The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1916, Page 22

a Be kind to poor old Uncle, Me, and sort o? bamor rn na rene Home and Comic Page of THE EVENING WORLD, Friday. January 7. 1916 covey] “7 S*MATTER, POP?” ee: “ eas Ah pee “By C. M. Payne we 1 ] Dont FRep low Fut | WH ADDA YA MEAN, You SCATTER To Muc ( (TH A Seevien { 5 ern with A Stich Tice YA TELL How USELESS CONVERSATION Muct GATHOLEEN Mp Mira rri/ S ? We THIN A CAN J FRUN ALONG > co - J § va 4 COCOO000G0, About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY Through an arrangement made be- | tween Corey, Willlams & Riter and | Klaw & Erlanger, Mrs. Fiske will be- | gin an engagement at the Galety | ‘Theatre Jan. 18 tn her new play, | “Erstwhile Susan.” This will be the first professional appearance of the | actress in New York in more than | two years, “Erstwhile Susan,” which ‘was written by Marion de Forest | from “Barnabetta,” a novel by Helen | R. Martin, ts © play concerning the Pennsylvania Dutch. It is described as 4 three-act comedy. Mrs. Fiske's company includes John Cope, Made- Sdward Robins, Jobo Robert Stowe Gill, | nd others, | | Courd YA Terr WITH A WEIL HAS ANOTHER. ‘That intrepid young producer BD. A. ‘Weil ‘Serppering to launch another play. Jie he doesn’t care to tell ite name, since that would be letting the feline out of the gunny, he says it is @ drama with a punch, and ad- vises ail to pay heed. Emily Ann Wellman has been engaged by Mr. Weil for the leading role. — | | BOWLES GOING ABROAD. | } George Bowles, now in charge of t the film “The Birth of a Nation” at the Colonial Theatre, Chicago, is to escort that same movie to Australia, China and Japan. The engagement at the Colonial will end Jan. 16, and he will start West soon after, to be gone a year. Incidentally, Mr. Bowles has sold those famous hens he was wont to harbor at Westport, Conn. ‘They are no longer laying for the Lambs. NEWS FROM MARTIN SAMPTER. Martin Sampter, who looks after the stage activities of numerous Ddeautiful women, is authority for the ‘ statement that Muriel Hudson, the : ' auburn-baired one in the “Midnight i | Frolic,” 1s to be featured soon in a ' Broadway musical production A new producing combination la behind the project, he asserts, and it looks as though things are going to bum. Don't be surprised, he says, whatever happens. OUR OWN SONG DEPARTMENT, (Ne, 4, Series B, Clams M.) if = A romp, went coe aferncon wo tabe « wabray T WouLD'NT SLEEP IN Zi¢-N SS WO 1D \ MATTER WITH ITT WELL Wot Die att digi} Mm the eomery that fia alone the THAT DAWGONE. Room ZF} td (ois oN WITH TH! ONE way THERE'S A So tals aaiinr ne hard car cight-txts-thewe attached to on ON A BET ~T DID'NT, GZ; HANIN’ ANOTHER YOu'vVE GoT P CouPLE OF MICE ? Te take a ip to Brookyn; she wer demerate, I HIRE A “MENAGERIE” 1 FIGHTIN A brid Site rushing wp to he and gave ber te | Aly SE UL TELL AMAT. ve Z pve stale Able wo af as twine wah ak tow Se Coo)” Rewged (TATE MOTE TH MATTER ‘Asner’, 1014, Prema Puttwning Ca I. ¥, Prening Wont TIS Dove COST ME “TEN BUCKS BUT SHE'S WORTH IT! WHEN We. CROSS GERMANY (LL HAVE HER SIT ON MY HAT AND THE GERMANS CAN SEE 1M A MAN OF PEACE! J Wet AXEL - woT CHA dort’ [ MMeRe ? COME ON OUT > \ AN see my “SAFETY FIRST BIRD. THEM GERMANS LL NEVER GoTHER ME Now! AY ponT ; NEED VUN: WHADDAYA MEAN THEY WoNT BOTHER YOU EITHER? You AINT GoT A LITTLE “Peace DOVE” \ eee ey ee ee him. Ta es Saran ee Were, eee Ee; bo nae money tm we po, it thin harehly even though be te ee & site ao oe fore tet old Uncle; be bee mony ie IT HAS A CHANCE. Mabel Nicholl, the twelve-year-old office girl at the Dillingham head. te went to see “Stop, Look and " Wednesday night. She had to stand up because all the seats wero eold, Yesterday Mr. Dillingham ealled her tn his office and asked how she liked his latest musical produo- tion. Mabel hesitated and the man- ager fidgetted. “I think,” she finally replied slow- ly, “it will get over.” Mr. Dillingham eighed a big sigh | Urer of the Forty-elghth street Thea- | “Hit-the-Trail Holiday” wild ———— Sars envis be] sobbing with her head on her } of genuine retier. tre, and he's only twenty-four years| transferred to another house. Mr. Nitschke, who ia as great a f — old, Speakers at the Drama League) tier as Henry Ford ever was, went to A LEARNED YOUNG WOMAN, They now have a public rest room| meeting at the Playhouse Tuesday ide, | Taabdel D'Armond was discussing| ®t, t2® Hippodrome, where tho tired |ternoon will be Louis Calvert, Lucien hat's wrong?” he asked. her vaudeville work yesterday with | Ay sit down and walt for friends. L. Bonheur, Grace Griswold, Mra. M. I was mean to my mother,” re Fg Tho Dunlap Society has publtshed | Morgenthau, Emanuel Reicher, plied Trixie, moaning. | “] have learned to play the Ha-|TOWANend Walsh's book, “The Career| beth Valontine and Stuart Walker.| Mr, Nitachke went back to Mr, | watian musical instrument known xa| of Dion Rouctcault.” Only 800 copies| Allen W. McCurdy will preside. Doty. was mean to her moth Re whuleion” he anid, were Issued. The Messrs, Shubert will present|ho safd, “and the song has affected “You have?” her friend replied. Goralding Farrar in the Lasky film,|Bugeno Walter's new play, “Just a|her strangely.” ?” asked “Not only have I learned to play| “Temptation,” has proved so popular| Woman,” at the Forty-elghth Street) “What did you do, Trixie 4°" sald Miss DArmond proudiy,| &t the Broadway that the photoplay | Theat nday evening, Jan. 17.|Mr. Doty. “but I learned to pronounce it," >’ | Will be kept there next week. Josephine Victor will have the leading| ‘she didn't want me to, but I be- pada Thith St. Denis will continue her spe- | role. came an actress.” | Gossip. cial dancing matinees at the Candler coneaete “Brace up, little girl” said Mr.) Marion Harris has been od tor | Bet week, Sunday night, Jan. 16, SHE'D B MEAN TO MA, Doty. “You didn’t do any such a} Ziegtela's “Midnight roan” help Ane and her company wil give @ per-| Dan Doty was rehearing the girle| thing 46 alo work. formance for the Newanoys’ Horme.|in the McKay revue at Bustanoby’s in| A moment later Trixte was singing Benn Sol Bloom will gee that the use of the/Thirty-ninth Street terday and Mother Is @ Lady and Don’t You ori gaba tpn pecedly Tena | theatre is free. kind-hearted William "Nitechko waa She Ain't” at the top of her ling roles i Sof the) “Miss Juliet and her brother, Harry| looking on. A “mother” song, heart- | . Ashmead Garvictt, the English war| Delf Will appear together for the first/rending, in the extreme, was being corruspondent. will lecture oF tire at | time in the George M. Cohan musioal| sung. Suddenly Mr, Doty noticed one public Sunday night. revue, Elizabeth Murray may be in| girl was absent, ‘Do you think the elevator boy the show too, When the Cohan revue “Where ixie?" ch?” Charles Gray has boon mado treas- lopens at the Astor early in Fobruary, : Jewore up and down he didn't,” HUMAN NATURE By Thornton Fisher “He is my rescuer,” thought Topsy when Peter Poor picked her off ° the : ct t e 4 vows, written on paper-bag parchm Ihe scrap Pere : A a wealthy one he is too," she declared, seeing used. Each clansman ¢pped his tae inger ta raph oe Prline Pet e's sixty 0! yt orse-power auto at the curb, and her sawdust heart ,Jopsy trembled lo think if), perhaps it was red blood like really in went bump thump! thump! as away they went! Ata low, dark door bandils! “ How awfully brave!" she thought and wondered if the Lord in a crooked alley they stopped. This Peter unlocked. Insits was a Fawnileroy of her heart were so brave, foo! “I shall keep Topsy for to- secret chamber, such as only boys may own, and here this clan of lads -“*aY» because I found her,” ‘sald Peter.’ “All agreed, Then Tockin the took oath that Topsy should be presented to the fair lady of the bravest secret door behind them Peter entered his sixty hobby-horse-pow 4 among them, after the fashion of knights of old, chine and Topsy and he sped away, Topsy wondered: Bibel bills: 4 ap eOr ae NO-NO- ASK = WR b= DONT YELL ar oss - bon! 1-1 CAN HEAR YOU- He Bese ue OFRG GOOWESS ME ALIVE Bove Tera IM (ve THE MWUTE YOU GseTaA Vann A are LITTLE ACHE You Act Gor AN bya L \ LUKE & REGULAR CRANK Cette THA BOY STOP Hawos YO fee PLANING THAT MACHINE: > Ne, Can HEAR IT INDICATED INTHE MARGIN. This time the auto drew before a small red store from wh's setae Sa ew I psy Saw that Peter looked ai Grace the way | ord F q Peter fetcied stacks of ne 1 his sixty hooby-horse-power looked at herself as they sat together upon the sheif in the bie a ero nae ing was off again, | at one house and another. he was bought. And a scheme formed itself in her nit eal erg he last stop was ata I « ere & butler answered Peter's he was to be a giftto the fair lady of the bravest of the el ‘ hae i A He et ie vor one opey sa Frelly cus sone hog a goldeir help Peter to be the bravest, she would be given to Gr eine ye aired doll, ‘Topsy's heart leaped, for she knew the child to be Gracie near Lord Fa e' ‘ he conti ae Good and the doll lite Lond Fauntleroy ie d Fauntleroy all the rest of her days—70 be continued, and every ene red te Circulation Back -Number Department, Evening World.