The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1916, Page 14

eae NS OH RTT I Home and Comic Page of =. EVENING WUKLD, Monday. February 14, 1| “’S’MATTER, POP 1916 By C. M. Payne POP?” we we we we we we we we wa | ne 16 | \MATINEE Sa & with, | YOUNG MAN Give THis | SAMPLE To , | YOuR Coon The gallery in New York theatres, Jeng depopulated by the popularity of She moving pictures, appears to have @ome back into ite own. However, @e “gallory cod" of other days isn't fm evidence now. In hie place is the ‘well-dressed, quiet theatregoer who te fooking for the best theatrical bargain @ be found. Techniocally, it isn't the ‘Sgaliery” nowadays; it's the “second and the old unreserved benches and hari chairs have been @igplaced by upholstered seats which | may be reserved, just as may be the hairs on the other floors. Women inate in the crowds that = their steps. A canvass of the eleven New York theatres controlled ‘by the Messrs. Shubert, taken Satur- day t, showed practically capac- ery audiences at the Casino, J WeRE's MY PREPOSITION MR. RICKARD. NLL mated my MAN AXEL AGAINST SOME Good GUY FOR THE J | SEMI-FINAL TO THE WALLARD+ MORAN FIGHT: ALL WE WANT (S Street, Comedy, Maxine Pilott’s and -fourth Street. The women out. number the men three to one, Hear ‘em colt’ TotT, IN THERE “TEX ? i Tuer’ AXEL TAKIN’ A"FALE OUTA , HIS NEW SPARRING Pena ~— ' | ninth Street, Forty-sighth } I MERE HARLAN SHINES, an Him OVER? pee A Lo tadreen \ HIS MIDDLE N. One of the biggest items in Otis MIDDLE NAME. ‘Marian's stock in tradete his whist ‘which he invariably uses when play- } ing comedy roles, Jeas Hampton, ‘who is in charge of the Long Branch y friend of the actor. He | ether day Jess and Charley met is Branch. Jess!” said Charley. “Te Charley!" said Jess. “Harlan's gone into film acting.” a. ought a moment, then re- he ought to be pretty Sea in the ailent stuff, but I'd 00 bim in the whistlin’ drama.’ FIELDS FINDS CROOK ACT. t Lew Fields, having been an employ- @r of actors for years, likes to see them earn what they are paid. While r) ing in vaudeville in a Middle festern city recently he noticed an act that he considered not only m fore but carelessly done, Writing his = Charley, here, he added thir “Tell Bob Harrie there is a crook ‘on the bill with us this week,” Harris was curious to know what Mr. Fields meant, so he wrote him @nd asked. A postal card was re- @sived in reply bearing this line: 260 from the manager WOTS “THIS IL HEAR “Mose” = ONLY MARRIED “TWO. WEEKS AN' SEPERATED, P - Y'SEE “TWAS LIKE DIS Bose —TH FuST WEEK Done GIB MAH WIFE i Fo HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES AN' We LIVED FINE ON (T= YASSAH FINE # Fise wuP LooKS LIke he DDNT ¥ FiaurRe 75 ; DE NEXT WEE! SLIPPED HER ‘Wee? HOUSE ON — me HOW DAT WOMAN Me OuT— CALLED MEANEST NAMES AW SPOILED HER DE Fust WEEK ; | FILM DAY MAY 15, Monday, May 15, has been chosen as day on which the motion ploture industry all over the United States ‘Will assist the Actors’ Fund, Exhib- Store will be requested to contribute Berton of their receipts on that di film people expect to give th fund $00,000. | MISS WEBBER PLEASED HIM. | You never can tell when luck will ome your way in the theatrical busi- Ress. Florence Webber, soprano, who $ as been waiting for a'good role in a Broadway production, attended } “Victor Herbert given ny the | Claridge Mr, Herber asked her to sing and she re- sponded with selections from “Naugh- ty Marietta,” in which opera she @iarred on tour one season. Ji heard her and waa so impressed with her voice that he sent for her the following day and promised her ‘the prima donna role in his next mu- production. CHAPLIN'S TAX. a ert Chaplin gets that yearly of $600,000 for his services in nd the chances are he will— income tax will be $26,870. Now up in this line: “And a cast com-|7. Mary Anderson de Navarro may|mover in the organization of that | 2M OSOSOWOOS Mensurate with the importance of the| come from Italy to attend. concern, 1s out of It. It is stated fur- | @ “CHO w- Cc ‘H 0 w’’ production. To-night's the night that Eva Tan-|ther that Mr Lambart at the time] @ oo ceeeeeeeoaoooOoOee a dag P Sho |of his withdrawal had no official po- COWLES SHOVELS SNOW. |e yi% as soNere, musical comedy ane | sition "ihe company, ence Copyright, 1016, br The Prow Publishing Uo, (The Now York Erning World), Will do so at the Bronx Opera House |aition with the company, hence no n GALL RNOLGN TO as Julius Cowles, who plays character|in “The CHrl Who Smiles.” office 1s left vacant. By Hazen Conklin. SOFT ANSWERS. [sures toy. Cort Aqcian STAY in THE Mouse AND} comedy parts in Metro pictures, suf-| Grace Griswold of the Washington |_ A Motion Picture National Defense S | KEEP Quiey— You'd BETTER LIE DOWN Sete seo some of his thousands of im-| fered a nervous breakdown and bis Sq >| red | Lea, has b amzed by Lewis - 01 ea yuare Players will be an honored ue has been organized by Le’ OOD REST. I WOULON'T THINK MAfors imitate that. ayes gave out recently. His physi guest of the Playwrights’ Club Fri- J; alenick for the Purpose: ot keep, [eee You To Go oT DooRS cian advised ‘him to give up film wor! vening. 8} make an ad- afore the public, nue Bb Py PRODUCE SWAN FAROE, | fonporsclly cad tag Cul ot domes a | gay cvenine: She will an films, the necessity for adequate na- | @A& . H. Frazee has accepted for tm-|he could. Julius joined one of the] Waiter McNamara has become sce- | tional defense. Clara Kimball Young | « mediate production a new farce by|olty's snow shovelling squads. He is|nario editor for Mirror Films, Inc, | Will be President of the League and | Up, | Mark Swan called “Nothing but the| now No. 6,389 in Squad No. 12. When| Ho was responsible for ‘Traffic in| Mr. Selznick Managing irector. Truth.” Rehearsals will begin this| he isn't tossing snow he writes poetry | Souls” and “Ireland a Nation.” President Wilson has been invited to week. for the magazines, However, the oity| “Defense or Tribute,” a “prepared. | become the Honorary President, t —_—— isn't to blame for that, ness” film, will open an engagement j WINTER GARDEN DARK. — at the Park Theatre to-night, It ts ‘The Winter Garden will be dark un- GOSSIP. fald to be very instructive, G. A. KR. AND PLAY OOO (Aw motner! WHATSA USE A atine “Ohow.-Chow:"* What will cause the warts on a full-grown dill pickle to disappear? FOOLISHMENT. ee H.M. R. | @1 Thursday evening, when “Robin-| Wiliam Bartlett Reynolds will go] men and Spanish-American War vet- | Patter "Show: Che son Crusoe Jr.” will open at that| ahead of Ethel Barrymore. erans Will seo tt, and Rose Coghlan ; pape Please decide a bet. A bets you | . ‘There will be no Invitation| The Pallas Pictures Company has|is scheduled to recite “The Charge = Little drops of w are right. B bets you are wrong. ress rehearsal, Modesty seems to| made a filin of “David Garrick.” of the Light Brigade” et the initial] FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Little grains of keret! Which wins? 'T, FOSTER. e keynote in the show's an- 1. Wolfe Gilbert ts tn Chicago in} presentation. Bhe—I've seen the snows of just Save the Good Old inkro! Some say I'm “not right,” but they jtorong me. You' u have to ip a coin, At last we have met up t0ith @ MAN} Lane cnom-Chowe for whom asparagus holds no terrors. ent. Al Jolson'’s name is| the interest of his songs, From a lot of dents. of course, but An announcement from the offices | twenty-one wintors. The testimonial to William Winter! of Mirror Films, Inc., says that Capt.’ He—How many winters have you will _be held at the Century on March Harry Lambart, who was a prime spent in the South? 1 the oth- Tam an copngreng @nd to pass a . OOVOOODD | He ie a sword swallower. quiet evening I read your column. 1 have been following you every night, By Thornton Fisher 3 | cares Wy nee Jon's Gon't soem to’ get you, ‘Cant ONCE G YOANN OFAN OANA DHOOM OOO OIOO@O GCS) A “movie star” perhaps may have | 30U. do something to make it seem funny? Li literary betters, ; But ludae him by hie dally mail |, 7h@ dose eave Wy I don’t make it me! | sunny pretty aoon Ae'll make tt seriou a hee "man of tetterw for me.and then perhapa you'll get me. | Some men clear joar their throat to| g speak their mind—and some reverse the process. HITTING THE SPRUNG BorRD| FoR & YE S- CERRY, ? MISS HINKLEMAN- NES. YES OF WELL SEND Simmy DOWN TO DINNER _ \ with HER! SONY tT MGT BE ONE. OF US IF WE Cort} Some Ss Got’. TO BE HER DINNER PARTNER AND GOTTA GET HYPE OuTA THE Fx HES 1h OVER THERE WITH THAT JON- TACT TIPS. Never ask @ man with a stiff neck to tell you what time it is by the clock on the Metropolitan Tower. JUST HAND Simey OVER TO ME AND WareH YOUR UNCLE DUDLEN. YoUVe Gor TO BE CAREFLL SO ) HE DONT TUMBLE, \ WIG THOUeH! (Covertem, 1016, by the | Waser Srafieate,) CHAPTER FO} FORTY-TWO. UR searching party at tmet reached the schooner with the wild duck and the sea-turtle, They all had vi of » hot supper As they climbed aboard they were greeted by appetizing odors and strange sounds from the galley. They peered in and saw a—— TALWANS SAS (0 ISNT THE HaNosoMe MAN Sener uno | | \ MAKES THE BEST/| | HUSBAND. MR- A Mar ts merely @ phonograph with @ generous assortment of records, YOU'VE — MET ‘EM. They say “the Mayflower would, have foundered at ite dock sf they'd | | all been aboard,” but—woll, ail the \ships Germany has submarined (DEFENSIVE FORCE MINING THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THE REDOVBT TO CHECK AN ENEMY 1 | wouldn't stay afloat with the people who, having had merely a perfunc- tory introduction to dome lime: | lighted celebrity, go around repeat~ ling “whet so-and-so said to me” with Jan abandon of topic that could have | |been the fruit only of @ life-dtong ac- | | quaintanos. |, WHY GOATS LEAVE HOME. He had a million left to hi ‘and planned trail of emoke, He reached the bank to get his coin | | “Kad just then he awoke! | | Sometimes burdensome current ex- | pensesa are the result of extensive | family connections. 6NORT SEEDS. | Most people who think they are, funny are, | ‘The only way to get some people's ; Ylewpotnt is to look eros: yed, (Join the dots with @ pencil Mine, beginning with dot No, 1 and tracing them in numerical order, Chagas forty-three will be printed Wednes- | day.) | _ | Safety First. T a Sunday service in one of « Georgia colored churches ¢/ preacher was giving an ¢, quent discussion of the creation, the congregation was evidently ly. interested. , de Lawd nade de d arth, and all that in he exclaimed vehemently. He made man—He made him, dust of de earth, and stood "| | aguinst a fence to dry.” | At thts point Deacon Jobnr/ ‘buck of the room (| Jackson, who of | ere fone “Put dat man out! ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE SUPPLIES. Ciswerz — ++ * _-| | euch questions as dat would ow? z [de s'aoleay 1p de wi