The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1916, Page 16

Ee RR eo eR SRR {RRR ET REED rt ire em Home and Comic Pa About Plays : and Players JENHIWTTA CROSMAN, Johnson and Fuller Mellieh ) have been engaged for the "Parkett production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” which will fotlow Macbeth” at the Criterion Theatre In two weeks, James K. Hackett Is to ihake his first appearance as Falstaff, Miss Crosman will pluy Mistress Pe Viola Alien, Mistress Ford; Mr. Johnson, Mord; Mr. Mellish, Page Reginald Sheffield, Robin; William vans, Bardulph; Henley Edwards, Cotporal Nym, ard Edward Kum merou, Ancient Pistol. The rehearsals ‘are going en at the Criterion. TWO AGED ACTORS DEAD. Heart Macase hus recently ¢ ‘the deuty of two old actors. Di Wilkes moocumbed at, No. 310 West Twenty-pinth Street, He was sixt Wour yoars old, His lakt professional ‘appearance Was in jrewester's Mill to The other victim of the malady was Charles D. Herman, who waa | und dead in bed at the Act und . He wae! . Herman had ted Nan O'Neil Whiteside, and “Exe joseph and Hi; ‘hrea” | and “A Daughter of Heave A BENEFIT AT THE HIP. An entertainment to be given to aid the Hebrew Infant Asylum is sched- | uled for Sunday evening at the Hip-| podréme. Among those who will par- | Ucipate are Helen Rook, Louis Hirsch, | Will Rogers, Lillian Shaw, Morton and Moore, the Dolly Sist » Gus Vatricis Tucker, Belle Baker, Yvette and wards, Litue Georgie Ryan, A. Nilson | | legist and composer: Maurice Varoka | Mile, Feindell, ail of whom have been appearing at ysher's Cabaret, in West Forty-fifth Street, have wigned with Clifford B. | Fisher, — w beginning — next | week, they will appear at a new inid- | night rendezvous at in, the Winter Garden Building. An announcement says the Fysher Cab- ares civ, REASSURING HENRY. Hevry’ Walthall, of “The Strange! Cane of Mary Page,” was approached | a mun friend, recently, Who sald: “IT “gwe' you ten dollars, don’t 1, “That's “Yes,” replied the actor. amount.” ee il, don't worry about it, old man,” said the friend, “I'll never for- So. it df 1 live to be a hundred years 1d." Goss! Mollie King has signed up with tae Film Corporation for three) - We 6 Musical Parshleys have a new | act on which good reports are being | received. Molly McIntyre has gone to London to play the title role in “Kitty Mac- K iMigm A. Brady and his lawyer, than Vidaver, are at French Lick Orrin | “°S’MATTER, POP?” c—~—- \TBo w Wow FLOOEY AND GEE IKE , WOTSA MATTER = WHY THE EXCITEMENT ? YES tT CAME IN HEF IN HERE AN’ BREAD -"CAUSE Springs. Alex, E. Beyfuss, an official of the California Motion Picture Company. ia in New York. “in one hundredth performance of 1 Look! Listen!” will be given to-night. A costume ball for the com- pany will follow on the Globe stage. ‘Harold Atteridge, the official libret- tist_of the Winter Garden, has gone 1@ Havana for a yucation, Mra, At- tevidge de with him. Wen Boyar, formerly H. H. Frazec's docfetary, has become wasistant to the | nfuhdger of the. studio of the Popular PHiys and Players Company, A_ professional matinee’ of Wesdvers” will be given Friday at the Garden Theatre ynder the auspices of tie Actors’ Mquity Association, Robert Whitworth, acting in films ‘at Sdn Antonio, Tex., has a broken arm. He was thrown from a horse iy. rth Mann and Kirah Markham Wave retired ‘from the cast of “The | Weavers.” Miss Mann is to appear n'a néw Broadway show and Miss Shiga hus gone to Savannah to “Tho | | Last” wants to enter the next wres- ting tournament, All right, John? You may do it this once, but don't you ever, ever ask us aga The San Diego, Cal, Union refers |to Clarence Willets, advance man, as “4 r of the f Kiaw &} "Tr f * Clarence dre will open in Ne ‘Dhe cast follows: Barrymore, O. P. Heggte, Stephenson, Charles Franc Lonergan, Thomas Loude vin films, Word from Sydney, Australia, sa igh Ward’ Broduetion of"! .. Thomas of “Alone at AFTER & SERIES OF Now, WHAT WAS WaT FUNNY STORY You WERE GOING VUS.MR. CUMPUS? _ DETERMINED ACTIONS. fifth entered t STORY TO MAKE GOOD HIS BLUFF PRETTY TT TELL IMNTRENCHING TO HOLD GROUND WOW FROM THE ENEMY TO GET MY “DOUGHNUTS Iv ese LIKE A CLEAN SANITARY oC BAKERY Y'KNOW IM A Te NUT ON HYGIENIC Becud) i Much interest is being shown in ests under the dl WHY-ER-1 IT gust STRUCK ME THAT MR. KILL JOY MIGHT NOT CARG TO STAN TO HEAR BEAT IT ONT TH = GYM, AXELIS HAVING \ We THERE'S ONE THING I'D a che wie 1 AN ARGUMENT Witt RATHER eA THAN CPERA, MORAN = ITS RICH! § ae A GOOD ARGUMENT = me Fol THs ! Pe As wee (HEY f Loot tt ( THATS LooKuT TH" F — (OH! THATS — ALLRIGHT! ALLRIGHT ! “THATS * WON'T EAT ANYTHING! a "FRITZ" — HE Keith, # tuk Albee and Martin Beck, place at the Century 'Thea- Vhat is it?” March 19 Potash and » the reply. RIGHT OFF THE BAT. ‘igs st week In} “Can you smoke on this baleon win Beds asked © Hippodrome patron of an “Just think,” cone the letter, ‘of this buppenioe within one hun- ‘ed minutes of Broadway!" last night * replied ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. Sere snd—The Universal, No, WINTER TRIBUTE MARCH 14, 1600 A a wy, New York, Clark, Rupert Harvey, Walter Geer,|the — forthcoming testimonial in| Broudway, Now Gunton ‘Fonge, John 8. O'Brien,| honor of Willlam Winter, It will be | Constant Reader—Jullan did not. Bec Clovelly, Watson White, Fi] held Tuesday afternoon, March 14, | He's about thirty-stx, Cecil Butler, Charles Dodsworth,|at the Century Theatre, Tyrone Walter McEwin and Warren F. Hill,| Power ts arranging another testi FOOLIGHMENT. monial to Mr. Winter, to be held on Wie onto it. IT HAPPENED IN EASTON, | ‘He Same day In Los Angele bs atlas tn ee An Baston ) man writes us to tak. Geeinatone FUND SHOW MARCH 19, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, the Easton ub recently. Wour| The annual bene! A “He swallowed a tape measure.” men were playing pinochle when al und, given by the vaudeville in “pia it hill him?" fon of A, Paul “Sure! Me died by inehes."* UVERE Zt Bur UNDEFEATED a WEAR CRUTCHES UNDER GO AHEAD-SPRNG THEIR. EARS THEI IT- You SWAPPED BRAINS AE LiWPINc! CHAIRS WIT ME . —— TO YELL 11, Now TELL IT- mM Ind LONG~ —_-—— THEY MAY Have BEEN WELL. BRouéHr VP Bur THEN BoTH wee TAKING DOWN & Pec! oat RATED COMICAL JOKE { DONT knou)} O hinever 5 far venpen) 9 DO You kNJOY LANNY? yas Pr {POP Coen ~UBaLtst}S) Fower the boy, “but you! | | | | PODODOOOSO DAC AHPOOOOOO® DATAAOTOOAG PErPeER AND SALT CII DITDOODOOOOOOS ~ Passed by Hazen Conklin. COpsright, 1016, by The Proms Publisting Uo, (The New York Biting Worl) SOFT ANSWERS. The suits he wore were dark in shade When first he courted Nell; He thought them dressy and, besides, He didn’t know, ieaet Se aciinee it euitstarel lightest gray, For light-gray hardly shows The powder rubbed upon it from “Two heads-are better than one” is no mavrim to spring on a man who is subject to boils, A monster is the Pink Baroo; | hope he never visits you. He'd never drive a man to drink, But drive him from it, | should think, Cigar ashes are “good to kecp the moths out” only when “company” drops them on the parlor rug. He found his wifie sitting up break of day; op to weigh his words,| But gave himself away. THREE OUT! Ldvten, how's this; caught in fiction stuff—the italics are mine Sinclair expressed his views his hear ers found them freighted with signiti-| vance. They bore the stamp of con- victlon.” Having delivered his words by ex- press and freight the stamp was stuck on to ulso send them by parcel post. | There's many a slip 'twirt the little | rug and the parquet floor, (Contributed by M. M.D.) | y did you stop running your)! “masked marvels"? J know a fow| people you could use; not that I con- sidur them marvels, but that I feel they would look better masked, (Contstbuted by T. ¥.) Talk all you want to about the comforts of married life, but a bach. clor can ease into bis evening slippers without having to get back Into his shoes half an hour later to run out and post a letter for his wife. thou; he to cheer me up or | feel sad: jen't put my picture in tobagco ad! You might try a bun been kuown to ache un Miltor “Soft Anewern,”* What is good for a headache? ao Heads have from having “Soft Answers," Do you find the cube root of an asteroid by multiplying the perpe dicular or by correlating the parallell- ograms and subtracting the seeyelicas in equal divisions’ B. Neither, % W375 zo 19 19 8ODODOOOODS $8 KID IDEAS [JOOOCO0O00 You go south four boo i turn right to first naragraph, measure SN { depth as against width, intensify ob- Nauely, strain through a aleam sheet and spray on infected area through a fine cord. THE GREAT DOT MYSTERY | PORMPOOODOODOIOODAAOIOOAG ge of THE a WORLD, Wednesday: February 23) 1916 __ By C. M. | Cc. M. Payne ~> —_— wear THA Spo Dine PATI 0 oo OM - AY ToL FRANK AY COULON'T'SEE How HE. COULD KNOCK OUT WILLARD - So HE SHowed Me ttt WELL - WoT ALL THIS a fe ~ 209000010001 OOOODDGOOOOHOO By Ferd G. Long $ COVDAGOIDGDOODHOVDODIOOOD \ y ‘ou Have BEEN A VERY NAUGHTY BOY, , WILLIE, ) Chb\e MUST PUNISH — et _-———_— \ OBOORX i fOU- ALTHOUGH DOING) | ea PAING ME ¢ | | as" AS MucH ! AS Ae DOES + WELL, MOTHER) |. \ IF 17S’ Gon? TO T, BOTH OF, To Tatts tor } SHARE, IF Yout, | \GIVE UB ‘Tours: | a TOOK OO@MRO@MMBNEK vex CHAPTER FORTY-8IX, ra HE boy scouts took the flying \ fish that came aboard in the \ squall and added it to their ? | collection of specimens. A shadew “ fell on the deck. “An aeroplanel” | | they all cried at once. One of the boys took the captain's telescope and on looking through it saw a _— (Join the dots with | @ pencil } beginning with the dot No, 4 yee following them in numerical order, Vorty-seven will be printed Too Early to Tell. WO colored teains. were playing, ' j and « white man, who hae ars y thing else to do, stopped to ‘ el the same, After huving watched the playing a few }he approached the cuptain of ees n Of one of the teams and asked; “Ar t © ing 4 wood game?” acd uN; yes, sah, we d one bei \ MD ng a good game,” replied the cape ain What's the score now?! asked the i i White inan ’ ‘sixteen to nothin’ now, in thejr \ a favor,” was the reply, elt ¥ thoy are outbatting you, aren’ ) * sald the white man, ! 4 I don’t know, sah, for We ail ain't been to bat yet,” replied th Concordia Kansan,» Nees