as it works out-un- rider our system, makes college matricu- | lation at once too easy and too dimoult. Tt ts too easy for those who are drawn | Wp, cog by cog, through twelve years of » “achool attendance marked by the per- formance of no really dimfcult intel lectus) feuts, but only an infinity of ‘“amall jobs." It 1s too dificult for) (pthose who, thdugh abundantly able and} ‘eager, have the misfortune to be obliged | “ota walk part way instead of holding) Cothelf seats in the education car, | (oBy substituting for the present plan: an exam{nation whose object, like that “Of the’ new Harvard examination, is not| “alame to tést. the candidate's acquire-; iments -in a minimum number of pre-| ‘requisite studies, but especially to find ,lOWL the quality of his mind, we would Sorrect both these evils at one stroke. | “@ueh an examination should be mainly * But not wholly oral; it should be con- ess by a committee of say three per- y vary sumMeiently in thelr points lew to make the test a fair one. | hia, committee should ure in ad-| * valice as completo a description of the Aidate as possitile from the school Jeintise deen attending or from other sources, Should this prove favorable on ali points—hts moral character, Antel- | lectual habits, the studies he has pur- {quel apd the degree of proficiency at- ‘ keiged in them—e very short examina-| : SOM grould quMce More doubtful cases | would require correspondingly minuter| } treatment, until, with the man who ~ pena present himesif an entire, | qtvenger, with meager credentials, the! bY ous become very searching.— Seoweh Ochatec fm Review of Reviews. o Lovers “D. J." writes: “A certain young man who calls on me has told me’ thet he |loved me, and I like him better than any of my other friends, But I go out with others, Should I do this?” No, if you are engaged to the young: man you mention; otherwise, yes, if you ike, \ “BE. W." writes: “It a young man woes out with several different girls ought he to object if one girl to. whom he pays attention has other young men friends? Certainly not. “Gd. B." writes thing, to Vhat is the proper when one is introduced am de- lighted to know you" or some similar} phrase. Should She Have Gone? . “T. P.” writes: “I bave been paying attention to a girl for eight months. She was invited to a party and asked not to bring me, as I should make the odd man. She told me about the in- vitation, but’ she accepted it. Should sion ig Not to TRY! she have, done #0?” Certainly, to you. Nervy Nat Nervy Nat—Well, boys, off to the jame? I'll bet your governo would remember me—Nervy vening \ World Daily Ma ga (““Leebos ser HERE. MY SOM, IS 4 NICKEL. You MAY 00 AS You PLEASE THe BUTCHER Bo EHS WELL —(MNoT BUYING * CANDY FoR. ANY “ OF A BUTCHER BoY tt q Ince she is not sensed VoL Ser YouR LICORICE “Cheer Up, Cuthbert!” 34 By Clarence L. Cullen 1912, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, New York ‘Evening World). = his Hoodoo is Twins, he Runs Down Copyright, (The the Road to Meet Trouble witha Hug! T HE Ignominy ties not in Failing but In Qualling! We can Always Duck the Yawn- fully Indifferent Salesman who Boredly Watts On us by Trudg- ing to the’ Next Shop—But we can't help Feel- tng Sorry for his Boss! Capital of Omis- 406—Why does a spoon in a glass 9) water appear to be bent? 507—How much deeper ia a,boay of water than it looks? 508—Why ia glass made opaque by being ground? 609—Why are delicate shrubs cov- ered with straw in winter? 510—What ta “boiting point” at sea level and how does it chunge on high- er ground? f The Crime HESE questions will be answered Monday. Here are repjies to Wednesday's: 601—(Why 1s Norway habitablet)— Because of the Gulf Stream, which tempers the climate. | When a Man makes up his Mind that zine, savyit For THe wove OF MIWE, WHEN THE NEXT GIRL OFFERS To HISS You, Leave ME ovy, Do You HEAR? (The New York Brening World.) q ber 29, 1912 TLLHAva Him, TAWA ) « By “Vic.” wa-aa-a! “HE BUTCHER Boy TEOKED ME STICK OF LICORKCE AWAY FROM ME— = Baw-w-w - It IT cant BE Done!! ME. LICORICE Trusting Time to Attend to the Lubri- The Pocket Encyclopedia. 602—(What 18 the origin of the word “grog”')—An English sea cap- tain who introduced the custom of serving rum and water to sailors used to wear @ grosgrain cout, which gave him the nickname of “Old Groj 603—(What are blood corpuscles?)— Tiny cells—some red, some whit floating in the liquid part of the blood, 604—(What are the vartous uses of the blood corpuscles?)—The red cor- puscles carry oxygen through the body. The white corpuscles avert and kill disease germs. 505—(What'’s the “window of the eye?")—It 1s the black spot or “pu- pil,” and it i# really an opening through which Hght is admitted. | el. Cullen} tion—and Time's Too Busy! When our Ghaving Glass Reproves us, it's a Sign that Old Hoss Con- sclene on the Job! If you ‘can't Brusqueness and Brutality, Well to Flag them Both! ‘a Just If we have a Leaden Ring in our Own Ears, we can't Tinkle True to Others! Address oné of those “Please Remit Notes to YOURSHLF! There's a Long Bridge between Sen- timent and Sentimentality! The Fellow who Harps Upon his “Rights” generally {s Subconsctously Aware that he t#n't Deliverin Differentiate between | ? hiss Home HIS The Com of the Law ees - ete “THE TWO-GUN MAN'S” Greatest Novel By (Copyright, 1012, by the Outing Publishing Ov.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. & New York va te iy newt to ‘ake oberee 0 Cha f as ton, CHAPTER XU. (Continued) After the Storm. ‘They must have piled ente him like @ pack of wolves, If they'd have come one at @ time he'd have Cleaned them up proper!” ‘They rode away down the tratl toward the cabin. Norton went in and looked again at Hollis, and then, telling Ha- selton that he would return in the after- noon, he departed for the Circle Bar. He stopped at ranohhouse and com- municated the news to tle wife Potter and then rode on up the to @ poim ebout ten miles from \hhouse—where the outit wae wert in apite of his ignorance of the customs & goodly store of common sense and an in- domitable spirit. Yet none of them ex- ressed sympathy, though their faces showed thatkhey felt it. Expresaions of sympathy in a case such as this would have been unnec- esvary and futlle. But sions of rage showed how affected them, Though they knew that Duniavey's for outnumbered their own they were for striking back im- mediately, But Norton discouraged this, “We're layin’ low for @ said. “Mebbe the boas wil he does he'll_mako things terestin’ for Dunmvey—likely member who was in the crowd which beat him up. If he dies—" His eyes flashed savagely. “Well, if he dies you boys can go as far es you like an’ I'll 3 te {eeeene Copyaight, Judge Oo, Nervy Nat—This will be the moral ruin of a heretofore virtuous bubbi can that, It will do a ul” at every corner and a highland fling between. Never mind; we will have a delightfully depraved afternoon, my boys, and all | hope is that the machine will not need our whole supply, that’s all, If don’t get into the papers ) It will be because they no longer i] print news—eh, what? Nervy Nat—We've put six cops out of business and run through a grocery store, up the Forty-second street Elevated steps, down into the subway and up again, and we are now headed for a saloon, This motor car has the automo-tremens, There ia going to be a beautiful finish, Just as sure ae—— 5 Be Nervy Nat—Put on full booze, boys! We'll Jump the fence and the day for Yale. We ought to be able to kick a goal from the fleid with thie Inebriated Satan Sulky of ours. You'll have to give this bubble a post-graduate course at Keeley’s college, that’s eure. By James Montgomery Flagg Nervy Nat—How tn Greater New York did | get a-hold of this leather watermelon? Well, I'll just take it over this goal, as long as I'm going over anyway. it may help old Yale, where | epent four 3 of my loaf—! mean life. should never let the old col- ut In one. Brek-a- y One Nervy Nat—Won the game for) you, did 1? Well, that was awfully | good of me, | should say. Want to| do something tor me, eh? ‘Teil you| what: we'll go down to the 8t. Regis and have some zebra cutlets and frapped prune juice. And— one thing more—send some wins Jelly and a bow! of Scotch broth around to Officer O'Toole. | feel rles Ald Ld with you without Goin’ emg "What's goin’ to be done with i i i iff ta E men for this ite kes Ip a 1; Id be tunity to print eome of He amited when he brighten. But he told him he woulé to Hollie—Af the latter got well enough te endure an intorview. If the boss ree fovered enough to be able to look Ace's poetry before it was printed, why + course it would have to be shown 1m. He didnt want anything to inte the ‘Kicker. which the bows wou lke, But if he wasn't able to luok al it, why he would leave the decision te Potter, and if tt suited the latter he Nd He would keep the boy: 1 boss's condition, Late in the afternoon he again yis+ {ted the Hazelton cabin. He found the Ai f 3 ge 8 we. seid * ) ’ H Cimarron doctor already there, Hollie . wan still unconscious, though resting , easter. The doctor declared that he would remain with him throughout the night. He followed Norton out on to the porch and told him that at present h ile not tell just how seriots Hollis’s in- , juries were. There was a great wound im his head which he feared might turn out seriously, but, tf not, Hollis would recover quickly and be as good as ever within a few weeks—except for his loft wrist—-whioh was broken. He pratsed Nollie Hazelton for the care she was giving the injured man. Convinoed that there was nothing more to be done, Norton returned to the Ctr- cle Bar to givo his attention to his work. CHAPTER XII. “Woman—She Don't Need No Tooter.” 'E Cimarron doctor's rs for the wound on Hollis’s head had proved unfounded and va the tenth day after his ex- perience on the night of the storm, Hollls wag altting on the Haxel- ton porch, his head still swathed: in bandages, bis left wrist in @ splint, but ‘nie spirit @till untouched, ‘The marks on hie face had all disap peared, except an ugly gash under his rit eye—whictr still showed a alight discoloration—-and & smaller cut en the ‘The Cimarron doctor had told him » wound under his eye would leave @ permanent scar—the wowad had been deep and in spite of the éontore care had drawn together queenly, affeet- ing the eye itself and giving & an odd expression. Many tUmes gince becoming able te move about had Hollis looked that he muet be Ill or ke surely | cerned in the wor! id have come, synonym imnennaantonee arta tear ati é