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a coat VO@Zanad Theve’s Only One Place Where an Actor Can Have a Merry Christ- mas and That's at Home—There’s Noth- ing Very Joyous About Life on the Road, Espe- cially if You Get a Frozen Ear for a Christ- mas Present on Your Way to the Depot— Some Stories From Cold Storage. By Charles Parnton. ON’T imagine, if you should happen to find him in the next orchestra chair to | BROADWAY MANAGERS IN CARICATURE ‘ yours, that George M. wall han ien't playing this w: As be; puts it, he is playing with the kids. | There are two at home and one at) schoo! on the other side of the water. During the past few days their proud father has produced in bis toy thea- tre on Central Park West so many plays with Santa Claus as the hero that the seven keys to his dime sav- ing bank have been in constant use, and in each instance the enthu- Glastic audience you see in the pic- ture here has voted the production ®@ marvellous success. “But I'll have to write another play, thie one for foreign preduction, in @ great hurry, I can see that,” he an- nounced, “If you don't belleve it, listen | to thie from Georgette.” He whipped a letter from hia pocket and read: | “We play plays here, I just came te school the day before the girls producing ‘Pinkie and the Fairies,’ und they played It very well, They are all after me to write so I suppose I have to get to I was going to ask you if you would write me a iittie sketch, one € with @ lot a love in it, somethini @weet and nice not too long that would last a hour or two. There ‘s fo hurry about it, but do try and gemmence as soon as you can,” | Mke that,” he laughed, ” ‘no hurry about it, but commence as soon as you ’ That's an order for a play that t be delayed. In another letter te, a year or £0 ago, told me of | having met Caruso and urged me to! look him up over here, “If you don't Know him pers /oshe added, “he Mts at tic K backer’ Wids ate funnler than a) tiene | covid write and Tm having so fun up at the howse this week (nat I'm sorry when We bedtime for the youngsters, "$m actor's nm the road ts THE EVENING WORLD SATURDAY, HARRISON GREY FISKE utre had Plunation, T come ed out ina we ‘A friend of yo! and tn came the Walsh, mani hake us fl} my friend nawer, for Iilanche {1 was afrad furious and try to you would Phe Ham night the car on t i bi hs ia ped ys Oo na om ald to one of t to demand an ex- ak voice, ju ad I explained er would be the date, assured He told me ng truck PARR pAGNES COHAN MAS GEO COHAW HELEN FRAVCES COHA About as Joyous as the sound of those sleighbeils in ‘The Belle’ that Irving an actor ne luck may knows when his There san hard) pi actot: | khiy well b | | Now, used to play, Sitting on a high atool at| Playwright now on the top wave of] steal « rid 1 end of @ railroad lunch counter and biting tnto| Prosyrrity in this town who made uw when you look for a ham sandwich thd has been made | his mind to commit suicide one Chriat-)of a theatre by machinery isn't the sort of Christ-|™mos might in Chicago. As a matter of}he is over at one of hig movin mas dinner to fill an actor with good | fact. he ju off the Ctark street | ious This Information was followed cheer, or much of anything eo far as| bridge, thin to end his troubles in|in town with, ‘But he'll be around that goes. Of course there is the hotel | the river. But the river was frozen ao} to bd you Kowl-by on with a turkey that has died hard, but | #0lldly that he succeeded only in hortin n you blame an aotor for When you get up from the tavie you| his leg, and tie funny part of it was|h spend Cheiatinas with his fame don't give three cheers. Back in the| (Hat as soon as he lized he was hurt | iy? old daye when I wan doing the ‘tanks: | He hustled off to a doctor ay fast ax th -- will) be: Lumeden Hare, @helley Hull, we uscd to get together after the show | “old go.” a we Nordea: MIAN Thomas TAY Ae hie | on Christmas night end try to jolly shia tale, that would seem stranger | ch Sti ‘i tt Ye, fam: Han Kingsbury and Mildred Orie: up on delicatessen and perhaps a glass| Still If you knew the name of the] the mtn te re ee : of beer, everybody paying hie bit ana| Wouldbe wan washed down | sry ot In'Greaiee See | Mimi Aguaita, the siciilan heed whe aaa ae thinking how far he would have to walk| With a second cup of coffee, after] sins tan the grat dm i laatieat ota | appeared at tho Brosdway Theatre Ave “Pape's Cold Compound” which Mr. Cohan laughed over more of | ied at the Manhattan Vcore Ms years ago, comes to the Comedy Theatre to get to the depot in the morning. s Fe orl whe tall, ay taelt : ‘4 igh nO k reli Dor My ‘Christmas present one wear wag g {hie own experiences—stories trom cold] "ii ptt ut "mimnt bon, dre torerh fot heat | Quy Men ng, Dees mm atne will be gives quick relief— Don’t , ’ atarax, from” the little peoule sin ther e's “‘Balome.”* is plax wi! 1° fronen ear, Twas with Gua Willama| Sse Mirstellore what's a Lie Riekt” WRG | out te. mun gertycavelrainuien and wil be stay stuifed-up! then and we were playing ‘April Fool,'| “Never sha ta hiristmag | fea teal ‘a + ise" pure to" kot. To Bese, the anowdrifts ™ now. Only this week I heard of a man-| theatre” A man came out of wre and the goud words for every one that follows! yas the stage and its fortunes—or misfor-| couldn't leave iny 7 We Mepublic. ‘Theatre, tunes. ‘no car then, Finally there was a] ductiina iy beild Helage, “The best of it ts," he reflected, “shat ka: and, fearing the manager of the $3 he plore rm wil’ be walls area 1 was cripyied with rhou he Wasn't gular actor would 4 Wagon. the manager nthe road you are told] iq ure 1 pi aturday night.’ rampietion Joug. the home, of i be surue over ‘om ‘Jin his old part of Nicholas Van Alstyne,| The stock company at the Harlem Douglas Fairbanks as Bertie, Amelia House will put on “The Man Who Wingham as Mra, Opdyke and Patric a re 1913. Begs wn FRAZER ~A Reo KLAW New Flays for Coming Week | “The New Henrietta’’—Frances Starr in “‘The Secret’’—‘‘We Are Seven’’—Billie Burke in “The Land of Promise’’— Mimi Aguglia in “‘Salome”’—“Ib and Little Christina.’ HEATRICAL activities will be re- Count” will be transferred to the Play- | newed with @ rush of new produc: | hour Richard Bennett returns to the Grand Opera House with “Damaged Good “The Lure” will be seen at the West End Theatre. tions for Christmas week On Monday night “The New Hene rietta” will be offered at the Knicker bvocker Theatre, with Willtem H. Crane Collinge as Agnes, Bronson Howard's amous comedy of atock exchange oper- ations has been brought up to date by Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes, The play was originally produced by Re and Crane at the Union Square Theatre on Sept. 2%, 1887 see Frances Starr comes to the Belasco Theatre on Tuesday evening In “The Secret,” Henri Bernstein's latest drama, The Olympic wili have the Fay Foster Burlesquers, VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, Bert Williams will head the bill the Palace Theatre, whore othera will be Charles Grapewin in a new sketeh, Odiva and het sea Hons, Princ An Gabrielle Jannelot Miss Starr will de-| Kim, Chinese tenor, Gertrude Vicon plet @ type of woman who, w.thout any | pit and motive, brings unhappiness to ® house- | Tempent. ee hold. She Im merely jealous of the hap-] Eva Tanguay and her company will piness of others and proceeds to work | remain at the Forty-fourth Street Music trouble in every direction, The aupport- | Hall, ing company will include Hasll GUl,| Hammeratémn's will have Dainty Marie, Robert Warwick, Frank Reicher, Mar-| Belle Story, the Avon Comedy Four, Kuerite Lesile, Harriet Otle Dellenbaugh, | Ray Cox in songs, Bob Dalley in a new John P. Brown and Beatrice Reinhardt. | sketch, Wil! Fox, pianist, and others, eee Liana Carrera, Anna Held's daughter, comes to the Colonial. Others will Claude Gillingwater in ‘Wives of the Rich," the Avon Comedy Four and Ar- “We Are Seven,” a whimsical farce by Kleanor Gates, begins an engagement at Maxine Elliott's Theatre on Wednés day night. The chief character {|thur Deagon. Diaatha Kerr, a young sociological etu-; Amelia Stone and Armand Kalles will dont, who has absorbed eugenic theories | be the headliners at the Alhambra. The | to the extent of having made all pians|Di:I will aleo include Robert Haines in for her future family, She has decided] ‘The ‘Man in the Dark,” Clark and to have none but a one hundred per| Verdi, comedians, and Van and Schenck, cent, father for her children. Diantha’s | singers, frequent visite to the east side in] Keith's Union Square Theatre sin soarch of this material determine her| have Mae Melville and Robert Hi Aunt to secure for ber & hired escort.| Volant and his fying plano, Parille and who, Diantha insists, must be deaf and|Frobeto in operatic selections, and dumb. Peter Avery manages to get the | others, position, and doesn't find his voice until] At Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre he Is landed in a police station, Then| Will be Adele Ritchie, Clark and Ham- Diantha finds “the father of her seven.” | liton, Robert L. Daley, Ralph Hers, and In the cast will be Hesse Barriscale, | “The Willow Pattern Plate,” @ Chinese Jane Peyton, Russ Whytal | Musical fantasy. “The House That Jack m Raymond, Built" will be the feature at the Twenty- ee third street Theatre, Foy and Clark Mins Billie Burke will be brought to| Wii head tl the Fifty-etghth | the Lyceum Theatre on Christmas night | Street Theatre, “The Bunshine Girlie" in “The Land of Promise," a serious | Wil be the main attraction at the One play by W. 8. Maugham. Canad is|Mundred and Tweny-fitth Street The- the land of promise. Norah Marsh, a| “tre. young Englishwoman, has earned her | BRONX THEATR 28. living as 4 companion to an old lady. xcume Me" will be the attrention at Her employer dies, leaving Norah noth- | the Royal Theatre. Ing. it happens, the girl nasa brother| ‘Mutt and Jef’ will be seen at the nada, a farmer, near Manitoba. | Bronx Opera Hours, With no prospects she goes out to join] Miner's Theatre will have Al. Reeves's her brother and his wife on their wheat | “Bis Beauty Show.” farm. Bhe finds herself tn conflict with | Tue bill at the Bronx Theatre will in- titude, and in the end the 1 fulfie {te promise, Among others In the cast “IRESIYOL WILL clude “The Trained Nurses,” the Usse-| ema, acrobats; Jim Diamond ané &/uil Brennan, Harry Tate's “Motoring, Ray Conlin, ventriloquist, and Kita Gould, IN BROOKLYN. “The American Beauties” wil! be the attraction at the Empire. MAYOR-ELECT GUEST OF: CLASSMATES AT THEATRE Colunibla Graduates Give Mr.) Mitchel a Dinner Later at the Hotel Astor. John Purroy Mitch fellow etudents at Columbia University who with him tn the class of 1% Mayor-elect a theat: last night to see “The Madcap Duch- en After the performance of the operetta they went to the Hotel Astor, where Mr. Mitchel was thele guest a inner. There were about forty in the theatre Party—-enough to fill eight boxes. When the theatr early in the week who the distinguished guest was to be, plane were made to decorate the boxes and otherwise cele- brate the occasion. But Mr, Mitohel objected to the musical entertainme: {te usual form and the auditerium was loft ae STOP THAT ITCH es Instant Relief and Quickly Cc Away Skin Eruptions. No m. ter how tong you have been tortured and disfigui by itching, burning, raw or acaly skin humors, ‘a little of that soothing, an- i iaptle | Resinol Ointment on the sores reg the suffering stops right there! Heali ere that very minute, and your eta well so quickly you fee! hamed the money you threw away on useless, tedious treatments. Wherever drugs are sold, you can be just as sure of finding Resinol Oint- nent as court-plaster or a tooth! ib. ‘This is because doctors h it so regularly for the years that every druggist ki must keep it constantly in stock. When you ask for Resinol Ointment bm ure you get the genuine, and not »..nething that merely looks or smells jo it. inol Ointment (50c. and 00), is most effective for healing sorea, boils, wounds and piles. For free trial of Resinol Ointment and « ery, cake of Resinol Soap, write $2-R, N Md. given before “The Marriage Game.” . . or ANN SWINBURNE mas. HAE ARE A SETES, ft THe Aus Misleadin; witicrsg MR. oe ay RRICK "tine br FANNIEWARD an Po The rE CAFE te Tey ole my sie goa, We weren't fooling very many people, ie i erie y he vowed OL want You can end grippe and break u ane Ween NSARM CL SR OR in Anaconda, Mone. NOTES OF THE THEATRES, : The Ld Shani lien Hata tei asqvere cold either in head, chest, body kuew the worst was apt to happen any| pei [0 bus a tls bre Mcgee ‘ ze new short play, "Ib and Little Chris Cold Campana ip a fore! y. an you see us playing ‘ADF! wit ¢ haw) At the opere houas to pets Cie tina,” written by Capt. Basil Hood of | three doses are taken. Fool’ in sero weather? Well, I got i) nignet! 1 told him I Was, and usked hi Kegan Tis Helen "theatre, | *8@ Britiwn Army. It ts an allegory | It promptly opens clogged-up mos- in the ear on that freesing walk tothe! ii, what a lis. thovani Hfiorm of the ovaandeation, all pruminent in| telling the life and love atory of a» man|trils and air passages in the head, depot im Dayton, but we were WWcky| veg pave. , an ba-tiao, aitendal te performance last} and woman, in three svenes. The prin-| stops nasty discharge OF nose running, we didn't have to keep right on waik-| fui inturmed. ne. "Yaa TAME Bis "aeay ce muse A atm Fclyat parta will be played by Holurook {relieves sick headache, dulness, fever- ing when we got to the depot, It waa! riained, ‘everyiudy knows and were Jntralucad to the members | Blinn and Joyce Fair ishness, sore throat, sneesing, soreness Uke Charle Case's story of the man- Four Cohans aln't with this show and ® s and atiffness, ager who always took him for @ Walk) poikg here won't Ko to see Mi, Theinas A. Wiee haw been engaged for the | Forbes-Robertson, at the Shubert The Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing in the morning—the story, you know.| On, what hou at Parag i yy |atre, will appear in "Othello" on Mon- {and snuffline ~ your throbbiag that breaks off with, ‘And when we ®t) cit wasn't any fire In the a day and Saturday nights, in “The Mer- | head—noth? the world to the next town’ ""—— theatre. [ can see my now chant of Venice” on Tuesday night, in]/such prompt relief as ‘Pape’ Mr. Cohan stirred his midnight ¢of-) piaying her part with her hands in a Hamlet” at reduced prices on Wetnes- | Compound,’ which costs only | fee aa though it were old memortes,| muff, Father wore a tufler and an day afternoon, in "The Passing of the, at any drug store, It acts without put a hand to the car that W@s @ overcoat ull through the performance, fw Ugiaa Aolua | Third Floor Back" and “The Bacra- assistance, tastes nice, and causes no “frout" in Dayton, and then went on: | ang 1 danced my coat collar Some en etieecle a] ment of Judas” on Wednesday night |inconvenience. Be eure you get the “No, there's only one place where you turned up. At town the stage and Saturday afternoon, in “Mice and | genuine, can have @ merry Christmas, and that's ex found the theatre locked when on of moving pictures, show: | Men" on ‘Nhursday night and in “Tho at home. I've knocked off this week juat Woup in front a truck in the reign of Queen Light That Fatied” on Friday night to get what I couldn't get ifI were on the! joad of scenery. Af s the door SI ee ee eles et ie NIM o 9 8 ies Video 7 road And while I have nothing tocom- he stood in the 2 the street a: lM. temustow ei iter Elsie Ferguson in ‘The Btrange | aah aps ‘# *|Dec. 27 plain of, it's pretty tough out there just) and yelled, ‘Who's got the key to this f th anniverary of the | Woman" moves to the Gulety Theatre | on Monday nieht, and “The Things That YSAY | ager who had called in three com ind anaweredi I have, fT ieg ot My Heart" jes, and this means that two hu replied the *iage manager, A aunenec a tae Jand fifty people have been thrown out! take in the scenery. We p ive the four hundred ond , yg eee Program teviitae cf work, I'm afraid there are a great yight, you know.’ ‘Oh, do nae eriuruance uf the comedy, eitice Management many actors who won't find thi a very marked the ma We useeinan mel vo fram the Chueh of the Re metry Christmas, Twenty-eight road! thought it Was to-morrow night your| (eM, ‘scar at much verformance hott’ weak at [shone come ia, at the end of thie week, | troupe was due’ I concluded that if “Davil | ert” wich ia Ws be prea Ia ve been tol | the manager of the theatre didn't know the Crew eit Theatre, Brook no, this revives George M. Cohan's aympathy for the| wnen we were to play we could haritly | te, eior but Uy Winuiep Ame for the ong. progress better if given people of the stage 1 so unmistakably | expect the town generally to be greatly | igen Winant bas been each day a few drops of <i genuine am js open-handedness so! interested in our Ing. and Our axe| egeasne of 1 i @ Avacle, w RAND Kencrally known that I'm fot golng to! perience. there’ determined ane | tear rile wiv '| Scott's Emulsion CENTRAL PALace iy anything al ne ne Une tort a ft! ¢ mn wen ng ate: In Ly a 1 Expectant and nursing LAST DAY. ADMISSION S0c heatt. wo meet a man who haw enly| asked for me when the train 4 ‘ " mothers gather strength ‘ORLD,* In Two Hours’ and rich blood from its concentrated nourishment. a4 |- i ti iets nchatd W Wi eth ner ki are Wagner fas, 218 ahr ie en “RENE HO * Ent 1 Me mar evasion | oe a ae any pW Raa 2.18 | Girls of the Gay White Way MbhDEL wercts a HEN AY Ww. SAVAGES Mra, J. Wentervett of Paterana, ¥. J. wae ot, ut tell yo pour Radiway'e Renty eat beet remedy ior pain thet there te market vo-day, children aod it hae saved me many 0 dectere For sore throat, It ta king over that, My Utde atrt hee soenined her ankle and te around fine without any other doctor thaw way's Heady Weltef,” A Household Remedy bl? MADWAY'S READY NEL PLAYHOUSE #1 x THE FAMILY" kas Last 2 Ties COMEDY “V7 83 Ska 8S THE EManithaae rt BRONX © with LEO DITRICWRTEIN, ai vue Pet | WHITE "SUE None Under 16 Years Admitted, BATHE, |3 Tine To. PARK Bye ie] Lie me sor TAR} 4 THE Taienican BEA Se rete Bagh ("SY WORLD WANTS rnpay wer dways eady Reliet 1 have « large femily of qual PBOARD henry "Picture Waite E SLAVE TR Monday,

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