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mY - BAD EDU DUES: ‘Two of the largest theatres in New York are to undergo changes of » The Triangle Film Corpora- to nse the Knickerbocker for a year, at least, beginning Sept. 1, and Ned = Wayburn’s § Productions Company has leased the Century for & period of years, “not less than five.” statement from Frohman, Klaw & says a decision has been te permit the Triangle con- p: put motion pictures in the om Kulokerbocker. The film plays of the -Ince-Bennett combination will it out weekly there. The ad- | Milagion prices will range from §2 “4 @o@n. The exact date of the opening | Raw mot been wet. The Triangle people | . Rave also taken the Studebaker, in | $ Ciicago, they announce, and ¢: 9 te heave houses in Philadelp! HN FL i Ne Wayburn took possession of | Century last night. He ts to con- | it om @ stupendous plan, pat- | tepaed after the European music hall | : His big musical show, “Town | fy “ wil open there early in September, and in October he will put it revue on the roof. The iterests will use the entire and will operate dance halls, | rooms, bars, &c. Grace will have charge of the public dancing. The alterations will be be- | and will cont $60,000. | Topics” will necessitate the ‘expenditure of $100,000 by the time the goes up on the first per- About 150 people are re- for it now. | fayburn proposition te going to cost about $20,000 a week, but its! is confident that New York ei hf i ie Mr. Atal of $100,000, all paid up. He doesn't care to eay who the stockholders are. GIVE SORROW A BLACK EYE. peered Mae Doolittle, the Lees ville) poetess, found herself becom! she succeeded and was happy . Then she wrote the following ‘ulngoes are wrong, beyond & doubt, " CUPID WINS A BATTLE. litte of bliss em." ¢ ered the typewri! i of the Sheedy Vaudeville Agency five years, pow gard oblivious of p> t nine out of ten Men who entered the place cast at her, Everybody thought she mune to Cupid's darts, hearted beauty with but on rs life-t. @, to make the typewriter But they were wrong. It be- known last night that Miss b end Francis K. Lieb, a , eee Berman, Lieb, the actor, went to. city une 16 last and were made one. Chariotie Korn- confidential secretary to Willie at's it) Kdesten, vaudeville agent,“went along and the trio decided to keep the dding @ secret, and they did until ay. TO STAGE “OUR CHILDREN.” *\_ George Mooser, in association with Hilsabeth Maroury and F. Ray Com- Ne Lee & new comedy is r, enti- ir Children,” ‘T. baniel Fraw- direct the rehearsals, The will be aeen in New York Aug. a ¢ \ ‘3 S FLOOEY AND AXEL—Anyugy, Axel Gets Credit for ONE Thing; He Is Loyal to His ; Now THAT WE GOT ALL THIS fouGH WE GOTTA SHOW SOME TASTE (NOUR DRESS AXEL. imitaTe Some WELL KNOWN CHARACTER - GHOW DISTINCTION Y'KNOW - ~ BE DIFFERENT! — MR: MOPLETREE, & FELLOW owes He 43000 ON A NOTE AND REFUSES TO PAY ME THE MONEN. Wow re In the vast will be Emmett Cor- Christine Norman, Alma Tell, Lewis, Alphonse Ethier, Al- Ricl Barbee, John Gavin Harris and Elizabeth # a Gossip. Claude Greneker is back at his desk Ul es e Shubert offices. ee E.—The widow of the actor you : cn. 9 not Flora Finch. Strasamen is in charge af the Estate's press department. de Oro, the pool expert, may ue for the motion picture the Cort Company. called to the Winter yesterday for the chorus of tion that theatre, a i Ht i i of “The Passing Show admits her family name is and, oe whizz, how it fits her! ‘cif has it @'Aubam,, General Stage Tom never tumbled fo Bylowland so fast in all his adventurous life. Taking Simple Simon by the coat- tails, Tam ran to the Pieman’s house and, tumbling headlong into the door, pretended that they had come to pay him for the pies they ate day before yesterday. Director of the Drury Lane Theatre, is on his way here aboard the New York to stage “Stolen Orders.” C, M, Hallard, the leading man, and other principals are with him, Peggy O'Nolll has arrived from Chi- cago. She played a total of eighty- two weeks in the title role of “Peg o’ My Heart” and earned @ fortune for Oliver Morosco. He may star her this season in a new play. Three hundred and fifty chorus men and girls went into rehearsal for the new Hippodrome show yesterday. Four halls were needed to accommo- date them, They will use the Hippo- drome stage when the decorators get through with it Vera Segal, a sivter of Vivieane Segal, ‘who stepped from obscurity squarely into the limelight when she scored in “The Blue Pai been engaged by the Mess: Vera isa dancer, The gir! di ters of a Philadelphia physician, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Magistrate—Eph, I thought you used to say you were as honest as the day is long? Prisoner—“Ah 1s, sah. Ah borrowed die pullet ip de night ime, ‘Spenser, 1 Jest Got AN OFFER OF A GOOD, LOOKIN SADDLE: ORSE FOR ONE DOLLAR AN’ SIXTY CENTS KINDA TESTIN FIRST this caper. SHOW “TASTE AKEL COPY SOME WELL KNOWN ACTOR OF * Simple sald that thougti tie tiad no penny tie’d do some tricks to pay for his pies, so he stood on the tip of his pointed nose. The Pieman laughed heartily at After Mary has been in the store about a month. an irritable customer goes to the floorwalker one cay and protests at the delay in delivering to her a bool which she has just bought from the saleswoman Sallie WELL, IMUST ConsuLT ‘: " BpOWN STONE ON EONTTEECTS 1 THE CASE OF WHITE Vs. Recte THIQTEEN MEARS Aco iw ° SION) WAS RENDERED Late) FAVOR OF THE PLAINTIFE THE COURT OF APPEALS & / \ MARY DOANE’S SUCCES S—No. 10—Nora Proves Her Friendship wx ‘When the floorwalker speaks stiarply to Sallié stie tries to excuse and defend herself by putting the blame on Mary's dilatoriness in doing up parcels. Sallie has no scruples against unjustly accusing a younger girl, THE kvaiING WURLD, Thursday 7 GEE - | LOOK ENOUGH LIKE JOHN DREW To BE HIS TWIN BROTHER ! OES This encourtiged Simple ‘Simon and fie fold x fong story of how he caught a whale when all the water that he had was in his mother's pail. At which the Pieman simply doubled up with laughter, . August 12, 1 Vy me Now LETS SEE HOw AXEL (S DOLLING HIMSELF UP! ton Fisher Win WN. o, Bvening World) How vers SEE-cEeTs SEE! THIS 1S PURELY & QUESTION INVOLVING & DEBT TO THE CREDITOR AUD THE SAID CREOITOR HOLDING THE NOTE OF mue OEBTOR-SO— “* Guass! oe By Eleanor Schorer ——— ,_ _ Meanwhile, Tom had tumbled out of the window into the yard and he persuaded the hen that she had hest lay a nice solid gold egg for the Pie though he was dishonest enough to have stolen her. “On the Tom promised, “I'll tell Mother Goose the whole story and we'll be avénged.” This done, Tom waked info Ope-eye World féel- ing happier than usual. ‘He dressed, went out into the fields and frolicked and tumbled in Ope-eye World for a long, long while before it again came time for Bylowland frolics and tumblings —Continued ‘ow morrow. THE STORY OF A GIRL WHO “MADE GOOD” ILLUSTRATED BY WILL B, JOHNSTONE w By Betty Vincent iM, 1918, Preas Publishing Co. (N. ¥. Evening World), The floorwalker then tiegins fo reproach Mary, hough he is secretly surprised, for he has noted her r ice. He threatens a fine or even dismissal, and Mary is so frightened that she does not defend herself. as skilfully as she might, ‘ The floorwalker finally turns to Mary afd ‘says:; ‘You are completely exonerated, becausé what your friend says is supported by the diligence 1 have lways* Wied in you aed por igs in your work, ut reputation is to he —| fool | puailn B Ip her yet further.—(( Suddenly her good frlend Nora intervenes, ex- plaining that Mary had parcels to do up which were turned in before Sallie’s sale, that the latter was waited, ‘on in her turn and that she had blamed Mary falsely,