The evening world. Newspaper, April 24, 1915, Page 6

— ee SMESPEMEDED = —_2.— Mever Heard of Memise 1 Mrs. Dingwall-Batts Told Him About It HIS LECTURE SPOU LI Thought |) Was “Jef” Shake Speare’s Birthday — Pele Brown Starts Usual Fight By Bide Dudley. ritne Walker of Deiht Pex. at pr sojourning th Fork. addressed the Wisteria hake eprare « ena Hall, Harlem Peeterday afternoon The May ' © bad wart owing to the fact thar he misunderstood the on to speak eXtended him by President Mre Ding Wall. Mer Hhe asked him to “talk On Shakespeare” The Mayor thinks he should have been more apecitie ‘The hall was crowded at 3 o'clock when Mayor Walker appeared with Pansy Mae Darling and Mite Blossom Velvet of the Winter Garden phorus and Constable Pele Brown of Delhi. He wae given a round of applause and almost immediately Prosident Mra Dinewell-Hetts announced from the festrum that the Mayor would be the next apeaker. Mr. Walker saw that the girle and Constable Brown were weated in the front row and then went mp on the platform and shook hands with the Preaident “It given me great pleasure,” began she, “to introduce to you"—- “One who.” prompted a voice from the front row. Tho President was vin- fbly disturbed. A young woman usher ‘went to the front row and found Con- stable Brown grinning foollahly “He won't do it aguin!” whispered Mies Pansy Mae. SUGT WHY MAYOR CY PERKING WALKER 16 CELEBRATED. “Me gives me great pleaeure,”” came frem President Mrs. Dingwall.Retts again, “to introduce to you the prin- cipal speaker of the afternoon, Mayor Gyrus Perkins Walker of Deihi, Tex., @ man who bears @ reputation in his ‘home town for"-— “Lushin’,” said the voice, atill com- | gne from the front row. Hesing Pres- Sent Mrs. DingwaN-Betts was per- {Qerbed, Mayor Walker stepped to the edge of the rostrum and said: “shut wp, Pel came from the constable. “He bears a reputation,” continued ident Mrs. Dingwall-Betts, “for enty and fair dealing "You got to mo away from home to CHILOREN HATE PILLS, CALOMEL AND CASTOR OL New cross, feverish, cons! pated, give “California Syrup of Figs.” Look back at childhood days. dose" ‘mother iusisted oa-—castor oil, calomel, cathartics. How ze, hated them, how you fought against iu hem. oy our children it's different. who cling to the old form of ic simply don't realise what they ‘The children's fovelt me well founded. Their te: it sides” are injured by them. Mf your i bs stomach, liver and bowels need cleansing, give onl; cious “California Syrup of Figs.” Its ‘action is positive, but gentle. Millions ef mothers keep this harmless “fruit tive” handy; they know children to take it; that it never fails to in the liver and bowels and sweeten stomach, and that a teaspoonful @iven to-day saves a sick child to-morrow, ‘Ask your druggist for » t bot- tle of “Californie Syrup of Figs,” which full directions for babies, child: ba for grown-ups plainly Geld bere. See that it is made by ““Cali- Bee eT eMs contenss if ji-|he said to Policeman McVey of rare of counterfeits ' ' a4 & tout PRESIDENT OF WISTARIAS BETS MAYOR RIGHT Mas nae » x men ; . “o "- fight followed and ( rower | Fave finaly ined Cot Pte CHR etter the m and the women “ame fi Mine Melchett ti: Farrar Makes |: Hhakempenre in dead aa jent M Dingwall Netty “Is that ao" ime from the Mayor, “Well, Loartainly am sorry.’ He bowed himself out of the room, followed by Mine Darling The Mayor BEING 1000000 And Win apeech have sat the whule of dowerved fifteen minutes of that section of Harlem talking adulation at her well ape) There is much indignation Pearance, for the season at leant, at bnsasinatt <tiaiemmmaniS the Metropolitan Opera House last SAY | night. She had sung and a» terfly” with ber best art and tn her | best voles, ‘Time and tine again ashe | was recalled to show only by means of signs that she could not make @ Secretary of Pilgrim Society of London Pays Tribute to Work of Mercy. A atrong tribute to the work of mercy which the United States is per- forming in the European war was uttered to-day by Harry EK. Brittain, secretary of the Pilgrim's Society of London, who arrived here om the Lusitania to-day, He said: England they greatly appre- clate the way America is helping the sick and suffering in Husope. The American Committees for Reilef have bean feeding 10,000,000 mufferers, Of that number 7,000,000 belong to Bel- wium and 3,000,000 to France. our flag has safeguarded more relief than the philanthropy of the whole world ever dreamed it would be asked to supply. Under the Stara and Btripes a distressed civilian army greater than the combined militant armies of France and Germany ta be- ing kept alive, “You have passed the lines of all armies, broken all blockades and gained the frat decisive victory of the war, The amasing thing in this war is the way in which the Ameri- can people, without the slightest breach of neutrality, have stepped in- offensively into Armageddon thereby saved a nation.” FAT ACTOR PARADES BROADWAY IN NIGHTIE A corpulent man, bald and clad only | be repeated. fn a nights! » stood bewildered, at Broadway and Forty-nintb Street at| let, danced 3 o'clock this morning. “Iam Bartley MoCallen, fifty-seven years old, a moving picture actor,” West Forty-seventh Street station. “T) under the direction of Walter Dam- West Forty-eighth|rosch, gave a recital at the Hotel live “at No. 221 treet. 1 was initiated into some lodge| Claridge yesterday afternoon. last evening—I can't remember what lodge it was. made me awfully nervous, At home a to throw me into the tub again and I gumped out of bed and ran. The next 1 know I was in Broadway and a lot of people were hooting at me.” treated McCallen for Hospital, hya- taxi. Hilde Speng ( Rest. Hilda = Spong, actress, whe among the passengers who arrived on y othe had been for x» physician England advised that Don’t Be Misled may imitate our Bu Merit ha: | le and excellent remedy. jcause for con akin t lee, blotches, sallew. skin, he hes, billcusness, digziness and that) red feeling. Get a boxto-night —-10c, 25c the Box | They plunged me into! Saena, ® bathtub full of cold water and that| 4nd Brahms, was expressed with fine while ago I dreamed they were going) audience was most enthusiastic, teria, the movie actor went home tn al Chrin wilt 1) her | Carnegie Hall. she | cupies a unique position as an Ameri. advertiae- they can't duplicate R @ {Chas won for our product | eee ee eee ye'ing ton of children, to which Louis J.|tlon im the result of testimony taken at | THOUSANDS ° v : iC HOLS ‘ Pacace ; a eee $ wage + Ates ; y is In Spite of Rule By G lveater Rawling. DRALDINE FARRAR gota well speech, as Mr Gatt)-Casaxa thin season forbade it wore of no avail, The asbestos cur- tain was jowered and the lights, practically, were turned out in vain. Minn Farrar's adherents held their posts and refused to budm@ Finally, the lights were turned on again, the asbestos curtain was raised, and Miss Farrar appeared in dishabille, her hair down her back, wiping off t spots, or the paint, or whatever was on her face with a towel, and, in her other hand, usin) mirror, and then she did makea little spec! coming back nest year yelled at her. es, and for many yeare to come!" she replied, and that was all. ' In the cast were Rita Fornia, Ric- cardo Murtin, Antonio Scotti, Angelo Bada and Giulio Rossi, M: Polacco) conducted a fine performance maater- fully. Tho seventh, and last, of the sea- son's Morning Musicales at the Bilt- more yesterday drow a great audience and was thought by most of the sub- scribers to be the best. It was a costume recital, and Mr. Bowman had built for it what looked like a sub- stantial stage, with a fine proscenium, the scenery being particularly at- tractive and the lighting effective. To begin at the end, the sketch, “In Spain,” to music by Valverde and Chop a delicious trifie, admirably @ung and acted by Lacrezia Bor! and Andreas de Segurola of the Metro- Politan Opera Company, down the house. That Mr. de Segurola nearly fell out of the awing that was one of the best properties In the scene did not lesson the enjoyment of the audience, ruling Her efforts brought and | Before that, Mr, de Segurola had sung arias by Mozart, Grieg and McGeoch, Miss Bori had charmed everybody by her beautiful singing of songs by Gretry, Saint-Saens and Bibella, and the two together had sung arch duet: by Barthleimy, jacroze and Misi Zucea, The latte “Tendres Aveoux' was for the first time, a charming bit of composition, that the author accompanied at the plano, It had to Then that remarkably clever dancer, Rosina Galli, the head of the poarig geod Opera House bal- in ravishing manner to by Victor Her! ‘Lugini, and Fumagalll, — Biise Kutachera, an opera singer and teacher well known in Paris and Brussels, once a Wagnerian star here music Detibes Her programme, which included songs by Wagner, Rossini, Debussy, Saint d'Indy, Schubert, Schumann understanding and art if not always with the commensurate voice. The Prospects for next season are most encouraging, according to @ statement issued by the Philharmonic Orchestra. | Practically all of the old suppertera After Dr. Costango, of Polyciintc| have renewed their subscriptions. ‘The | ¢MDat! this morning to bring her hus- books will be opened for new subacrib- erson Muy 8, A total of forty-six con- be given, at which the leading soloists, both vocal and in- strumental, will appear with Mr. Stransky. ‘The Kriens Symphony Club an- nownces a concert for next Monday at ‘This organization oc- bonding bo announced by Madam ‘ wr Monday evening at (he Armatibiy Hall t for the benerit ” Aunerionn 1 rund Anum ber of componere will comMuct thelr own works John MeCormack will sing » pro-! Kramme made of KonKN “by req “Jat bis eleventh and final appearance of the aeason in New York, at Car new A deluge | ee eee eee eer reer eee LOM professional mune lovers ae we students | \ umibers for technica Leeter Ho Major nt Michaela Cnureh the performer on hr vr Monday at eh mania of f Brooklyn, will | oncert at the Church oa Hivening with Amer sn Com Hail to-morrow night h been received from his the announ ent would b lowed to be rendered.) Donald M the young Austral-| jan vi hist, and Bdwin Sehneider, the aecompanist, who has been on the sick list for several weeka, will assist Arnold Volpe and his Young Men‘s « closing concert of this, thelr thir- | ---— teenth, season at Terrace Garden on Sunday, May 2, ‘T'schaikowsky's fifth * hony and the overture to Wag- ni “Henst"” are the selections, Marie Gruenwald, pianist, will assist and Jacob RittenLand, the concert- master, will piay the “Faust” fan- tasie by Wienlawski. The Russian Symphony Orchestra, headed by Modest Altschuler, leaves Monday on its annual spring tour. | They will visit a number of cities in Ohio, Pensylvania and Canada, re- turning for more extended stays at Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia and | Lake Chautauqua. The New York season will at the end of next November, jarie Stoddart, Marie Morrisey, George Harris jr., and Wil- fred Glenn compose the vocal quartet. The Cantor Josef Rosenblatt and his choir will sing synagogue music; a double quartet of Yiddish folk song singers of Boston will take part; Maximilian Pilzer, the violinist, will play, and Stellan Rubenstein will sing opera seloctions, at the festival of Jewish music in the Washington Ir- eed High School to-morrow evening at 8. David Bispham will give a pro- gramme of songs in English at a con- cert at Aeolian Hall on Thuraday eve- ning of the Blind Men's Improvement Club, He also will recite Browning's “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” with Arthur Bergh at the piano, Sarah Hernhardt's name heads the let of patronesses for the grand opera musical at the Biltmore on Fri- day evening for the benefit of the Cripples' Welfare Society, The art- tata will be Frances Alda, David Bis- pham and Albert Spalding. MISSING YONKERS MAK WAKES UP IN OHIO ville B sioner, Writes His Wife That He Lost His Memory. Tho mystery of the disappearance of J. Foster Jenkins, former Police Commissioner of Yonkers, who had been missing from home since April 7, was cleared up to-day by a letter to his wife from Jenkins himself in which he sald be was in Cincinnati and that he could not In any way ac- count for himscit, Twelve years ago Jenkins muffered an attack of amnosia and it is sup- posed the affliction came upon him again. Mrs. Jenkins started for Cin- Mari band home. She said he had written her that he had seen bis picture pub- that this had brought him to his, ‘The day Jenkins disappeared he went to New York to seek appoint- | ment as appraiser in the Yonkers! can school for orchestra player: Students are invited to appear at its rehearsals in order to gain experience j and receive the necessary criticiam of their work to prepare themseives for the large symphony societies, The | work of the organization is indorned by Victor Herbert and Reginald De | Koven The Junior Orchestra, an organiza- Cornu gives his services as loader gra- lian Hall on Tuesday afternoon, Cornu wih be assisted by Lum B: | Avelyn Leavy, an eleven-yeur- and Flora Coan Basset! | Cornu, old pian Pri his al free organ recital: tuttously, will give @ concert at Aeo- | Mr. Samuel J. Baldwin announces at City Post Office condemnation proceedings. pAilisceti Lata a, 60 NEW CARS ORDERED. Hayward Compele Increai vice on Queens Road, ‘The Now York and Queena County | Railway Company to-day was orderea |by Public Service Commissioner’ Hay- ward to increase its service. Thtw ac- Ser- @ rehearing on a previous order from the Commission, directing the railway company to acquire adout sixty new | cars. ‘The company leased twenty ad- ditional cara, placed them in service and then applied to the Commission for (a rehearsing and modification, Commissioner Haywards ‘dectston, hacked by the other members of the Commission, In that the original order Symphony Orchestra will give the '}@oe@@« day night. Walska, Tuesday Standard Ninetieth Street, in Harvey J. O'Higgt! “The Argyle Case. murderer College on Sunday and Wednesday for sixty new cars sna stand. The afternoons at 4P. M. The prograinmes company must make contracts for the include the customary selections for new care by June L t i LOW, Mane “ta © tao relearn Layee wa EM : THE BVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 2 AINE sheet tl 096-0 4-44-0-6-9464-0006-00600600 0-64 ee ORK THEATRES BY (errr reer eer eee) Gtnce WAG HBvAN oun wonmss ome eee er ces | THESE, PLAYERS SMe Page way Bossa STRAND TreaTRS M5 FLlowen mR. TRACY, DAWCING CARNIVAL , GRano CANTRAG Paace fe + the Russian larker, Lillah \ “The Auctioneer.” | | Jenkins, Former Police Commis-| 4 pew “girl number, Mine," 1s brought ° je Dressler in SS “-” comes to the Bronx Opera House, Plays for the Coming Week. FRENCH musical comedy, “MMe. A Nitouche," will be produced at the Century Lyceum on Mon- For this special Lucien Bonheur has assembled a com- pany of French artista, headed by Mme, Blanche Arral. In her support will be Desire Defrere, Mile, Losanne, Mme. Diska, H. Renavant, M. Bene- dict and M. Faure. M. Regnier of the Folies Bergeres will introduce special dances, and the chorus will include an octet of young women from Paris. The orchestra will be under the direction of Alexander Sinaliens. The composer of “Mile. Ni- touche” is M. Herve and the libretto is the work of MeiJhac and Millaud. An added attraction will be the ini. tial appearance here of Mme. Ganna prima donna, who will be heard tn Russian, Polish and French songs. er Mile. Fleury and ‘The last performance in Wallack's Theatre will be given on next Satur- day night when, after ‘The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" and “Andro- cles and the Lion,” there will dresses by Augustus Thomas, Gran- MeCarthy Rose Coghlan, A poem by Oliver Her- ford will be read by Miss Coghlan, for many years associuted with the house shes is to end ita career. A souvenir programme has been arranged for the occasion, At the Manhattan Opera House on night David Warfield will celebrate his 1,400th appearance in “Boy of will be added to Ziegfeld's “Midnight Frolic’ 38 Monday night. Robert Hilttard and his osiginal company will be the attraction at the Theatre, Broadway, armet Ford and detective play, In the story a to justice, band of counterfeiters broken up and the dictograph and the finger print demonstrated. - Mix- “THE HAWK” SECURED FOR GRAND, BROOKLYN. By special arrangement the Grand | Opera House, Brooklyn, will present lished In a New York newspaper and | for the first time as a stock com- ished little | CONT! Entire Week Beginning Sunday BLANCHE SWEET In the Dramatic Success “THE CAPTIVE” Comedies—Travel Scenics —~ Animated News. Superior i ELP WAN First Showi Next Week: * season ad- and at pany play “The Hawk,” William Faversham is still scoring a big success. Dudley Ayres will play the titled gambler, who makes a great sacrifice because of his unself- ish love for his wife. The role of the wife will be acted by Mina Gombel. pasate tas THe cnd Baty ates, There will also bo European war pio- r ny The dont Amctaan ‘Travel Soenice| tures. travel and scientific studies, @ THE BEAUTY PARADE [are attracting widespread attention, oe mauaalonh ye FOR COLUMBIA THEATRE. “The Beauty Parade” is the title of next week's offering at the Columbia ‘Theatre. A big organization of bur- lesquers, including comedians, singers and dancers and a chorus of girls, will be seen in a two-act travesty called “Five Hundred Dollars Re- ward.” The story tells of the adven- tures of two humorously disposed law breakers who accidentally enter the premises of an academy for girla. ‘They are pursued by a New York de- tective and a local constable, whose embarrassment at having to invade the seminary adds to the fun of the proceedings. The principal characters are played by Lilla Brennan, George ¥. Hayes, Embark Al, BE. A. Turner, Joe Phillips and Mickie Murran, In- cidental to) the performance novel vaudeville specialties will be tntro- duced and many musical numbers will be rendered by the chorus. “The Winners” will be the bur- lesque attraction at the Murray Hil! Theatre, . _-—— “FRENCH MODELS” AT THE OLYMPIC. “French Models’ will be seen at the Olympic Theatre. In the company are Frank Burt, Walter Vernon, Hugh Bernard, Flosme McCloud, Amy Allyn, Laura Houston and George Martin. A chorus of twenty girls will partici- pate in the einging and dancing ‘numbers of the two-act burlesque es BLANCHE SWEET AT THE BROADWAY. An exceptionally strong bill In mo- tion pletures and music will be of- fered at the Broadway Theatre, be- ginning to-morrow. Blanche Sweet, | the famous Lasky star, will make | her second appearance under thin} management in an elaborate photo dramatization of “The Captive,” a| drama of the Balkan wars by Cecil | B. De Mills and Jeanie MacPhereon, | Miss Sweet has the role of a Monte- negrin peasant woman, and {s sup-| ported by House Peters as a captured | Turkish nobleman, The main events take place in Montenegro, and many | of the scenes occur on the Impover- | farm owned by Sonya, UOUS, 11.80 to 11.15 »* 10c-15¢-25c in which] the peasant girl who finds herself de- verted and hopeless after her glider brother has been killed in combat with the Turks wa Leer tags , be fen Hlth veda mn subjects are “Migratory Birds” and ‘eters, the cast of “The Captive” in- | “Duck ting." . Sal w Gludin’ Geraid Ward, Page. Patera | coe eee, De: Saltebury yu Jeanie MacPherson, Theodore Rob- ferred to the Venetian Garden on the stage. Another innovation is the in- astallation of a banjo and mandolin orchestra on the other eido of the| {int ‘a vapectacular Jove AOTy : ae based ‘upon Gustave Flaubert’s novel » lof the same name, and the newest FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE Charles Chaplin picture, “By the Sea,” will be shown on Thursday, TO HAVE SURPRISE BILL. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. J War pictures secured by Miss Ray Proctovs Fifth Avenue Theatre| Beveridge, who served ax a German . | Red Cross nurse, will br shown at the Dromigny & surprise Pil of ent all) Park ‘Theatre, Miss Beveridge will far acts, In addition a Charies} givy a short talk on what she saw at Chaplin “movie” will be shown, The! thw front. Fifty-aighth Street ‘Theatre will fea D. W," Grimth's epic film, |The % ae t Birth of a Nation.” at the Liberty Lich =e ay eens urgiat, and! mneatre, Is now in ite third month. Mildred Blanchard and company in al m{q production has been establishing one-act drama, The bill at the/a record for attendance, Plans are Twenty-third Street Theatre will be headed by Daniels, Stewart and com- pany, while at the One Hundred and| {erated Twenty-ffth Street Theatre “six | = — Peaches and a Pair," with O'Neill and Dixon, will be the feature, At Hammerstein’s Victoria Theatre Princess Radjah in Ortental dances, Frank Fogarty, the Dublin Mins' Ruby Norton and Sammy Lee tn songs, Will Rogers, the Expos Four ‘and McMahon and Chap will be among “Willie Hammerstein Week.” ——— “MAY BLOSSOM” ON STRAND’S SCRE. The Strand Theatre will prose photo dramatization of David lasco'a American play, eom," which was this BURLESQUE. ENTIRE CHANGE OF SHOW mie Eitcent, fat. Heat Gren, | Beats 25e to Ladies Only, those to celebrate “May Blo: COLUMB a ‘wice Laily~ Popular Prices Smokin; Permitted ducer's firat Eastern success. Dr, Ede ward A. Salisbury’s “Wild Life” pio- tures will also be shown. The ba] deliver a lecture with these pictures, At the Eighty-first Street Theatre, on Broadway, Valli Vall! makes hes debut as a motion picture actress in “The High Road,” which will be seen the first three days of the week. :'Ba- heing completed to inake the summer run a feature of the season. A new aystem of cooling the theatre fs being ee trol; | [WIRE TO CO AND NOW 90 CET new ton ___STEAMBOATS, _ pelle E v MONEY ROUND TRIP, 0 nt a Be- BROADWAY & BURLESOUE FUN FOR ALL by With Music and ing and Galore! com Monday ARERWK