The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1915, Page 18

Home and Comic Page of THE EVENING W Jules Fokert Goodman ts writing «| play for the use of Henry Miller. Mr Miller yesterday completed arrange- ments to produce it just as soon as the author finishes it. At present Mr. Miller is starring with Ruth Chatter- ton in “Daddy Long-Legs.” Mr. Good man, & graduate of Harvard, ts known to the theatre-going public for “Mother,” “The Right to Live,” “The Test,” “The New Generation” and “Just Outside the Door.” Hoe ts also the writer of the play “Treasure Island,” adapted from Robert Louls Btevenson’s book “Treasure Isiand,” ‘whieb will be produced at the Punch and Judy Theatre to-night. HEADING FOR BROADWAY. | Charies D. Coburn is preparing to | eend “The Yellow Jacket” on tour| again. Thomas BH. Jackson will bo the Property Man. Eventually Mr Coburn and his wife expect t a play in which they can appear on Broadway. They think the time |s Rearing for them to splash a bit in New York theatricala. EMMA POLLOCK AGAIN. | Bmma Pollock, who something liko +twenty years ago used to \arblo “Maggio Murphy's Homo" for tho lovers of honest-to-goodness melody, | has come to light again. Sh» is ap- ing at the City Theatre i Four- ‘Yeenth Street. Emma may have been acting around all these years, b @o, she hasn't raised much of rumpus about it. In fact, iittle ba» been of her since the days of Ned Harrigan’s “Reilly and the Four Hundred.” | — | WITH THE BILLIARDISTS. The Friars’ championship tree cushion billiard tournament is ro come nicely, Fred Biock has de- | Joe Canoly, Herbert Mac- Kensie has beaten Alex Harris and o. hag vanquished Ralph HERE COMES A. AGAIN. Beckerman, our Brookiyn corre- @pondent, is in again. Recently he felt a parody coming on, and, ad- dusting the poetry wheel on his type- ‘writer, went to work. The result was @ parody on “Back Home tn Ten- Mensee,” which, it is presumed, is a ee Here's A.'s ditty: miles"——- Pardon us a mo- 1 The office boy who knows our girl has just asked us who that ian” was he “seen us with Mast it." PEEVING BEVERLY. Sitgreaves is fust a tiny bit ked, In “The Great Lover" she to scream, and yesterday sho pked Isabel Irving what the shrieks wounded like, “Well, Beverly,” replied Miss Irving, “the only thing I can compare your to is the yow! of the tigress ‘when some one takes away her meat.” No wonder! i AL JOLSO GIFT, Lous Rosenberg, advertising man- for the Greenhut Company, vis. Al Jolson in Atlantic City recent- , and before he |.<t, the comedian im a check for $300 and told | to buy 200 baskets of food for | distribution among needy families on Christmas Day. Mr. Rosenberg in- tends to see that the baskets are so Well stocked that there will be no profit in them, It is estimated that ed Persons will benetit through Mr folson's generosit; i eaded this way pe. A. H. K.—Jose Collins was out of fhe cast on the dates you mention, Beth Lydy L, Furma: sang the role. nie a furrier on Sixth Avenue. Just thought you might ike to A Tony Hunting and Corrine Francis have a new vaudeville sketch called “Thom. MeMahon a, lahon, formerly of the ere team of McMahon and Hundreds \ Mu Hes Flower Hospital. Of one-steppers will con- test for the Elisabeth Marbury Cup at the Strand Roof to-night. Ford West, now playing the Or- ag Circuit, was married recently St. Paul to May Milloy, Arthur E. Krows is now doing the And Compete for a ever ten but not over fifteen, ‘The last the contest will be returned. er or not you win one yeureelf. BODDOD®O®DHIGVODO|QDIDOQOUETDOOOOS COLOR YOUR MOTHER GOOSE FAIR THE EVENING WORLD will award $5.00 to each of three young readers who submit the best colored pages of the “Mother Godse Fairy Book” complete from cover to concluding page. $5.00 Class A—Children not over five years of age. B—Children over five but not over ten. You may use crayon or water colors. back pages, send a two-cent stamp to the Evening World for each peae foolrod and they will be mailed you. 1 ge will be printed Dec. 17, and every page colored, must be received not later than TUESDAY, DEC, 21, Address it to “Mother Goose Editor,” Evening World, 63 Park Row, N. Y. City. Write your NAME, A @ sheet of paper, pinned to the cover pa: Cheering Christmas Gifts for Children in the New York City Hospitals. All the “Mother Gdose Fairy Books” received in the contest, that_have been nicely and carefully colored, will be distributed by THE EVENING WORLD as CHRISTMAS GIFTS among the chil- dren in the hospitals in Greater New York. that your efforts have gone toward bright- for some child less happily situated than “"S’MATTER, “PLease PoP 1-1-1, MY, HANDS. THEY yPusted Him i) Go theona! MiKé GCNNA BE BEH| GOODNESS: BILLY LOUDER... YOU MEN ARE SO HELPLESS- | HAVE FLOOEY AND AXEL— Axel Ought Pe Ba wen me ar sa aN RN WERE GONNATRY TiS ~\ MIND- READING ACT ONCE MORt} AND “JIS “Time 1 CAN'T HERE 15 THE ileal AN WHISPER THE. Answers TO YOU - GET THE IDEA? RR ReRInidiiiitih did Dol ee ee ee ne yp NSE POP?” OH, NAUGHTY +ANDS! We WILL HAve TO PunistH THEM RIGHT Now HAND MELA SMALL © m= ANT THING PLE PROFESSOR, AXEL TO GO RIGHT BEHIND NOU AND PICK UP NOUR. THINGS: WHAT WOULD HE MEN DO WITHOUTA WOMAN AROUND? publicity work for the David Chanler Dramatic Company, which has “Ro- meo and Juliet” at the Forty-fourth | Street Theatre. For the Shipman-Lipman play of Jewish life which he will produce soon, H. H, Frazee has engaged | Bobby North, Sam Sidman, Jean Shelby, Mana Zucca and Dave Fer- guson. In the making of @ dramatic film | the Vitagraph will explode 2,000) pounds of dynamite at South River r, N. J,, soon, It ought to be a bang-up| picture. The Little Playhouse Company of | Mount Vernon will present “Potash and Perlmutter” next week for the first Ume in stock, Minna Gombel is featured, FOOLISHMENT. Pape ply fol Ree eet uy They ell him vow "The Bughouse Klas.” FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Passenger (on jerawater railroad)— Why Is the train running 80 smoothly, conductor, when we were being jolted so badly a moment ago? Conductor—We're off the track now. 200080999 BOOK ; Five Dollar Award. SDN $5.00 Clase $5.00 Class C—Children If you have missed any The cover was printed Your book, complete, DDRESS and AGE on » No books submitted in OOO ODO. of the awards, you will have the OOOO OOO DWWABIAAGNGWOT SS e10% GIN AND PASTE IN BOOK, OR TIE ON CARDBOARD TI! INDICATED vs © jad MARGIN N) "Wow (F SOME ONE WILL PLENE OU WHAT FT 18 + — aamay Hollowed Out—and Then Swap Brains With ‘AT So.mRs. LoudER! ITS MEN Like Ore HUSBAND’ ie imi IT THINGS Whe, PS Hes sina LIVINGS 7, Ss l'Le GO AND Get Some ICE CREAM AND WE WONT LET THose HANDS Give You e A BT? GQ Yessir, a Flea! $e i Na CIS ay Now PROFESSOR -Teit WMAT THe Lavy HAS JUST Handed me! / ae fa ae ° FIND SOLUTIONS FOR. THE UNFATHOMABLE SO PONT PULL ANY MORE REMARKS ABOUT MENS HELPLESSKES? (1 GOIN IN AW) WELL, are Santa's most diligent workers. To-day is the first day of the busiest month of the whole found year for Mother Goose folks, Not a person, great or small or young ol old, in alf her land who was not at the postottice this moming’ awaiting a big stack of orders from out the cold white North. For these people His reindeer could not carry the load, so he called for help; and the bears and seals and penguins came and helped pull the laden sleigh to the nearest postoffice, which was 500 iniles awa, you of all the funny tumbles and slides the quai took it good-naiuredly and enjoyed the jaunt, in | haven't time to tell penguins had, but all ing Co, (N. ae What a flurry there was when the orders cid not come by the very first mail! Old folks were nervous lest the great old fellow had passed away. But every kiddy knew differently. Santa receive? many more letters than he counted on, because this year, as last, American Santa must look out for the litle children on both sides of the great ocean, Uncle Sam rushed the letters to the Mother Goose workers in time They, in turn, rushed off to buy the material ,o fill the orders ané made every kiddie happy twenty-four days from to-day! Thousands of dolls, books, boats, autos, aircraft, building toys an¢ a thousand and one other things are needed, and Mother Goose will do her best for the kiddies she ‘ + loves. You waich and see, “KS? FX LN 0 2 SS ORLD, Wednesday, December 1, 1915 > You AND 1 witt Just Teach tHose COPYriaMA UH Proms Pubiiening Co (NY Roening Werte » we we we este mike: — Y s CANT CHA WHISPER Fs festive board Thanksgiving— ene ON the table and one AT the table, BULL’S-EVES. Minding other people's business makes @ prophet—minding your own makes a profit, That we cannot read the thoughts of others undoubtedly saves us con- siderable chagrin, LIFE LYRICB—NO, 11, To eee the Flashers on the street you'd swear they had a pile, For all of them dress up to beat the very latest style, They roll around in taxicabs, put tang in tango tea, And Mrs, Flasher glibly gabe of high society, They tuck a goodly meal away when others give a spread, But often in their own home they go aupperless to bed. To buy the food their table lacks they haven't cash enough, For all they get goes on their backs to play the game called “bluff. SAFE HITS, When the fellow who “lived in your home town when you did" hunts you up in the big elty, ten to one when he walks into your office the scene Is & “touching” one, "Ten to one?’ Well, sometimes it's only five he wants. But all his enthusiasm over “seeing you again” (and getting what he came after), isn’t sufficient to bring him back again, It took him “twenty years to find you" (and to get the ten-spot), He wl die before he Onds you again (to par it back), Which proves that when he says “I of’ a think of the past,” he speaks the truth, For he is dead sure to forget the “present.” For that's what It really is, although he calls it @ “loan,” A silent man is neighbor Weeks, Hc often thinks, but never speakes Comes home from business every night And keeps hia lips together tight. But though his tongue is never plied, His ears have exercise supplied. He listens: What else can he do? For wifie talks enough for twol — ee The Old Thing! HE little, mild, bald man hed settled down in the trai to read and, feeling drowsy after a trying day at business, fell asleep, On the hatrack above was a ferocious crab in a bucket, and, reaching the edge of the rack, it fell, alighted on. the little man’s shoulder, and grabbed hia ear to steady itself, All the passengers waited 5 antly for developments, but all they heard was: “Let go, Sarah! I tell you I've been at the office all evening,” —Tit-Bits, pied in. ats The Bible Again. ‘ AISY,” remarked the teasher, “don't love your cat too mueh, What would you do if it died —you wouldn't seo {t again?” “Oh, yes; | should see it in heaven,” “No, dear, you're mistaken; animals cannot go to heaven like people.” Daisy's eyes filled with tears, but suddenly sho exclaimed triumphantly; “Animals do go to heaven, for the Bible says that the Promised Land is flowing with milk and honey, and, if there are no animals, where do they get the milk?"—Tit-Bita, 33 J Not Scientific, CIENTIFIC parent (on @ stroll} S You see out there in the street, my son, a simple illustration of @ principle in mechanics, The map with that cart pushes it in front him, Can you guess the reason why Probably not, bis ans To tl do you push itt 1 will ask him, Note my 60n, iter—My good man, that cart ‘instead of sae loster—'Cause I ain't @ boss old thickhead—ritpits. ©” bins \ ~ | @