The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1916, Page 16

About Plays and Players 1 Got fion at the Cort Theatre, is Bayard Veiller, who writes plays for @ liv- ing. “Pay Day” is a combination of Motion pictures and melodrama, and that is the very reason Mr. Vetilor is Keeping his eye on its progress, if that is the word. Recently Kiaw & Erlanger announced they would pro- duce next season a play by Mr, Veilier, They said It was a melo- drama with twenty-three scenes, It now «develops, Broadway hears, that the Veiller play and “Pay Day” are built somewhat along the same lines that is, they are both supposed to be motion pictures acted by speak- ing actors, However, beyond the fundamental idea, there is said to be larity between the two, and matter what happens to “Pay Bay.” which, by the way, has de- veloped into a full-fledged burl ‘on the movies, the Veiller play wil!| que undoubtedly be produced as per) schedule. ‘ie TOTO TO MARRY. | Sh cision. veer time Toto alls on | GIMME. Two QUARTS Prange fick betps him to his fect, Bo V_OF Y'VERY BEST Wien ts noart bas been, ea. After Smt they're married we'll bet when he} falls she'll let him lie there. HILLIARD VISITS SCALPERS. Robert Hilliard admits that he may mot be “quite as well kndwn by sight @s ie thought he was.” Why? Well, Mr. Hilliard has been dropping into a cut-rate ticket office recently and asking for seats to his own play, “The Pride of Race.” Each time, he says, the clerk without recogmying im ‘has told him that while no seats Were available the proprietor hoped to get some soon, and each time the actor has vowed nobody would ever eee the show on a cut-rate ticket. He told one clerk that the next time the iswer was “Not yet" he, the clerk, muld get his nose pulled: Lut the int of the tale is this—the Idea that | . Hilliard isn't known by sight to rybody in the Broadway district is posterous. You couldn't miss bim you tried. 80 HE STICK6 AROUND. Edward L. Snader, who used to play Thompson's part in “Tho Old " and grew #0 opulent at that he bought up a considerabje of Hartsdale, complained for months that he needed an Vy% ' Bes tb cet thes wonla oa arma por aver! YGor Wim: ae to get home early nights JUST HANG ANGTHER RIGHT ON WIS BUGLE AN’ HELL Quit! Arras Bor! Wid Belasco engaged him to appear chaplain in “The Heart of Weto- “ and he found himeeif in posses- of the coveted “soft enap.” the stage ten minutes in the first and that’s all. And yet Mr. Sna- hangs around the theatre until final curtain. After he had played part in a Canadian city recently ‘asked him why he didn't go “Oh, L can go there when I can't go gmywhere else,” replied Mr, Snader SHUBERTS GET NEW PLAY, Loon “PoP! Five Cents FROM those who are ex ad a y ing considerable interest in Se Py) DOOR FOR "PLAYS “Pay Day,” the new produc- ” ‘The Messrs. Shubert have acquire ucing rights covering a play from German cailed “The Cry of the "It is @ farce. A_oopyright mance was given in Chicago re- tly. Ralph Herz played one of the roles, GossiP. Bisa Ryan is going into vaudeville fo J. M. Barrie's “Rosalind. \ “Ruggles of Red Gap” will close in me = flalo week from Saturday. sketch made from an O, Henry story. Frederick James Smith, of the Mir- | Harrison Fowler will be in her sup- por, i» a bridegroom. | port Julia Dean will Ukely go to the Pa- | jc Coast as a stock star. ‘ancine Larrimore is again in Madge She has) Kennedy's rele in ir and Warmer.” iven up vaudeville, VER UD VORGOYIN in Miss Kennedy js 1, ley Harriso join Mrs. anuel Reicher will read'from the meet in “Ashes” in Columbus next man poeis and give ecenes from i. oh Gabrte sorkma A 7 y day. Dupree le to return to vau-| 20h? Gabriel Horkman,” anslated by : Alma Kruger, at the Neighborh le. Edgar Allan Woolf is writing | Playhouse Sunday night. pee teh for her. The former _kd-Au ; Club, now ‘Anna Cleveland will close known as the Photodramatists, ‘mot woman at Pol: Ww: last night in the projecting ro of . Inez Regan «| the Balboa Film Company. Even Bally Cohen, widow and ‘aly this organization will have Maudeville partner of John C. Rice, is /own home preparing to. return to the stage. | Al Jolso: ‘ound a succe Katz—Writer Edgar Selden, No. | tar wanes Wane (a ictneeees 1587 Broadway. He is Anna Q: Nil- | tu- its his lish ditty called "V pert Athert Grac film serial, acene flooded. “ of New York, at the Hotel Savoy Saturday night. Kedythe Raret Vein of Gold this compe Latimer has joined Mar- production of Alfred Lunt has left is the play Ri Hughes made from Gertru 's story, “Perch of the Devil. George will play the role of Constance in Shakespearean pageant at the WI! iam Winter testimonial, Maroh 14, the Century Theatre. gucssed Carroll Fleming, formerly stage di-| go through with it. rector at the Hippodrome, ts putting | queried. over some bi, “The sensations in the new ‘he Iron Claw.” shows @ whole plantation One IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN THIS wt Cad So +e is A Lover of Good Music ? MoRNIN’ ! OAVELL - AY HOPE. HE. AINT <foT ARY FAMILY ff Were oes! “Hello!” sald Freddie, Then, indi- cating Walter, “You know Mr. Kings- ley, don’t you?” The Wilmington man didn't want to admit he didn't remember Walter, 60 fhe replied: “Sure! 1 played Kingsley at my house, didn't 1?” Now that made Walter cranky. ‘Of course you did,” he reptied, with @ touch of sarcasm. “I'm the fellow who had the trained pickle.” Mr, Dockstader realized he'd wrongly, but he decided to “I that 80?" he: “I thought an actor named Dill had that pickle. FOOLISHMENT. ay Pty ot ant @on’s personal representative, the Switeh, Miss, for Ipswich?" He| PEEVING WALTER KINGSLEY. ny AP A AT t a a . 4 p a? He . wed « dry goode 3 oot F fey tl who Pree the | has introduced it in “Robinson Cru- Walter Kingsley, press agent of the pala wsdl race, gama aerlents dn’ Howe Sate |e see and Freddie Schader were in| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. ore engagements in New York] James K. Hackett will deliver an| a restaurant yesterday when 8 Dock-| “I've just been to a funeral.” a ease nip ss at the anniversary dinner of|stader, manager of a theatre in Wil-| ‘Whose was it?” pong ta to lass of ‘91, College of the City | mington, Del., came in. “I don't know. I went for the ride. se we NO-NO -MRS> JONES-YoU \ =1 ean | Cant Comein/ KEEP A SECRET \ HERE - ITS \ CANTI? BESIDES) 7eEGaET LORce : { (sm r 1 DONT ALLOW 7 “/Now JONES, ,\ ( FoLLow SMITHS ) MOVE MENTS EXACTLY, \ (HEN SNEEZE Tuoce \ ANo MUTTER THE \ MYSTIC WORDS WHLE iY > (a G ON THE Nast / JIM TO KEEP ANY) SECRETS FRom / ee heed “ey »( OF THE RIGHT Fore — > oF INGER THIS GETS You \ Past THES Ries Sirti / SIGNAL CORPS INSTRUCTORS TEACHING RAW RECRUIT THE WIG WAG Cove. 8 AVI Page Potamung Os CF ¥ wrenme worm! ws GOPGGOHOBPGHWLHDHODOGHDOGGODHDOGPWOOOQODSGI.AOQOHs\4 \ coe 1arTe SOME OTHER Nee? By tore be THAT ONE HANGING) UR & PcTURE ~~ ¢ Last Nieurt _) Thornton Fisher 8 (TS NOTHING iM MY YouNé Cr ee 2 a nL REPS e ENING W wa we we DHDHHDHGHDGHHDOGTGHHHDGOGPHHGHHHHODHOSDOHOOGOGGODGOHGOHH He ATES Goob Music —“— 8 PEPPER AND SALT 99000H0090099990000000008 PDDDDODHHDDGHDOHDOHDHHOHOO) Passed by Hazen Conklin. Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Drening World), ALL WIVES WEAR A WEDDING RING ON A FINGER— Photographs of the past generation in most of. the family albums we've scanned demonstrate that they undoubtedly were taken with pains. —WHILE SOME HUSBANDS WEAR ONE IN THE NOSE. -H-H-H, No! we d WELL “I DoNT CARE WoT Look Like ! ORLD, Wednesday, March 1, (1916 ‘By C. M. Payne w & GAveE ME THE NICHEL To STOP we wm AT, ITS TH Best DAWGONE = MILK IN “THIS HERE COUNT UP TD TWENTY — OR THEY MIGHT THINK What mysteries lie hidden in thy heart no man may read; What romance in thy soul imbeds is thine to secret keep; What histories are written In thy past of darksome deed What moments thou hast known no human hea hi thou hast | from lie obscure and unrevealed; courses thou hi The saying that everyone must eat a peck of dirt in their Mfetime was the result of calculations made before they put hind seats on motorcycles. Hle very mai A load that te carried in a bottle need never be staggered under—so long as tt stays in the bottle. SOFT ANSWERS. Rattor “Bott Answers:"* A. says a “Dutch treat” ts where everybody pays thelr own check. B, says it's where nobody pays for any- thing until they see if there is some one present who will pay for all. Which ts right? 0.U. 7, A. te right. B. ts thinking of a “Bootch” treat. A ctrele is a continuous ne, round in circumference and has neither be- ginning nor end. How, then, does a “sewing circle” get its name? And can you “square” @ sewing ereie', * . LN, Listen, P. I. N. and hear yourself drop, Don’t you know that a sewing circle (a a continuous round of gossip? ‘And you can't square it. Those who are absent try to square themselves rd, but they never cam, They show up instead at the next meeting and wallop soma other absentee on, the cirqumference, | Réitor “Soft Answers, I want to buy an automobile, but there are so many good makes that I am confused, Which kind strikes you best? Haven't of ‘em hit t, mises tar Moh i He wore his Sunday high silk hat with dignity and prid r showed that he wae quite self-satisfi Just then a enowbell came along and left him bare of head— And also shorn of dignity—for—there—were—thinge he said! may know to weep; by thy hydra-natured ol; Wh followed in creation are conceale What poetry thou breathest—yet—they call thee common—"“HASH!” ledy THE COASTIN’S DANDY, UNCLE witt! Come ON AN’ HAVE A SLIDE! ILL LET You TAKE “GREAT DOT MYSTERY POOHVODODHHOOHOLG CHAPTER FORTY-NINE, 'W would you like to be wrecked on @ cannibal island? That is what hapen Freddy and ten boy scouts who were searching for Freddy's goat. The cannibal disappeared in the forest and the boye followed. At the edge of a stream they saw that eome fish had been caught. The cannibal didn’t catch them, It was a——, Join the dots with a penofl Ime beginning with dot No. 1 and follow. ing them in numerical order, Chapter Fifty will be printed Friday. ae Connubial Repartee. OBERT LOWE, the great Bng- lish commoner, was exceedingly sarcastic and frequently wn- gallant, Upon the occasion of a well-known | wedding he began to descant on the absurdities of the marriage service, | “When I married," he sald, “all the worldly goods with which I en- dowed my wife might have been ears ried in @ bundle over my shoulder,” “ah! but Robert,” interposed Mm “there was your great intél- "Well, I certainly did net endew with that, dear,” was ~~ jer, —Ban