The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1913, Page 23

‘lae ‘*S’Matter, Pop nw / - jMuch oF er 1 | ————— \T “DONS Te UNCLE S1,! Do You < “Oh, I Say!” French Farce Set to Music. BY CHARLES DARNTON. |. in thease enterprising times, that some one hasn't advertised the ) Not to say intimate, French farce @@ three acta and bath. To be . h is a luxury tn these little Palais Royal affairs, are brought over and made over, why stop at open plumbing? Veourse, are av common as doors. By was) of novelty Inst night the plece at the Casino had a bathroom, helped to explain its exelamatory title, “Oh, 1 Say" for there really wasn't thing else to excl about, When the plot didn't know which way to turn there was the bathroom, It opened right off the centre of the stage eo that no ome could possibly misa it. The bedrooms opened right and left, in strict ac- cordance with the architectural plan of Frenoh fa I've o wondered whether an author has ever built « se contraptions without first con- qulting an archite:t. Everything el without saying, is as simple as | drawing @ contract. ‘Thera l« alwaye aj bride who ix too young to know that the bridegroom !s hampered by his past on the wedding journey, because of an old entanglement, and ao tnevitabdly | there ts the charmer whose taste in flowera han not led her to be extraves santly fond of orange blossoms, | ‘The only change in this arrangement at the Casino was found in the bath- room. This Was eo new that the old Joke about waiting till Saturday night to indy in the luxury it offered brought forth murmu:m of surprise. That this ancient wheese had encaped drowning aremed unbelievable, There May have been @ acarcity of running} water, but there certainly was plenty of plot. “Oh, I Say!" proved to be French farce eet to music like another “Ad only tn this case the musie was American The aire by Jerome D. Kern wer tuseful, though not strikingly orleinal. | A tango number was the liveliest of the lot and gave spirit to @ perform: ance lacking in this quailty at other) Bedroome, of Alice Yorke as Suzette. times. Aci the music was pleasing, | Cecil Cunningham as Sidome de not distin tive. Clara Palmer made the | Mornay. most of it by putting dash into both her | @aging and her «lan ington Clark danced very well with her and also | with Lois Josephine. thon, eang very well, fm etrength, That ce Yorke, grown fo plump a to defy recogni: | thoumh her voice has lost tf sweetness what it has gained | old beauty, Mies Cecil Cunningham, gave her excellent votes much range that it occas shit the ceiling In a way to crack the plaster, but altogether she was stunning and commercially fascinating an the calculating actress who didn't care how much it cost an admirer for her to cancel a per- formance. As Her generous patron, Walter Jones, had very) hard work trying to get any fun out of the overworked plot, but he and Joseph W. Herbert did finelly manage to be amusing in a duel with moving ploture privileges and a turkey-trotting accompaniment. As the bridegroom Charles Menkins gave no humor and little votca to the proceedings, Joseph Phillips was “best man” by all odds in the singing contem! Jeffreys Lewin figured largely and excitably as } the mother-in-law of the bridegroom who was distressed to find that a mistake ‘had led him to start his honev gay ac flat, A French | farce has a way of changing # honeymoon tito a wall atch. And in this fmatance the pride sleepy’ She said so time and again tn her simple w: mi a in the Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers consider my salary sufficient, W dvise us to do?” | vou and the girl are both over not do you Sine Their Parents. ] v sable age and since vou have known each} a sitiod ther au jouw 7 think you are com- husband and wife) petent to decide your marriage for fo live wth the) yourselves, B | walk abroad, | 9 O+| Yes! THey |} Selunvee jure |[OH HH) | Atwavs Dito OuR [Teint WEwnig || OH . Ww aa = eTAWe ITOUTAN| |) UNCLE 5 EM WHeRe ! TBAT | | Drown Loe aaa i" wt ¢ Wut RAISED Me =< AS sac RTIN Ed LINDFOLDED, } wris' ts Bvening Woiid Datriy at en ee oo 2) \ ! bound together, ) )\ Hallowe’en and Fate } neither knowing who the other is, a man and a maid walk into the garden to pluck, each, a plant of kale. parents of eithe <i ometines cue} 2Ae Card Player. tee arents of th A.M writes: "To have recently bee young man urge | od ged to a young man such a me je {1 find that he plave cards a ewuse they not {a week, 1 very much opposed to fron wish to lo sand we have had many dixputes, | Mus hir |for he contends that he neads the rec- | find wages reation What Todo in thie /™, tee Male tie not te ’ parents w an is acting within hla rights, | Rote ‘ ytve wite t You must decide hetween him and your | ite i vik that they may not be d principles he of the society of their da _—_ He nothing Lomake to win his man frionds t he cares What advances affection Does this ehow that ne las@ ho more affection for met" Walt and see, He may have been | or to write, can yes, or his letters may have miscarried and I understand she has gone West salary and both| Am I wrong in f nywelf think we should| wes for the best But her parents do I do not believe that you are A ingara ling that the ‘break’ “¢ my fiancee and ry at onc oy "Wut | heads down and th ground, Jet them | stead of ex; and. “L myself am exceedingly sorry that 1 am kept in town by urgent private at- faire and by eome comptic It will foretell their future, is a UNG CHAPTERS My 4 the crow! yad and fates are revealed: & Co. that you et understood. Lupin's let Tt vo y ced in bra ae 5 | mos paeaing: ie Try t 1 Ho writes or loved ariginime thes will'nes ine, 6 ung lady, b ally made He iv there, bewildercd, ys atments with me and then broke loss, seeking for (ne an ite wer om, giving no excuse. Now, T have! Whom he has killed, look too wir of twonty-two,| net heard from her for a long time @hd Waiting for then, & » known for five vears, I | to Ko 4y and quite unable whatever th otives, writer wn seventeen and] - a ‘ gona make stale. received much attention from| CHAPTER VII, ‘The firat year of Y men of my own age. Put | am! Contpied. Agtermines its vitimaie s f then) and 1 would jike to be) A Forest Tragedy. ure, The situation 's or acquainted with mens | po grcnal Sparen: Can you advise me ho a ii beg PE ae ciently Winiout the preve ler ‘ar u advise me how 66 hee er Aning any one some of the latter conthiued Have you not some older gir) friend nlest Wa for them to who could Introduce to you men of her pose, to have d rarer rar arene woqiulr atiswer your objec : Data nilent — to make straight for the ma at Be ! writes: "1 am in ‘ove with let the Kentiemen of the pc pn, and though he has been | Sedermerie themselves m: f town, we corresponded until foap|£0F the mark. Let them take flrearins fi resol a y hen plore the fores viites: La weeks ago. T have not heard from him| ket, them explore the fares! @ld and have been in love tn all that thre, although he promised] trom the turi m to under ed matters For five hundred yoars this has been the opening ceremony of Hallowe'en, the night when witches, jelves, banshees from the vasty deeps, goblins and devils, imps and fairies Magic The Confessions of Arsene Lupin therefore, ds ins the ‘ir frie ne to be, Kentlemen of 4 thelr sho nid ne to this iucubration. Hut four of the local country gents # and went «ivoting, with ward, as though Australia for mar tlne they had not v they wrote to the direct din dAcciimatat with whom the Were in the habit rredponding. that they were bringing with them a cus Is creature, of an ¢ jes of which it was diff whether it was a man or a moni Neourding to M Bragoft wo a This curious, intelligent and ovs vant animal acted as its owner'a vant on their property In Australia and to clean thelr motor car and even hiagazince, In half y w the pots, ve iridgay, Yes THATS 17, L WHY DIDNT ¢ A a amar iunines, ¢ By Eleanor Schorer | | i \ Ine yah ci bint Quite naturally Bob clasps the hand whose wrist fs fast bound to his. Whose hand ts it? Is ft the hand of blond-halred Bess or the girl with deep black eyes? Somehow the handkerchtefs sip out of place from over their eyes. Together the man and niaid kneel before the kale patch and! pluck, not kale-—kisses! ! Kismet! { of Fiction’s Thief anked ts fr Where ied w was now hints #8 pled by A win, all the elements of the trake kaown ? h , m, the culprit was in the ands of the law. You ean see him at the Jariin dA Ftare.” Ie te, in w a} \ \ ® “8 8 CHAPTER V1, ee " Lupin’s Marriage. of hia cage. Lupin wan ma LU PLN mare 1Ver tat inte 1 4 aot ' ‘ 1 mh, ree ad ‘ And ¢ ' ° ° as ' i ‘ " mstar t « the ride war ue oes easy enough to find.” Joan Dna ve 9 could Arsene Lupin took my arm and, walks not finish re tations whica ing away with me, said: held “When did you guesn it, yourself?” anger, his long. “On eeading your letter,” 1 contessed. tromora: ® hand, | Jean body shaking with ' October 38 Latest, Best Adventures 3 1, 1915 PRECEPTS, NOT PRACTICE, BROUGHT AN EXTRA $2. 1 entered newspaperdom as report. er for ane fornia town M aims on al dver(eers, One nah w youths [went t Salvation Aray ing. Hoye and young nisbenaved and were banished ¢ bie hall do went to the office wud prepared @ eemt-edl- torta) nrticle telling about the snot. alent sie regret that ser- ‘The editor priated the article, com- plnented me for writing it and hy weeks stipe te $13. ext day the Salvation Army eap- tain culled to thank the editor for rebuking the unruly element that had disturbed the meeting. The elt tor sad Jon't thank mo, thank the young man who wrote the ertl- ol pointing to me, “Why, that ts the fellow who made moat of the oe" wuld the captain, But I got the raine EDWARD B, LAUNHART. No. 111 Manhatuan street, New York ity WON BY A “COMEBACK” TO BOSS'S JOKE. One pay night the boae passed my ealary, ® fivestoline bill, to ame through the pay window, I did not cateh tt quickly enough, and tt flute tered to the floor, ‘The boas ex- lain “Microbes will et on your money, Frank!’ Here ts my chance y, | thought, and blurted outt ta so amall, bows, T don't think Will get on very well with 10" after second thought, T expect~ ~1 for my boldness, But boss chuckled, and [ felt re- od ‘The next Saturday night he as he paid me The microbes will have a little larger fleld here- af! no don't drop it." ‘The boss hat come through with another “hoan PRANK V. SULLIVAN, 2 Fairmount avenye, Jersey City. BORROWED FROM EMPLOYER TILL RAISE CAME. My brother gave me a position in his factory taking care of the stook. 1 was to rocetve $7 a week, Finding it was tmpoasthle to get along on th'e oalar 1 went to my brother each waek for several weeks and borrowed ® from him until he realized I wasn't eiving enough and raised me the Ba week HARRY SCHISTACK, No. #8 Fox street, Bronx |“FIRST RA HIS FIRST RAISE. Tast Thursday 1 was in the office at noon, reading The Evering World. A former employer of mine, an auc- Uoneer, came in. “What are you reading, Herbert™’ he asked. t showed him ths “first raise” stories “Going to join the contest?” he @eked. 1 replied in the negative, ay- ing Wat I had never received a raise. Presently my present employer came in, The auctionser whispered to him, then turning to me said: “Woll, Hor- bert, 1 guess you can join the con- test now.” @eeing my look of aston- iehment, he explained that he hed Just arranged to take me back in his employ and ete figure which certain- ly was @ big advance on my former salary. HOORBERT SEGAL. No, 30 Bast Fourteenth street. THI® ERRAND BOY PLAYED SLEUTH, ~ 1 was an errand boy for an engray- (ng ho! | | and fad an eepiring ove | on the art department, 99 1 could ar well, On® morning the boss breathlessly told me to find out the destination of the head artist, who had just gone out. He handed me a $10 bill for expenses, My man boasded acar, I boarded It. 1 followed hi to the Pennsyivania Terminal and’ eaw him buy a ticks:. How waa l ‘v know where it was for? toned tho Ucket agent but was told to mind my business. In desperation 1 decided to board the train without @ ticket and pay the conduster my fare, Still I did not know where the train was going and T did not want to ask. 1 settled with the condacter I ques- and we soon reached Philadelphia, I followed my man to an address and rhe artist was arrested for forgery. BAUL KESSLDR. No. 14 Lewis street, New Yerty City: By Mary Roberts Rinchart (Author of “Seven Deys.”) (Wi) Ddegin in The Bvening World, Monday, Mov. 10, Mary Roberts Binebart is America’s woman humorist. And “Where There's 0 greatest Will" ts the funniest story she hae written. Don't forget the date of ite firet instalment’s appearance in Fhe Zveaing Worlé—Monday, Mi 1a Genius “ friends hy talk of 1 you may to that dastardly What would your t, if ake is wince 9 Nike her ke him oaKe, and ands anwilar atutt and 1 the nome ainst flushed with er father's w f which al as whe love momine whi e wast mn, not his in tostanding ist be meant for @ to which we need pay no Saraeau has about as it whould not could find out the name drei who has dared’ * © At that gyment, Myacintha the be. ir on, of the ecoun- vw By Maurice Leblanc were tn duc was wan Still fuming, nd growled ‘The Mvening World will award « prise Of G85 for the best true acconat (S88, | Words or lees) of “Mow f Got My First Raise.” " CONTEST WAS he took down t! Yew. t's the Due ye speak ng. wologize to monsieur » Mile. Ange It's my "Your secretary?” “You, the invitations were only a rough draft which [ t to submis to you (nfortunately my secretary thoughy’ ¢ 8 © Hat, monsieur, who are ne don't you y of your “Arsene Lupls The duke drop ato in His face was livid N You see, hoax. Hut the duke's rage broke out afresh he bewan to s arms T shat go to the W can't be allowed to make a he land dt must Hyactntie entered the room He brought two visiting cards: ‘ * Lepetit? 1 both jour They wo ek to Monsieur le duc with regard to * * * the mar- riage eee “Turn thom out!" exclaimed the dux “Kick tham out! And teil the por ir to anit soum of iat ort to my hous, ry in future.” {To Be Continied) os wak up and down, police! © © © The * 9 If there's be again, know them, monsieur