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SIRE TERRA TT eT Home an MATTER, 4 Comic Page of THE EVENING WORLD, POP?” Saturday! January 29. 1916 By C. M. Payne we od we ®t se we we About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY - wee wv | I CERTAINY NEVER ’ SHouGHT WHENT WuZ BORN ID EVER Do ANYTH U, liwe THiS! ING }witen u Le See ieeaic whaee eomedy vees| IWUZ “BORN “English comedian, whose comedy lees and other eccentricities have made) im @ «reat favorite with the the- atre-goers of this country, expects to have to answer to the cry of “Auth- ori” before many more moons lope across the sky. Laddie, when pinned down to facts to-day, admitted he} bad written the book, lyrics a music for a new plece which is bein favorably considered by a real Broadway manager. The idea is for Laddie to act in the play himself, but if the manager were to prefer another comedian Laddie would be entirely satisfied to draw his royal- ties from an obscure perch in the background. The new musical play Basn't been named, but that matter will be fixed up in due course of When Laddie Cliff frst came to this country, only a fow years ago, IGoT CHa A NEW GUY To SPAR. GEE, AY LIKE To HAVE. 1M READY | Gnd" now look ae Bin! ios a iand| | WIT AXEL. HE'S GETTIN’ READY VUN SPARRING PARTNER VOT FER wok! owner, an automobile proprietor, husband and a regular author built along George M. Coban lines. ‘That's success! | FOUR FOR FRAZEE. H. H. Frazee settled buck in his} easy chair yesterday afternoon and, lifting the vell of his professional | future, began to yank out events: “Going to get busy soon,” he suid. “A pew production coming?" we AY CAN BUNG UP! AY VILL SOAK HIM SO -- >> 7 VELL , PUNCH DAS BAG AWHILE! AM UP ALL Y'LIKE! THar's wot \'M PAYIN' HIM FOR SO GO To it! “Only four of ‘em. I'm going to stage a comedy, a farve, a drama and @ musical play.” “80?” “Sure!” | “Which one will come first?” | “I'll put two of ‘em on at the same time. They all look like sure-fire suc- | ecoses, i} “Pretty soft, eh?” Mr. Frazee yawned. PRODUCING “NEARLY A KING.” ucing Company, ‘The Ware Case" Louse en aan "This ime! wi] HENRY HASENPFEFFER —His Friend, Mr. Goofus, Will Not Be Allowed to Visit Henry Again! titled “Nearly a King.” i@ in rehearsal now. In the cast are Lou-Tellegen, Corlass Giles, Sydney Greenstreet, Galwey Herbert, Robert Adams, Olive Tell and others. The Play deals with‘events of the period of Henry VIII. GOSSIP. | ‘The No. 1 “Pair of Sixes” com-| Pany will close to-night in Boston. | ets Tannen doesn't like t eopatds. When ho was in vai ‘one almost bit him in the mid William Hodge, in bis new play, Hering, Bister,” wiil open at the Ma- lon, Feb. 14, + Coy quartet has been en- tween t! gt ot Ste roa aia ai tne Booth °F | Lowitz, concert pia mea member of the orch: Strand. He will be hi The company HENRY HASENPFEFFER — You OUGHT “To BE ASHAMED OF YouR “SELF “To BRING A MAN IN SUCH 2A CONDITION To Y'Home! WHY DONT Y'LA\ ( See OAL VANS, f NDIN'” MY 9 FRIENDS: A GENTLEMAN EMP COMMERE “XLL SHOW You Your GENTLEMAN THATS A FINE FRIEND Yov'VE BROUGHT Home | HERE F'DINNER- DEED IT Is: = 2 < DRUNK P wry DoE GooFUuS" NEVER BoucHT A DRINK IN Hid LIFE —T TELL You HE'S A GENTLEMAN “ATS WOT HE 1S! DAWGoNIT! Guess IT NEEDS ANOTHER (S_ PLAYIN’ “THOSE “ STOVE _LIDS" ON “TH GRAPHO PHONES > tell, the actor, is to return to Vaudeville in an open-face sult. He'll | &o over his fighting past at the Royal next week. The “Pink” Haye: vegin promptly at row night at Healy's, L when it will end. ide Spong will enter vaude at the Colonial week after next. | Ruskay has written her a “Forty Winks.” A. Weil's production of “The respondent” will have its premier Stamford to-night. It will reach York in wbout ten days if all goes well. ‘The “Gala Night” of tho Seventy- Regiment will take place at the Theatre Feb. 20. Joe Klaw “beefsteak" will o'clock to-mor- | ‘There's no tell- its naine and hie to the Lenox, No, 76 West One Hundred and Twenty; fifth Street, to-night, where it will hold a banquet, beginning at mid- night, It is probable that five or six rows of seats will be taken out of the rear of the Forty-fourth Street Theatre's audtitorium during the summer and FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Bessic, do you know anything| bout the whereabouts of my little] new song called ‘Tender-Hearted Henry’? It goes like this “Teuder-brasted Heary coultn't eat an oyster raw He couldn't bill \ OO § FACT and FICTION By Hazen Conklin 8 CBDDODODHDODODODODDODODODOWDHDOGODODDHDODODDOGODOODOOQOIEGE Copyright, 116, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). | Experience cause} OUR OWN MASKED MARVELS. nly when they don’t fit @ Ute bug without "a painful | ® another angle too; | ot, Like gonervus | gentle Hut tender-bearted Henry ba: 4 re hip, wile ac 8 got ‘em on, ma‘am.” M4 — At First Hand. We're too tender hearted, | her question, reader, back partition mov rT7 O you come from New York?") fs arranging a bill of head-line wcts| (0% f English lady to a! Pell make the house tore ANNA ORR, POETESS! sald an English lady to oi iy considered too large for unky one traveling American, “I. sup HOPELESS HOPES. Dazie has closed her engage- withr “Maid in America” and hes urned to New York. She goes to aholas Rink each morning to Her husband, Cornelius, Fel- the com in “V: od bh i she admits it, Montgomery and .. Bhe named her first book of effort tractions now, Maurice and Florence Walton are in New York again after spending two weeks in Havana, Cuba, While That some one will put on the market @ self-starting spaghetti that don't have to be cranked all over the nely eh ae posed, of course, you came from Bos- Why did you think that?” asked he town Joss Willard made fam- > cas tho New York lady. floor—and that will throttle down owns the pond, you know. tow y Red Mill of Passion.” Every poem is| tho > ; iret us they met the President and Vi tee arate “ se ppow without slipping your clutch, fashion parade will be given President ‘of Cuba and showed th. ee Tmunranteed to be a lit cocktail ¥ use I supposed all cultivated,| Without slip! The book is to be published in Port. | intelli nt Americans came from Bos- » Where it's cool the 1 ihe Winter Garden to-morrow A. a mde“ in it will be # masked be some new dance steps which mad, all present bug their cyes in admira. tion and astonishment, land, 3 To “men who fail” add him who, round, coming home in the “wee sma’ hours,” back the hands of the year) ton.” “ut what in the world made you }think that? was the natural ques- Af you guess who she Greneker will kive you's ber cigars. FOOLISHMENT, | tic ‘che Dancing Instructors’ Axsociu- MINNIE WRITES A SONG. CORI ENT. weeeh ti dante know exacilvs fT think! to rearrange) The agent who never bothers you | or the Dancing Carnival at| “What chance,” writes Minnie M, ra. Uroorag it was a Boston lady who told me."—~ the striking mechai after you once have told him you vvrd Central Palace will gather up {of the Bronx, “would | have with my inere the £ Christian Register, don't want to take out any insurance tight just now. HELPFUL HINTS. We have @ strong hunch that one WOOWHEGHOGHODYOEGHGHOHAG|GI.AI|.AO.NODIOOOOWOAVOATOONOSOOSOSR When you hear a woman say: “My ws SOC OO COC OUD By Thornton Fisher 3 GDODOODGDHODOIOGE DHE PFODOSODGOHAGVOOOEDD way to avoid being crowded on the subway would be to carry a 6lice of limburger home in your pocket every busband is such a quiet man—you'd hardly know he's around the house,” you wonder if perhaps he hag learned night. But then would arise the prob-|tho futility of trying to get even a — lem what to do With yourself when|word in cdgewise, iE MAKES ; ng ee Ar faeet | ‘ you. got home Tact is waiting until your dinner , +: {companion has swallowed his gulp of Reet TRIED TO TELL p when HE \ UNMODIFIED MARATHON :|#0up before springing the point, of ee \ Acont see. (HIM Hou bat E) GETS MROUCH] |! For the World's Long Distance :|¥9UF joke. It also is “safety first’ L YOUVE FOUND 18 SHE Shoup EO east Bury | wit THAT 13 Chinning Champions! Hi SQUIRREL Foon. \ teense oD) R oq PrerurRe gy ee agers i] "How does a Texas steer?” I asked, HER -YOURE GOING vail Sate | PLAY LEADS - OF ) HE Wont WONT KNOW, |: HOWLAND HOBBLB 3] "A aarky sitting on a rail, HE ALWAYS CouRSE SHE Lisren Nar eu Who insists upon telling you about :/ Quoth he, as in the sun he basked: NOURE MAD -MAD~- NELLS (be ) most Hewe A y NEA HE \ Serer! pures |" “Or Massachusetts tail!” ir NT THE LAS 1, RAG WITH THinks tA ee i a - : MAD = Now FL Minute FoR ) BIE, Ott €TOR Knows ITAL) 9 li, i Painful Politeness OF AETIO! ; THars acct / CH NES, HES, | iGO TATA en CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE, Lovie Ge MIXED PICKLES. [ anotaor ploce Of cake, Pomesye| TBURNING away from the city where the bull-fight wae in progress, the : facie Focus know Whar (hey are etree aurea ey Ns a tralf, which led to the west. That night in talking sut—but they seldum talk. camp Freddy aroused them with a scream. 've been bitten!” he said, pain | -You seem to bi . i be | Lito is a succession of hurd knocks, | fer e Mite © suf-| By the Jight of their electric torches the boys dressed his wound and in hie tent found a horrid isn’ te esdrop oe 7 of It you don't belleve it eav srop the | faving frog Asie Goin the dots with a pencil line, beginning with dot No. 1 and traaing next » your wife entertains her |), Phe Lookout them in numerical order, Chapter thirty-six will be printed Tuesday.) bridge club, There's bound to be ao) — _ spams mamnhat, | @06@ COOOL DOG) A . eae | 2 nd She Took Him U; dome men are Kept bailing all rheir| ® WHAT STATE CAPITAL IS THIS? Ri cr wane nance een lived because they can't siop the | C®®G®®GQOOSOIOOHHOOWVI|YLSGOHOTDSHOOHOOHHOGWVWOLWOSOTSGIOVOOO I bad the ethan re owe feaks in thelr managership, | Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), @ married friend, “My cye was — oe = ts a oe ee bright, my step was firm, my head WHY GOATS LEAVE HOME, ONE HAIF OF ONE-HALF OF ONE-FIF TH OF was clear and my digestion was per- She teased her hubby till he said fect—atill Twas feeling rotten, jf me old my wife about i soon as I got |_ That she could buy a “little hat,” | | into the house, I groaned somethin, But when the bill's amount he.read tiful.. At. dinner I groaned og | It was eo “big’ it knocked him flat! more, though I was so hungry that T i had to keep right on eating in epite i} CHOW CHOW. of the missus’ protests, Winally she said | The memory of # man’s first calf "I'm afraid, dearie, that you won't }love ling 4s @ perfuiny of swebt be well enough to go to that dance | t-until ho one duy meets her with me towaight” And before I | fair, fat and forty | thought I blurted out | . § z | “Darn it, I'm afraid 1 will!? i F * 1 [couldn't explain to her that won , mew the as 4 S)'8!" | ®QBUBTRACT from the words the Bioture represent the number of lotters | t w > tonge, and she DIRECTOR mo! tug giels are “jus ying to meet" dicated by the fractions, combine tho subtracted lett form the | dru With her in spite A in ba) eed Uicus dead” afiey thy ttrodue: th city. y was De: 8, capital | iv rieks of paln.-Cleveland of Plat name of to-day's city will be publi with the next puzzle, | Dealer, fi as Ls ‘ | name of ons, of lowa, The 4