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ob AR Three Whole Days With a Carbuncle By Willie Collier rr HREE DAYS WITH A CARs BUNCLE," by Wililam Collter. That fs the title of this story. Mut before we delve deeply and quafft of {ts rich, philosophical humor, let us first get a mind photograph of our earnest young author He {s lying, gowned In a rich yellow dressing robe, with funny little curied- Up-at-the-toes slippers protecting hts unresisting feet, on the bed in his apart- ment in the Algonquin Hotel, ‘The: are no other physical signs of the J'VE GOT_A MARB_SART I'm @ comedian, for I'm the guy th put the car in carbuncle, Ha! Wal Ouch!" Mr. Collier laughed, and the! former residence of the carbuncle ob- Jected. “Don't make me laugh again,’ young man,” said the actor, resting carefully against the cushions behind his back. Then there was an interval! of silence, while Mr. Colller tenderly felt the back of his neck. “I've apent three days with myneif' and this carbuncle,” he mused. “Three, long, unhappy days, but It's taught me patience, goodness to men and dumb’ Antmals—and when I get well tt will probably hand me a laugh. “If—f—some one had told me that a. carbuncle had such a sense of humor. as it h I would have sent for the' dippy wagon. A carbuncie ts only ane, other nan.e for Mark Twa! It com veually when you have the highest tind! of @ collar on and when you have t¢ employ all the munctes of your neck al} the time. This came in the very middle, of a scene in ‘Never Say Die’ last week. I and my carbuncle friend went to the dressing room and talked it all ove ‘Bunk,’ 1 eafd, ‘why can't you wait until next summer, then you can be; even warmer and hotter than you are now? If you're real good maybe 1'tl take you down to St. James's beach and fet you sunburned, then you'll be able to make al! the other carbuncles blueh: with shame.’ But do you think ‘Bunk’ j Would etand for it. No, he Just swelled up with rage and tried to sce If he; could make me bite my lip off. ; “After a few days we weren't on | speaking terme, and Tuesday night dip-, | lomatte Telations were off, and so was With Plenty of Pie He In- spired Youthful Actors to Do Their Best for “‘A Good Little Devil.” I. It waa impossible for me to play One thing an actor never wante to do | 18 Ateappoint hie pudite. j war on ‘Bunt.’ BY CHARLES DARNTON. as dog's a man.” “Yes “And the deer’ ot" “The rooster's another boy—hiding So T declared T sent for Dr. Oscar, | Letser and we held a death watch on (him. But he died hard. He used every’ | Wetle burn, Itch, tickle and twitch at WILLIE AND HIS CARB UNCLE. | nig command, 80 the doctor committed buacle, which wae removed by @ deft| Murder and cut him out. surgeon last Wednesday, than a clean| “Oh, yes—yes—a carbuncle {s et ly@behind a bush.” 4 white bandage and a amile of resigna- Lissa hepa ae before his demiseQ “Small bo; 2 00 . | was a chatty fellow. te aan \ py | pee v0) omecene Lad ites souvarea dou oHih eope ber ieee weet Lirdabrl todo dicta beget Mae. Collier was unabdie to manipulate a when 1 wanted to sleep, . oa eo) 2 ot ata the Sauisreli ier! pencil, #0 an Evening World riparia It I lay down on my right side@ “Give it up: 6 It for him. lice reid a © all the nerves in myZ “A man’s hand. And so it goes.” ‘Yes, I want you to write a funny|neck and twist them into @ satlor's® “Through the w! story about your carbuncle,” the re-| knot and then play the prison scene’ . . : rate eee porter had asked. from ‘Faust’ on them. Then I tried 0," answered David Belasco in a} The comedian rained himself and hie| my left side and ‘Bunk’ beat me to 1goroken voice, “the rabbits are rab-| & boy, hp ait ~— Belasco’s New Role of Stage Animal Trainer, He Declares, Makes Him Feel Like a Boy Again v= pm) Now ALL , TORETHER RAR enn res LITTLE man with coffee colored A. complexton 4 in slippers one! York at night Is the day thie week on the roof of the| studded diadem of th Hoyond and gazed at a coveted city, He} "I can Was a little man who suff from a| New York by reputation: persons tn authority had sald that he could look his fll, but he could] in Hertin and other not feel, touch or enjoy that elty because|#igh for thelr ‘little of that reputation. 1 well It was like Coronado standing on a And outline the city New exert mesa and viewing the Seven ities of Cibola in the haze of the dis-| the vay aly tance, but attaining them never. In| of tholr city. ia respect, however, the little coffee red oman, Don Cipriano astro, lately of Veneguela, differed from his Mpanish brother conquistador: Coro- nado didn't view Cloola in slippera and Don Cipriano did attain New York-—for a little while. Yesterday he rode In & Broadway car to the Federal Muilding nd back again to the Battery~and Hin Teland, Our South American brother, who finds a chill to the hospitalicy of the U.S. A and who has viewed us from the roof of the Ellts Island building ‘where he has temporary domicile, wants to MIX here in this city of night lights ond crustaceans, bums ‘and boomers; that's what Don Cipriano wants, He opened his heart to an ivening World reporter the other day. “T know New York as though f had nth nd," began ¢ » “You mee, T have the elty that T would find y about as though T hat lived here all my life. Even In tho: rring Jaye back In Veneauela T wan f enitiar | ven with the doings of New York, and after! ay the my exiled years on the Continent T be ‘ame more thorougily acquatnted wit Lhe elty of ite ‘True, my Real Rabbits Were’ ter knowledge of New ( ; i ite Salad to “Play Up’), newspavers, books and magazines. (chou + to return at ‘ care T have dreamed of visiting Naw York and seeing the places IT know #o/lamp and the ald of and now at last my dreams are|conjure up a mo it to be reallged Newlinspiring sight tha rk, iny beloved durk New York. enchant old Dinner Time! [ror must be held up to mature with a steady hand—es. ution cannot save the amtle. ‘This ix the first time a fairy plas has been produced without note of Incidental music, and app Hit’s not imiaved, It ade up > fairies Ww in’ the the savory shelifiahes many |have seen the pictur Since | have been the at} Minis and all the of your most excellent Government & ave had Alfredu rend to me every of the affairs of New York © her on “New York”--By Castro From The Roof ] Of Ellis Island Glass from being shattered "Yes! continued former peace} “I have seen the R let's Ket ba A Good Lite’ know the lobsters of New etures and in reality,” Devil,’ "he proposed, with «a boytsl I have mentally amacked my/awarthy Don throu others, the New York girl abroad, and now I of dreams. New sigantic, diamond e earth. well understand the love of Yorkers, I have Matened to exiled Gothamttes in Parts, Continental cities old Ni York.’ erstand thetr feeling now, £ can realize how joyful they must feet wie the big Iner forging Ite way wp them their first glimpse But were I eway 1 would VEEP does CIPRIANO. night, when the I know all your leading restaura™ |areat bulldinga glimmer through the at End of Second Act 1 | know thelr bille of fare. For|dark for all the world Uke @ elty of Alladin with. ble the genfl could not beautiful and awe the mystic after New York girl in rattled on the » his valet. “ft s of your Gibson 1 have seed her native heath— perhapr boulevard would be the {mitatt wouldn't have nd y pail betior word, evebrows. by giving an imitation of a snake dancorQbits. They're real. And real rabbits. Oe Ae crokiie oa eauenls ; aan il ma rallies ent CIE sie fa fact, the daring fellow got out of Ligue rier niga are a great responsibility. and fireflies and r and fal hibway 1 have not Ye » with my|pointed in New York. Perhaps the Fetien 0f Tve tried 0 make 4 n , “Brhape. my @ear young man, you|coloring & ¢arbuncle regne supreme, 1a, 1” hie new role of animal trainer Mr. Ane Wace tae from wn even but T have feasted mynelt} tty win eat come wp to ay * think it's funny to aupport a carbuncla! is deep bright Harvard red in the congo ieee felt confident of everything but! fapellea brand done years ago.gupon the bridges over the Kast River! pectationa, MI wll knew that ie on the back of your neck. Did vou ritre and then gradually assumes the@the rabbits, Upon the rest of his troupe 7 1 i » them eimply without mechanten.Qand upon the towering structures fom)night metropolis will ou ae A - allow one to adorn its rosy surface upon Variety of a Scotch plaid as ft spreadsg’’ ‘rained stage animale he counted| #0¥ much sleep sie lost. Then 1) my whole tr i Y Fi do tale Bit. of Sraseine- tw spine root of the belléian on Mile Teland/ amt On nave store ee ~~ 4 your helpless person? No, Well, T'velout around the surrounding territory@¥ith certainty, If you have seen the} DOUSMt her a dove. Lvorything sven If you keep the raythm of it y tithe firm: time tve | fairies on theSwiere your kindly Government saw ft] York at long ange, and now twee got to be funny, T suppose, sort of 9° your neck, It was just as good an ugiumd friends who express their juve!‘ Ve ROing Splendidiy when te wad’ RO wrony only dai ci Alnees era. con wane tie to house me, Hut Ie 1a not the bu {0 eet ered hts and be @ part 1 a ached 1 vat the dove was) Striking a e note, Yo he | strong, 7 7 ome A say Hes eokte ‘t6n oe Ghe drop-a-nicke! achine affair, rn lamp on an automobile at night.@for Juliet, the blind girl, in the tatest! anee ne abaT et at ¥ a esas | Mudie iy your soul and let it play the] ‘I was lx months selecting the young pave by Li gabela F forec Jt one tee) ere eee oo ete eee gu, Til go one, Now Tm golng to prove, 20 sold olwasg see me going away Sisclasco preduction, you know that “Al tut and went out and OUmN @ malo melody to the end. A single jarring | women who represent theae fairies, andgfrold and Chencicns unt Mlkes Miepallnes| AS Tiny age et ater 9O000000000000000000000000 000009 0OOO OOOO OOOOOO9O0O4 F iyo Little Devil” han been given motel fur the dove After that lite Int e means that you can't get your et fe ; hg es head Ba ey be | to ove « j in a distinct type, spirituetio andgruled, But the New York of night!| viewer. LOOK UP AND CHEER UP, NEW YORKERS; than ite due, It ts only because Jul lange, according to reassucing reports, 8 « ray to Lode aay eh tuly An for the real chat-Al, that fe the glorious, THE only| “Tammany!—ah, that Tammany,” be- « h cony was 1 Thi 6 fh ossibie tyr you to charm anc ve been an easy mat- THE CROWS ARE FLYING NORTH! pes Bet agit the: baleony habit,| Was one «lad This cata hedsapbitcragiereteettp dda j ‘would “see any mat ‘ wi pe J je wort) tong with-| feel there was hope for ‘A Goud Little give them a Scoten a sy Head, Staten Island, an oversight which ha extenuatine@out @ sacred white elephant. se | Ao Hut,’ added Mr, Belasco, taking! thi is firat and last a fairy play and . New York City, from Weastches-| circumm However. there you arc Rounding up those siage animats| Slapping his knees, Mr. Helascu ex. lous breath, “a production of this| there ix no accent Lele SL fa Me r village and the farthermost|the crows are flying north aver CityQwas ar good fun as being a boy again,’ | claimed: wort ia child's play compared with one | thi ‘a atte i. ne a vry might tole by Teaches of Canarsie, also New York| Hall and the reat of the sghed Mr sco, fresh from a hair-| “I'm renewing not only my youth bu: | Hse “Phe iteturn of Peter Grimm’ or | the Mgtie alot tit tive ee ea my Cityscomen the same cheerful report—|are expected froin Albany, PantedQeut that had taken ten years off his|my ehildhood! While [vo never Years of Discrotion,’ ‘The most dificult | 86 i DIENER i eee mortal. Tie the erows are flying north, ‘That Post, Canandaigua and potnts nort Nife, “1 started early last summer get-|duced a fairy play fust Like this one L one like ‘Peter| Penches of tiat luge tree are painte! sigm of an yy winter, Old settlers on Staten Island, w! imitators of animale to make! put on any number of Christmas panio son id . Ne test | poate: ‘The birds and the cat and the fudet's yard sound Ike @ soological|inimes in San Francisco twenty-oull oe cee teeta ei By | weteo are manipuiated by strings. I ¥ garden. First of ail, 1 trapped George] years ago, and inore than that I hay it wan necessary to make | Orv! ing dope as ly aU could 5 one tmitatios I every nd of thia ino - “f | be doi t el ught him in vaudeville. A Hetle tater! inca, Te 1 * “ Dea hattan tok ce oa | the, play” ‘ 7 i 0d | Must of the animals are in’ thelr | veceived a note from a young lady, yood aad. pa ration. In thetmodern play the nite! ne saat wth tt gard to then ‘thie p 4s Minahan, who was Uving In) PL IDV PUSS LOCH DOO OOOO OOO OO OOOO OOOD | ih penis If (he animale fa, ange nents. and giving parlor entertain. “she vind, spoke of and one da ner imitations of to my deligh:, I No lesx than th ean tell the fe of day by smelling s 6 No More Loafing for , ——— the Animals HAD Dit: HBY are telling @ good 1 Broadway of 1 antes, | well known t aloman, it winged thelr way clam they carry in thelr pocket, «i: Qacard them, She wanted a ‘part’ and heads of Mayo: that the crows haven't flown north i Qin order to get her for her jm el was Y atiee tha N y * cele- of Justice on the City Mall t January since Gov. Suizer was a lit ve her one. She has the jong-cut bration and oo had dined w inf There's no disputing that fact boy, It is propiesied by th rt of Lady Cavendish and at one! very well, vouched for by no less than means not only an easy w nt in the play she remarks, hee! Ags the story , Pa Bridge Squad policemen whose veracity] vontinued advance in the high jeve, ‘Oh, dear, how very Jolly!’ ‘The | strolling along Pitta ave has agt been put to the test before] living, something starting to be d st of the tlme she hops around un-|the Public Library at Forty-second the Aldermanic committee. veloped by the Curran committee as en, singing like a bird. She id won. | etreat, 1s two blocks ‘Yo be sure, the policemen failed to get} @ general leasp breaking and earl, @iorful, 1 t6ld her that T wanted hes |G the mames and addresses of the crowe—! moving on the part of the groundhoxs 3.o study the nightingale, no matter! jook at the oo in New HE animals in the city’s menag-) genteel employments for the city's loa * is from a foot and a half to twopracking just ¢ I feries are going to be put to work|ers in featners and fur. Unies Sam| feet long. He has a kind eye, neverthe-| Director's to earn their salt, Pa oinmis-|Gompers of the Federation Lavor| les, tioug Who has just got Into] Cu uae t jondr Stayer says, Son sipped} emits a loud scream ia behalf of tie} his winter ® and as scratched] of rentl. h , pay for thelr keep by pulling baby carts] Ditmars slate will go through redit this amiable disposition periment, This lee em é ‘and other kindred vehicles nyound, The] One of the moat suce ice work-| ‘The yak witl be made the municipal] tie Ama ‘ ‘ark Commissioner, therefore, tsn't go-| ere in the Bronx Zoo wii! be the hairy | doormat te e entran@ to Director] The patie rator |e alrealy tea ing to stand for any more noldiering at] Thibetan yak. Now the yak ix as short] Hornaday's office with a large “Wels! hin to elim) tiroug se Central Park or the Brox Zoo on intellect as hie sin name, but Natvre| come" pa on his starboard side, Hel welk and under the oiling to re 0 Head Keeper Billy Snyder at the Ar-|has adorned hin with a sort of exag-| will be taught to be a carpet eweeper| nickels, pawn tickets, wold sie eénal and Curator Ditmars in the Bronx) gerated all-wool union sult, which heJafter hours, And his companion piee} and ather househow ¥ at are jungle have put their heads together ra winter and summer with carelens| will he the targest of the bul! elk, who] dropped through casual sweived a schedule of union holrs and| indifference. The nap on his unmention-| wil! work eight hours a dey at hat-|carctess throngs, ‘The snake rina UD WELL IN NEW "York Y 1 a filend folng to the aid o: i know, wi with this we have put this Ing and he still tloket to Mount Vi (ORK. ia 4. "We don't know w This is the @fth time © ¢ ullve the play ding boy actors though they we H. You are the | eround, Just of w York, Hvery one of you tm ar » porters leading rtant lithe star, Remember that! Guay york! @an the Venezuela terror, Do aley out oo And not ane of taem has forgery LQ L have stood at the window of my|know your Tammany, bulluing. Ee ue daertaa | Pee need Sila Island room with my face aguinet|but had a Tammany rouble?” he inqut the raboite by ing them a fal the Ml for hours after the darkness |I'd but had a Murphy * Dox wood breakfast Nght luncheon andQhas fallen upon the city and looked |Then, oh, then Gen, ir," replied o the then nothing until dinner at the end of@and looked until T seemed dazed. As|ah, he would still be at to do|! nd et. ‘This explains their ex-@ine darkness would fall, the lights] And with a deep a! lent work at the climax of that act en they ‘play up’ to lettuce and cab- |bage, Mut the boys mean imomt of all to me, This play has made me feel lke & Iboy again.” Zoo, and the L speed and would begin to twinkle forth, first a few in this butkiing, then more tn that. Finally with a grand burst a miilion little Lghts would shoot forth to stud Bird Tells Why obvious that man out of the butli insiste on buying a ernon."* without a country, Yorker, let It be kn: view was at an end. ooo: Ss re ” aeneral com course, it's perfect 4 rm the s trang: |Ditmars says. the rat akes will tablished as [Commissioner Stover. tutor ns ” the Bronk | Miss Murphy, Central Park's modest] ente 1 the children’s rest room; [in time ude to extant! a Galapagos |hippopotamus, ie cast by Billy Snyder} that is no startling thought; also that . service fram one {for the part of an Arsenal parcel post} the por eM and up near the ‘ vis to another, mi. From § o'elo cash re i Ulting reck restau. | will now in the R00 Sat night she w rant. (You pay your check and take 1 the x e baggage room ja quill on the way outs But Commis. thelr ‘turns’ f stage ta’ trunks are ke r Stover and his park 200 men Vhonx aninal tenders will were=with er | will have to work some to whip the {fish will constitute w is 10 up a pay-as \played, You pat the Kages in the! flying squirrels into an aerial rural de- |corpe. n each of the tortoises and lsmile—guaranteed that * 1 take any-| livery corps and it's an even bet that] It was the lyre bird turn ton *e thing except a enfe or @ grafting po-| the sea cow wil! be a fallure as @ milk|The Evening World The Interborough wlll be beaten a city |iceman's allbt station, jatory entire five foot frame the little man “Wal 4 On, that I had tn Venesuela! If at my right band! Cipriano would~ the Presidente!” bh that chook his the typical New mn that the tnter- However, everything Is optimism with He belleves that the boa constrictors may do earnest work as swings in the child- ren’s playground, The laughing hyenas be set aside for the use of the Vaudeville artists who want to try out the hyenas are sturdy brutes, And the sandpiper and the drum @ Gfe and drum herself that bave this interesting