The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1916, Page 18

NT Te I Home and Comic Page of THE EVENING WORLD, Friday: February 18; 1916 “S*MATTER, POP?” By C. M. Payne we wa we we “Because ITS NOT “PROPER TotHAve THE | PuBLIC SEE You | : Witt YouR Z PAJAMAS on, ° To “3 aD Cy | HM “Intest™ regarding Albert T | 4 Courville, the London the-| atrical manager, and his New) York plans, te report that he will) De interested in a new theatre to be built on Broadway, somewhere be- tween Forty-fifth and Miftieth Streets, hefore the 1916-17 season is very far advanced. Arthur Voegtlin and Will- | jam J. Wilson of the “Big Three,” who were eliminated from the former | Hippodrome organization by the! Messrs, Shubert a year or #0 ago, ‘ere said to be concerned in the plan. Mr, Wilson returned from London re- cently. While abroad he did some | producing for Mr, de Courville, and | he te etill associated with that man- ager. Since arriving here he has been active in the interests of Mr. de Courville, 8. L., Rothapfel once had an idea he'd build a theatre on Broa@way, not far from Fiftieth Street, but he gave it up and the interests he represented acquired the old Hammerstein's Victoria, now called the Rialto, The do Courville | report says the London manager and is American associates are figuring on the same plot Mr. Rothapfel had in mind. K. @ E. ACCEPT MELODRAMA. Kiaw & Erlanger bave acquired a new melodrama by Hayard Velller, author of “Within the Law,” and whl produce it early next season in one of their New York theatres, ‘The play is as yet unnamed, The production will be made on an elaborate scale. In the three acts there will be no fewer than twenty-four scenes. The theme of the melodrama concerns a phase of New York life. FRIARS’ FROLIC MAY 28. Tt has been decided that the Friars will give their New York porformance SMALL VOICE oF One ALMA IKE Onn rtahe. 10146 Prety Putaeehine Co. OF, T, Evening Wer) Now GET OUT THERE AND SKATE AROUND WITH MORAN AND KEEP HIM AMUSED So HELL, ENJOY HIS TRAINING WORK, YER DAWGONNED LUCKY Y DON'T HNFTA BOX DON'T ARGUE Me! | AY TELL YOU AY VOULD RATHER BOX wITH HIM - SEE et? of their forthcoming Frolic on May 28. An effort is being made to get the Century Theatre for this date. After the New York performance the troupe will make a flying ten-day trip through the East and Middle West. | SENNETT WAS DIRECTING. During the time he was with Wober and Fields, Willie Collier, in one of | their little farces, choked Joe Weber hundreds of times, showing Lew Fields how to do it artistically. In California recently Mack Sennett was irecting the filming of this scene, with Weber and Fields and Collfer in it as of old. When Willie began to choke Weber, Sennett stopped him. “Wait a minute,” sald Sennett. “I'll whow you how that should be done.” A FARCE ABOUT SERVANTS. Leffler & Bratton have accepted for 4 Frodwetion a new farce entitled * and Queens.” The theme deals Zo OG WELL 1S THIS why my DEAR pos A ie ge ALL THINGS ARE. PURE ! ings : with the much-discused servant 2 question. wet Sz" = GOSSIP. | Avita Sanchez is going into fm| work. John Mason is to star in “Common Clay” next season. | ‘Wallis Clario has been added to the cast of “Justice.” Grace La Rue will give a costume wong recital at the Longacre March 13. Margaret Nybloc will sail to-mor- row for London to appear in “Kitty MacKay.” Edith Randolph of “The Weavers” has written a play in collaboration DOOOOOOODOHDOOWDIHODHSGGOOOOGOOOSS: with Thomas G. Springer. Charley Chaplin says his march, ‘which Sousa’s Band will play Sun- day, 1s “The Peace Patrol.” Clara Kimball Young is due to ar- rive in New York from Cuba to-night. ‘The Neighborhood Players will give their last performances of “The ‘Waldies” to-morrow and Sunday, Oliver D. Bailey's play, heretofore called “Her Price,” has been renamed “Pay Day.” Nina Morris will be seen in vaude- ville soon in a playlet called “Pre- paredness,” written by Charles Hor- wwitz Mons. Alexander, the rotund maitre @hotel of the Plaza's grill room, has become the proud father of an eight- | Frolic’ girls; Belle Blanche, Barney Bernard, the Dolly Sisters, Morton and Moore, Alice Lioyd and Will Rogers. Virginia Pearson, Fox star, is writ- Ing @ book called The Book of Knowl- |@age of the Movies.” In it she will tell what the director sald to her when she was first “called down.” But \she won't tell what she sald to him, you bet your life! Heywood Broun, who is to marry |vanced the happy day to June a |hopes to be able to argue it still closer. Lillian Wiggins, once known as a stage beauty but who hasn't been acting for several neasons, is appear- ing with the Leap Year Girls at Joan Lydia Lopoukova, says he has ad-| subject pound boy. He 1s passing around the | Sawyers. Seiditional hend-li tee taal ‘Kaditional hend-line acta tor the a Geventy-first Regiment show at the “BLUE ENVELOPE” CABT. Idberty Theatre Sunday night are Richard Lambert has selected the *allyn King and twelve ‘Midnight cast for his production of “The Blue Envelope.” In it are Walter Jones, Franklyn Ardell, John Park, Edwin Fosberg, Ralph Nairn, John L. Kear- ney, Ford Fenimore, Ethel Valentine, Beth Franklyn, Carrie Reynolds and Belle Theodore, MANN CONDEMNING FILMS. Louis Mann, who is playing through the Southwest in “The Bubble,” is de- livering lectures frequently on the of moving pictures. He ts telling the people he “deplores the craze” and assuring them that the film utterly fatis to portray characters with the human touch and emotion that the trained artist of the epoken “In one night one of these peo- ple can be created a star.” Outside of all that, however, Louts Mann‘s all right. A. HAS A NEW ONE. 000000 000000.00000000000 000000000000 0000000000000) A. Beckerman, our Brooklyn corre- spondent, has thought of another joke. In a note to us he states with- out fear of contradiction that Mike Gibbons, no matter how clever he may be, could never land a punch on bis (A.'s) brother. An explana- tion being in order, A. says bis broth- er works in @ hat factory and is a first-class blocker, A, doesn't work in a hat factory. Wonder if Mike could land—ob, well, let it go! FOOLISHMENT. He {old « etoey o'er the FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Magician (to man in audience)—Do you feel the egg in the bag, sir? Man—No, but I'm not feeling very well to-night NO USE TALKIN, \ MR. MOSBN, (VE ) GOT TO FiGuRE ON [ RENTS BEIN’ PAID PROMPTIN ON \THE ISIE YouRE THREE WEEKS (N ARREARS- "LL HAVE TO HAVE THE @PaRTMENT IE FSV YOU DONT MAKING DIPLOMATIC CVERTURE S TO @VERT THREATENED HOSTILITIES. WIFE - HERE. TRY ONE OF MN Fev— ORITES- | HOPED Youd OROF (N- 1 SAO YOUD UNDER STAND WHER 1 EXPLAINED WHY 1 HAONT PAO ae OU “SIT RIGHT pown. MR- FOR You! CORFLINGER.-WERE SO GLAD YOU CAME- WONT YOU SIT DOWN AND LET ME PLeY A RECORD By Hazen Conklin. —Phernrak tut of your SHORTHAND VERSE. Walter, Falter; Altar, Halter! Some men are so like steam pipes that the minute they begin to warm up they start knocking. | Some women do not want the vote The way it’s now designed. ‘They know that once thelr ballot’s cast They cannot change their mind! They say every dog has Ms day, but the gay dogs seem to prefer to stay owt at night. She polsed the hammer, swung it down— the blow own! Many a velvet word has a sand- paper thouyht behind 4, (Qoutrivated by B. RT.) ‘The “L" guard ts @ person who Has queer linguistic incl{nations. He talks like other humans do | Except when he is calling stations, | Many a rough deal ts put acrose by | smooth talk, which has nothing to do |with the fact that some men grow very blunt only when they have an edge on, ATTABOY! | (Contributed by A, L, McB.) What & man THINKS he knows about a woman is ttre tires But what he REALLY knows ts 000000000000 No, Rollo, the man you saw coming out of the apartment house carrying the big paper bag was not necessarily returning to the butcher's with an unsatisfactory roasting chicken, He may have been rushing a very satis- factory duck. rm with love for her, eet were cold; F came—her feet were warm— t The reat need not.be gold, THE PERISCOPE © 0000000 000OOO0000 DODOOQOO® DOOOQAE . Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (Th York Evening World), SOFT ANSWERS. Reltor “The Periacope:" laving just learned that monkeys have fleas, I write to ask you if it i advisable to have one for a pet? a N.LT. ion’t quite get you. If monkey and not a flea, advise you to watt until 1917, as this is “leap” year, If you mean a flea, you will find plenty that will jump at the chance any old time. Faitor “The Periscope Having been offered a Job as col- umnist on the Gowanus Gazette and! being without experience, I write to ask you what rules you conform to in your column? A. 8. K. For your guidance I am printing two column rules to-day, one on one side } thie paragraph and another on the 8 KID IDEAS COOO® DOOOWMOGDOGOOOWOAINANG HOBIE Look, MoTHEr! TEACHER SAYS IF You DO THIS TEN TIMES EVERY MORNIN? ITLL MAKE You BIG AN’ STRONG! (Copyright, 1916, by the Wheeler Syndicate, CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR, E schoo which the scouts . jad renamed the “Dotty Dot,” wae soon eailing merrily weet- ward. The first night at sea was a About nervous one for all the boys. 112 o'clock they heard a n hold. “A sto " they whispered, They id and there they found a (Join the dots with a pencil ling beginning with dot No, 1 and fofiow=, ing them in numerical order. Chapw ter forty-five will be printed Mon- day.) a oe He Could Bluff, Too. HERE are a lot of four-lushers who go through life without learning that four-flushing @ fine art. Such are beneath con- tempt. But one has great admira- tion for those few who have mastered the game. “If a man called me a liar," serted one of such, “I'd sail in lick him if he weighed three hundred pounds!" “Well, you big bluff,” answered one who was tired of listening, “I call you, right here and now, iar “Bluff yourself!" came back the artist without a moment's hesitation, “You don't weigh more than ome« ty and you know what I ead» Cleveland nee You're