The evening world. Newspaper, October 1, 1914, Page 20

Jest A MINUTE Mister VAN DELL Iv IN 4 Meh} Fix OOEY and AXEL FL By Vic Nouv 40oonw ALL RIGHT To ME! (se WEA CLAAR “WD YOU AxeL? You'R A VERY SICK SOLDER , LYING ON “THE DESERTED BATTLE FIELD . see? ALONG COMES “TH MEDICINE DOS AND YOU “TAKE Some GQuINING CUT OF THe OASe. (TS IN AUT WHITE Box! ABOUT PLAYS -& AND BY BIDE Dillingham isn’t overlooking of anything in arranging for the juction of his next musical piece, ch You~ Step.” Yesterday Frank y droppéd in at the Dillingham to pass the time of da; a he went out he left behind his ph on a “Watch Your Step” Gee@petract. It had been reported that | thd comedian had been signed up by Ziegteld jr. for a principal role in Pm Winter Revue that manager is plan- It had also been sald that deville might claim him again. His yesterday necessarily ends all | these reports, it does. There are to be no stars in “Watch four Step"—that is, so far as the bill- goes. The cast will include the Elizabeth Murray, T. Roy Elizabeth Brice and Charles , Frank ‘Tinney and several still Lo be captured. Harry B, Smith bas written the of the now piece and the music lyrica are by Irving Berlin, bet- wh on Broadway as the man ® made the German metropolis it ie Mr. Berlin's tret full @. INTER GARDEN OPENS OCT. 10. i he opening of te new Winter ae Mnusical production, “Danc- Around,” with Ai Jolwon, will Saturday evening, Oct. 10, house Will be dark all next week. doison Will be seca in white face the first time on Broadway, al- he will put on the burnt cork well-known role of Gus. Veias RUSSELL HAS A PLAY. Russell has returned to New from ber country home at * Harbor, M prepared. to nA tle once more w ihe problem the stage. Miss Russell new play in wnich she will be this winter. Lust season she dat Buelah Jay's Litte The- we in Philadelphia, in- repertoi: the management of Lawren: ft. She became very popul there and, while the Little The- fan't available for her now, it | been sugKesiea that she piny mn of repertoire in another iyhia house. This plan has ped, it seems. it has allied himself with te that are to produce the Hurriet Ford and Har- J nw, ig the man in TO LEAVE. ther of thie tte PLAYERS DUDLEY volume of poetry, “Why I Left the Stage Go On the mm, or O! has decided to take anoth dip into the newsphper professio: ®he will do the dipping in Cleveland. “MISS DAISY” TO GO WEST. An announcement from the Shu- bert offices says that “Miss Daisy” will term! e its engagement at the Lyric Theatre Saturday night and will go immediately to Chicago to begin a run there. e Lyric will be dark for the first three nights of next week, opening Wednesday evening with the new play, “Evidenc prologue and four acts, by J, and L, de Rocher Maepherson. C. Aubrey Smith, leading man last season for |t Maude Adams, will head the cast. PLAYWRIGHTS NEARING NEW YORK. Henry Arthur Jones and Charles Klein are expected to reach New York from Europe to-day or to-morrow. Mr. Jones is coming to supervise the rehearsals of his new play, in which Margaret Ilington wtll appear, Mr. Klein is making the trip to see his play, “The Money~Makers,” open. BELASCO OPENS OCTr 6. David Belasco yesterday arranged to open the Belasco Theatre for the season on Tuesday evening, Oct. 6, with Leo Ditrichatein in “The Phan- tom Rival.” The play was translated from the Hungarian by Mr. Ditrich- Gossip. ‘d@ Granville is in “Dancing y and Blanche Day: coming back to town soon after a long absence. ‘They'll be at the Cole- nial. Valerie Bergere has a new playlet called “The Locks of Panama.” kd- gar Allen Woolf wrote it, Yanct Dolly has recovered from an attack of ptomaine poisoning and will leave with her husbamd, Harry Fox, for the south Baturday, Everett Hutterfield yesterday be- came a member of the cast which wilt support Adele Blood in “Milady's Boudoir.” Joseph F. Partridge of the New York Exchange of the World Film Corporation is making an extensive business trip throughout Western Canada, William A. Brady will to-day put into rehearsal “The Lone Wolf,” the cast of which is to be headed by Lou Tellegen, Mroadway heard yesterday that Clara Morton of the Four Mortons had become the mother of a ten- pound gis In private Ute Clare Morton is Mra Frank Shean of De- roit. B, A. Rolfe has formed the Rolfe Photoplay Company. His will be “Satan Sanderson.’ bv Rolfe will distribute through the co, Paul Bydow, the London vaudeville impresario, is in New York offering his wares, Lady Constance Stewart Richardson and Maud Allen are under his direction. Mile, Emma Trentini will be seen and heard this season in a new Viennese opera called originally “Polen Blut.” The Shuberts will prob- ably give it a new title. George H, Murray, who seconds all motions made when the Friars hold a meeting, gone back into the litho- graphing business. He left it several monthe nee to gain some weight and lest twenty pounds. LEW SHIFTS PROFESSIONS, Lew Kooley, the comedian of “A Lady's Folly.” who went to work at the waited out his board bill, but will re- main, He had developed into a good arm waiter and says he'll follow that profession until the war is over— ‘Walnut (Mo.) Times. PRISONERS TO ACT. Up at the Auburn prison there has been organized among the convicts a theatrical club and arrangements have been made to give performances in the chapel of the institution. The move to form the club began shortly after a “Peg o' My Heart” company gave a performance in the prison last New Year's Day. It culminated just recently. An effort in being made to induce Fritsi Scheff to give the club a talk on acting, The members of the organisation are hoping that some good ge director eets into the toils of the law and fs sent them soon, SHE LIKED THE PLAY. The pupils of the public achool at Leesvill a Col., preesnne: a omnis alsed extravi out there recently Hicke House waiting table, has |" WELL, (T Hao TO BE DONE Oo ASK ME - O8SIE P belle Mae Doolittle, the Leeaville poetess, wrote a little poem about the .| production, and it was printed in the local paper, here it com The little o Played “The night; It made the audience happy, Each child being a delight. My sister’n daughter, Tina Ricketts, ‘as the dear fairy queen; She made a very nice actreas For one so young and green. e Light. Hold tight— of Leesville Fairy Queen” last My father became angry to-day And pounded Mr, Tabor— I don't see why he's always fighting, Especially with a neighbor. But, apeaking of ‘The Fairy Queen,” It'was.a lovely affair, The profits were fourteen forty, It had such a metropolitan alr, WHEN HEPNER QUIT ACTING, Delving into William Hepner’s past moment, did you know that he did, about his first and only appearance on the stage yesterday. “T was engaged as a ‘super’ in a street scene,” suid Mr. Hepner. “An- other fellow and I were told to pafs along in front of the scenery depart- ment store and shake hands. We de- cided to show some acting ability in our work, We met in the middle of the stage and began to shake hands. The shaking was punctuated with salutations like ‘How are you’ and ‘Fine day.’ Suddenly I heard a hoarse whisper from the wings. It said, ‘Git off that stage, you boobs.’ Then tt swore terribly. We knew we'd be beaten up if we went out that way, so wo looked in the opposite direction. here was another husky swearing and threatening. “What happened?" asked Mr. Liv- ingston. “Why, we both quit the acting pro- fession then and there.” “But what happened before you gave It up?” persisted his auditor. “Oh, let's talk of - lena ‘i Mase of something pleas. Copyright, 1014, by ‘The Press Hublishing Us, (The New York Evening World). AN I have $27” asked Mr. Jarr. “Good gracious! What do you want $2 fort” Mrs. Jarr inquired. “Well, if I must itemize it, I want to buy a fur-lined overcoat, a run- about automobile, have my yacht put up in winter quarters, get a matched ck MAN WOVULDN T GRAB AT QUININE THAT Itt chestnut wheel and off horse for my four-in-hana”— “Now, please don't try to be funay!” interrupted Mrs. Jarr. “What do you want § for at this time in the week?” “What difference does it make what time of the week or whet time of the day it is?” Mr. Jarr pleaded plaintively. “I need $2 or I wouldn't ask for it.” Mrs, Jarr sighed and thot remarked she supposed she would have to let |; him have it or there would be no liv- ing with him, but she didn’t see how she was going to pay her bills when he took all the money away from her and wouldn't even tell what he want- ed with it. Then took place that mysterious and wonderful performance that al- AMMY’S SLATE MIKE ROBE IKE Robt i ™ ARUNNY 1 Prib fer tgn WHO NEVER GREW UN Bre ENOUGH POUWS a ee Discov: Mine Ro ipre WHO HE wAs Nh MikKE NKOoB? MUST Lt fal VERY HARRY ON FE FOR VR Gots scart VED. iva SwimwminG® IN THE THINGS LivES IN AtoVr OF BRot NS, SOME OF Une COodb AND BAD one Atwus ONES THE WELL A AND I QYARREL TRY TO MAP E GOOD ANNES ‘ ' AND THEN DocTOR TO ARB? HE WS SOME tHioy MIKE ROS WATER TO LAT. HECHAS AND StSTE VERY AND PA EING VEKY BAD THE HWE Goon ONES Art ING, FOR THE BAD PEOPLE SICK, AND Ky le WEEP THEM HAVE tO (Ata . TRALEE. Siu, | AIN'T THROUGH Lv worm vere THE MARRYING OF MARY @ By Thornton Fisher William Is Up Against “The High Cost of FABLASAAAAAABAABAAASAAAAARAAAIS IAM As the Family Banker Mrs. Jarr Has Widely Distributed Deposits FAABADSPABAALAAALSAAAALAAAAAAAAAAL ‘ways ensues when a married man of less than moderate means tries to get @ little cash out of the wifely ex- ohequer. First, Mrs. Jarr opened one of the bureau drawers and looked under the Nght brown paper that covered the bottom. Then she shut the drawer and opened one of the larger bureau drawers and searched at the back underneath some neatly folded wearing apparel in this drawer, with- out wrinkling or disturbing it. Then she shook both the ornamental vases on the mantel, but the sounds that regulted evidently gave no resporec of what she was looking for, “You're foolish hiding your money around like that,” ventured Mr. Jarr. any of those apartment house thieves got in those would be the firat places they’d look.” Mrs. Jarr only gave him a scornful Blance and resumed her gearch. She looked under the long hand-painted. pincushion om her bureau—work of the fair hands of her dear friend, Clara Mudridge-Smith — and then ‘améng all the nondescript junk in the old tlk covered bonbon box she used to hold a vast collection of buttons and darning implements, Buddenly she stopped her search and snapped out: “You're getting me as nervous as @ eat! I'll and it if you'll only leave ene alone.” ‘Then ake looked under the ed;e of the carpet by the radiator, and then between the mattress and box spring of the bed, where she'found what she was searching fore key. ‘With this key she unlocked her closet and from behind a hanging skirt found @ handbag from which she took a emall, flat purse with a aap fasten- er. Having opened this she pawed through some emall coins and some long-expired street car transfers, head. ache tablets and a small folding button hook. These she had all emptied into ber hand. She sew replaced them, put back the purse into the wrist hag, hung it under the skirt again, locked the closet again and hid the key where ahe wouldn't remember it the next time she wanted it, and then fished deft. ty into the top of her stocking, keep- ing her back turned all the while—éor {tion's well te let a husband know hew | much money 1s im haytd, #0 to speaks, At the concluaton of all these finan- eal preliminary ceremonies ahe band- ed My. Jaaw e-araippied cae-Belier bith, “Geo whiz!” cried Mr. Jarr, “there couldn't haye been any more trot and delay in getting money out of ® national bank! And only a dollar, enough for you, these hard Mra, Jarr declared, Just then Gertrude, the light running domestic, came in and whispered to Mrs. Jarr, “It's the paper ma voke up Mra, “I don’t like those Httle billg to run up. Will you give him nineteen cents? I haven't any change.” Mr, Jarr got his eighty-one cents back just as the voico of a peddier was beard in the land. “It's a man with potatoes In @ wagon, only twelve cents a Lalf peck," said Mrs. Jarr, after looking out of the window. “Give Gertrude the money for two pecks. Oh, I'll let you have it again!” Mr. Jarr sighed and passed over a quarter, and rushed out. \Master Willie Jarr held him up at the door, “Ho, pop! Give me and Emma ten eents apiece for the movies—it’s an educational film, won'toha? It’s called ‘Save the Pennie: “No,” aid Mr. Jarr shortly. “Ask your mamma!” But knowing the fue tility of thie, Master Jerr burst forth inte @ prolonged wail, Real English in Restaurants, 66@ LIP me a brace of cacklesl” ordered the chosty-looking xoung man with a bored alr as he perched on the first stool im the lunch room, “A what?’ asked the waitress ad oe plans @ glase of water before “Adam and Eve flat on their backs! A pair of gunnysiders!” said the young man im exasperated tone, “You got me, kid,” returned the wattress, “Watcha want?” ‘Hgea up," sald the young maa, “"M-g-a-s,' the kind that come be fore the hen or after, I never knew which,” “Why didn't you say so tn the firet place?’ asked the waitress, “You'd & had ‘am by thin time.” “Well, of all things'—— sald the young man, "I knew what he was drivin’ the time,” in the waitress, young man departed, "But of them fellere that thinks by with anythii