The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1916, Page 14

} | | | } | } | } PET Home and Comic Page of THE EVENING WORLD, Monday, February 28. 1916 | About Plays and Players BILLIAM H. CRANE, who was) W given a equare meal by about | 600 of his friends at the Wal-/ dort-Astoria last night, told a couple | ‘of stories, in an encore speech, which really deserve attention hero. One ‘Conovrns a tour of Robson and Crane! medo years ago. The company | reached @ town that had always given thie attraction capacity business, and . Crane went to the box office to Jook at the sale. It was distressingly small. Going to the stage, he was) asked th ount by Mr. Robson. “Guess,” suggested Mr. Crane. | “A thousand dollars.” ! | “Eight hundred.” one” , “Five bundred.” “No. It's two hundred and fifty. I @an't understand it.” | “T can,” grunted Mr. Robson. “It merely means they have got onto us| ‘hie season Mr. Crane heads a five- aggregation. When it reached Bronx Opera House last week | house electrician asked the man where the company’s it was. "We haven't got one,” replied the y's electrician, i t!” came from the house elec- | nd no spotlight? | zy.” | , (DEAS FREQUENTLY CHANGE. | Frequently a playwright will choose | \ & mubject for a pi go to work on) @ and turn out a finished product swhich in no way touches on the orlg- | final idea, This bas happened in con- | Meotion with the writing of a play by | Rol Cooper Megrue and Irvin Cobb. | Crigirally the theme of the play was | based on Mr. Cobb's story “The Es-| cau ot Mr. Trimm.” Now, when the , y-drama is finished, the Cobb @tory is absolutely out it. An en- Solr new fundamental {Wea has been A MEAN MAN. | ‘There was 4 mean man in the audi- at the Palace Theatre Saturday mn, Odiva and her trained @eals were on the bill. One of the meals is a singer. At one point in the fact this seal—a very graceful one, by the way—was ordered to display her powers, and she let out a coll of high notes of the soprano va- ‘ . Then it was that the mean gman got in his déadly work. ae ha!” he said so that every- within a radius of ten feot | hear. “An imitation of Mrs, singing, eh?" ‘ BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Bald Silas McGuggin in Peeweeplo's “Tt won't be so long till we hear it once more. I mean the rich Fumble that falls on the ear when poe] wagons arrive with their . I'm fond of the banners that |. I'm always right start the 444. 1 missed lots o' sighis just from wetchin’ that kid. I bought him some an’ red lemonade, W: e concert Pal ‘Twas worth a whole million to that boy shout.” Jed Peeweeple inrbaA inc, tancy brown jer aoa the Willlam Winter testimonial at the{ceiving the most applause at “ out a two for a quarter cigar. tf le gave it to Silas and said, “Hav @ emoke!” Old Si thought he scented | “2% two new songs in “Robinson| Winter G ry a, Crusoe Jr." F. 30! je looked it all) ‘Jullan Eltinge has made hia mother|Woif and Channing Pollock If they A present of a four-story house in| want to write the book and lyrics for =. and found it was good, but Pee- reeple’s motive was not understood. if Widder O'Filanni- | wha ae said Jed. ! YIDDISH PLAY To Tour. | sury of the People's y large sum, The tour Tnited States and Cana- Ga will be visited ei | Gossip. Handsome souvenir will be distribu: ted in the audies KNOW | AINT OFFERED TO Go! HE KNEW HOW MUCH GAS HE HAD. AN’ LET ME Crank MY ARM OFF HERE BEFORE HE CAME To AN! SAID, “MO USE. JiM-WERE ouTA cas!" DISPATCHING & COURIER TO A SLPPLN Base FOR AMMUNITION TO CONTINUE & Ni DRIVE _— = “*S*"MATTER, POP?” w we we w w we w we we By C. M. Payne NouNG MAN ITs ABOUT Time You. Were) iMDIN' OUT To Tet THE Time uv DAY AY KNOW VOT FOR = ARNICA! COURT PLASTERS' | BANDAGES ‘ -- AY KNOW % GRE, Ths 15 SOFT! MORAN WANTS AKEL ‘To ( BACK TO SULPHUR SPRINGS AN BE HIS SPARRING PARTNER AGAIN, HE SAYS HELL GWE US MORE. DOUGH “Too! {UL TELL AXEL. SEE AXEL , MORAN LIKES You SO MUCH HE WANTS TOU COME BACK “TD Him! AN’ WE'LL RAISE YER PAY VGer Ya BACK! WELL, WETTA YA SALE TWINK OF THE EXTRA DOUGH HE'S GONNA q@we ust Y CAN USE. “THAT DOUGH FOR é — FoR- —ImM WIS os RAKES WHY WHEN “CL Day You're OUT “THEY DONT Bevieve ge Me ! THEY Ay MUST cee You! I CANT KEEP “TH' NISVTOR® FROM Comin’ IN oR! HIM *. AW! scanty i ~ ATTA Mn} | On iN lan ndorstood. | doventy-ftth Street, z sre you thinkin’ off” Si: | ganger & Jordan have arranged for he J. C. Williamson Company, Ltd. n that no musical com- iT } \ i “ . ‘ FOOLISHMENT. NO MAN CAN SERVE MARRIED MEN HOLD to produce “Romance” in Australia,Jedy is complete without 5 |New Zealand and South Africa. if A boar SA ae: Pe tides tHe TWO MASTERS— THEIR JOBS? H G A 3 Ane “The | wi st Vin, the Yiddish theat- | 1 ,G78# George's performance of “The |waltz ducts. nas agreed to contrib | he | ean and @ contralto, Carl Gantvort and ;| Mabel Carruthers has joined the} Kita Dane “| Harry Davis stock company In Pitts. |first appearance in America, burgh as second woman, 3 David Herblin, rece and the largest! stahl, has gone to Worcester, Mass.,| She will visit five Loew theatres and t programmes | y KNOWN WHEN MR JONES ONIN BOUGHT) THREE CALLONS, THAT (T WOLLONT BE ENOUGH! WHN DIONT You GET ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. ‘astles . eG vere - in the Air” the Messrs Shubert will] Katz—1 don't know where Anna Q ; T BeniGaisg’ to-night Al Jolson, willl Uyete Mee tene eee RUMATE will] Kate —t don’t know where Anna G. PEPPER AND SAL1 KID IDE den production. hat ak ietirer, OOOO ODS ORO OOOO SOO QOD OOOOOOWE Ziegfeld jr. has asked Rennold| yf, 13, Evans—Write the engaging department of the film companies |» order that they may have the baby’s address on file, Passed by Hazen Conklin. | Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publidhing Oo. (The New York Evening World IF IT 1S TRUE THAT —HOW IS IT THAT. the next “Follies."" fenry W. age is about to shat- Henry W. ter the tradit tenor and a soaring soprano singing In “Pom Pom," which at the Playhouse to-night willlopens at the Cohan to-night, the two a benefit for the Guest House | waltz features are sung by a baritone They say no mands a hero in the eves of his wife, yet look at the des-} perate chance he took when he married her! } This will be Miss Dane's Now wifie gets no sleep at ail with those high boots her feet adorning: She gets them both unlaced at night in time to lace them up next morning! Marguerite Snow, Metro film star, with Roselix to be the busy person. toenight. By Oune w apring Mins, To the assembled | 7M,PR*T Ahh gen Mire Mere she's a liar." iy with the Poti Stock Company | make an multitudes th Spere is playing Patricia Col- | the 's old role in the sketch “A Reg- | (East Business Man” for Billy Gaxton,|the Fulton ft hton model re- Avenues), They say “a duck will find its way to water,” but you never, never sau he theatres aro| Was heard to murmur i jone chased to it! eley, the Palace , the De Kalb and FROM THE SHRSTNUT TARE: y samen Madison ) = ae (Fulton and Nostrand| “What is your husband's income?” “Three rousing cheers for married life!” cried happy Peter Plum; | “Usually about 3 A. M. “I have no quarrels with my wife, for she is deaf and dumb!” A well-balanced mind av on a slippery sidewalk @ HAM AND EGGS. He bowed his head and in his arms hi He stood his ground and didn’t run, b pattercd face he hid; oh! the egge—they did! YEAH, | Now! THE LAST TIME | HAD SIK GALLONS PUT It AN! N'ONLN et os SOFT ANSWERS. ITS NOTHING IN MY YOUNG LIFE, misTeER, BOT THE GARAGE | YoURE TALKIN | ABOUT AINT GoT FAitor ‘Soft Anawerm:"* NO MORE 6AS~ | Is it good taste to kiss a girl the DONT MAKE ME THE GOAT THIS TIME - Go FOR HE HEN the iceberg and the walrus had passed, the boys went to . During the night the MOREL FELLER BOUGHT firat time you meet he Dt p. | schooner struck the shore, When day ft ‘ HIS LAST DROP Not tf she has too much powder on (2, 144 |came they found themselves on an TWO HOURS AGCO-]| | % 2 153064 “143 island. Alongside was a wreck, On is UP ee (VAS THERE ANI | | itor “0 Anonem luo is PSV eal [the beach they saw Freddy'e goat, 4 > s What is the proper way to hotl a + 157 194, MORE! \ set NAIM ants BISUREC DCS cer be ae ‘ay sg '?7 141 {bleating pitifully, and with him wi a boiled alive and some say not a ‘. bod | (Join the dots with a pencit ine, | Never boil a sausage until the bark | has been removed. Otherwise it is apt} to bite you. | beginning with dot No, 1 and follow- ing them in numerical order, Chapter 4 Forty-nine will be printed Wednes- day, | A young woman I have been paying attentions to and whom I desire to marry refuses to listen to my sult. here any advice you can give Y. BE. P, re { advise you I should have to see your suit. Maybe it is too loud and deafeng her wy Slightly Previous. | COLORED man who bad com tracted @ debt some yoars ag~ with one of our came to town the other day and | called on his old creditor. | “Didn't you 'splain to me dat if I settled up dat account you would sive me a 'lowance?” said the darky | to the merchant, ) | "Yes, I did say so, Sam," replied ( the merchant, “If you are ready to § [settle your bill now T will make a'y | food allowance,” and the merchant waited for the colored individual to pull out his pocketbook. “Well, sir, I hasn't got de money jus’ now, but I thought I'd come in ‘and get de ‘lowance; my wife wants ; - to get hersel’ @ shawl,"—Neteonal h Monthly, Kaitor ‘Soft Anawers Tam trying to invent a clock that will keep union hours, Have you any estions to make that will help| UL Make one that will strike oftey enough and maube thac'll help, | WwHarT tS (T HAS FEATHERS) WWo FEET AND BARKS (uke @ 006 Ansiv | winter BA 1 don't know, I’m strictly (em- eer Le { ’