The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1916, Page 22

About Plays. and — ARCUS LOFW ta tndulging in M &@ wonderful dream. In it he New York includes | remodelled sees the entire Theatre building, which @e Criterion ‘Theatre, tmte the pretentious motion ploture in the country, and over the main entrance he sees @ eign reading “Marcus Loew's Mam- Moth Film Emporium.” While the Wholo idea is a dream just now, Mr. Loew says it will some day become a Feality if one obstacle can be over- most come, That obstacle is the lease James K. Hackett holds on the Cri- terion. Mr. Hackett is doing very Well with the Criterion, thank you, which, transiated, means that the lease he holds is some obstacle. There might come a time, however, when be would be willing to dispose of the In such an event Mr. Loew, with the sanction of the owners of the big structure, could make bis Gream & realization. Mr. Loew now has pictures in the ww York Theatre and on the New ork Theatre Roof, formerly the J. de Danse. He announces that he Intends to put films in the ballroom When he da the same building soon. he will have pictures every- where in the structure but in the of- floes, the basement and the Criterion. 4 Says that if he can ever tnduce . Hackett to let him have the Cri- terion, he'll make one big picture eatre out of the entire first floor of @ building. It would extend from Forty-fourth to Forty-fifth Street, with the main entrance on Forty- i COHAN & HARRIS TO MOVE. The Cohan & Harris gencral offices ill be removed April 1 from the Fitegerald Building to the Candler Are, dam H. Harris is Interosted | the ownership of the Candler THE FRIARS’ FROLIC, A. L. Erlanger 1s Booking and Ad- visory Director of the all-star Friars’ Wrolio of 1916. Sam H. Harris is Gen- @rel Director, George M. Cohan Gen- eral Stage Director, and Fred Block Business Manager. Channing Pollock is Chairman of the Publicity Com- mittee. The show will be given in the following-named cities: New York @May 2%), Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnat!, St. Louis, Chi- eago, Detroit, Buffalo, Rochester, Boston and Providence. K. & E, TO BOOK IT. Klaw & Erlanger have entered into @ contract whereby they will book the Orpheum Theatre, Newark, for ten years, begtnning Sept. 1. It will POP?” ne HEY LISTEN--€ RIGHT IN YOUR LINE have the same attractions as the Montauk, Brooklyn. SOME NEWS IN RHYME. ‘Well, Eva Tanguay's back in town; tho “Girl Who Smiles” now wears a Nd. Next week this girl of “1 Don't re" will sing at Ziegfeld’s in the @ir, A truck will take her «# Ty it to her home, John Mears tells me. ere’s Alioe Brady, charming girl, ‘who into plotures took a whirl! Shi getting ready, #o I hear, in real stage drama to appear. Fred Block is loaded down with woe arranging for the Friars’ show. It's not so bad for| him at that, Perhaps he'll worry off @ome fat, You've heard of Julta San- derson, the comely singing, dancing one? Well, Julia, who was il) in bed, Ya back in “Sybil;" am the dead. Chris Brown—a handsome guy, by gosh! who books the acts for McIntosh- trying hard to master pool. He fin ft costly, as a rule. Ruth Hale, w’ fends out Selwyn’s nows, is leaving town and say—the blues hit her in manner harsh and knocked jem into Downcast Marsh. Dave Biaufox has a brand new sketch Which really should some dollars fetch. Now, will he tell who wrote {t? No! We think ‘twas Dave, him- Bam Rothapfel’s sure Moat everywhere you . To fame, they say, |, Bam's resigned. To Sam, Ben Atwell’s mighty kind. It's time this whyme was ended, folks. We've got fo write @ lot of jokes. ‘What’ e. that— way ‘twon't make you mad? Well, smoke! That's tad—that's bad! Gossip. operon will return to @t, Patrick is going to have to di- Kennedy Warmer” Monday night. Wis You AXEL? ~~~ 1GoT A JOB FOR YA gust Now AN’ ITS Now KEEP ON THE aa | oSIDE WALK OR Youll |GET YouR 300TS QC Fuit oF SNQW GET A QucK LW DoaaontT | You'D THINK T HAD “SMALL“Pox” “TH! WAY “THose. WAITERS DUCK ME! re v oe LUNCHEON, Yeoor! Say wor Time. (Heyl, HEY | ee DYE CLoge P { wa\T=TuH ! ' OH AN EASY JOB. “NIGHT WATCHMAN ILA BREWERY "ME ALL Y'GOTTA DO {$ WALK UP AND DowN OUTSIDE THE BREWERY AN’ KEEP. AN EYE ON THINGS! Home and Comfe Page of THE EVEN NG WORLD, Friday? M | “S*MATTER, we ws a’ IMPOSSIBLE IMPOSSIBLE] rape ‘ OH- +: 4, siave_| ld vide the honors to-day. the natal day Irishman, Maurice, the d Eva May Francis is in “Nothing but the Truth.” “Princess Tra-la-la" w the Broad Street, Philadelphia, day Grace production. week of March 27. Frank Powell, picture pi fl It is also of that othor aoted jancer the cast of ill open at Mon- 6 ie rehearsing a new It will go on during tho roducer, has Joined the Bay Side Yaoht Club’ and toate the title of Commodore coming Edwards °Fayrtte that the St. nounces Comatock Nicholas an- Tee Skating Rink will remain open until June 1, George Vivian, he has manager of Punch and Judy Theatre, announces vered his connection with | the Ben Greet Players organization. A benefit for the children of tho One Hundred and Fourteenth Street Temple will be given at Sunday night, the Casino | the| Josephine Ray of "The Blue Para- |dise” says her friend Marion Parks [isn't the only one who is near mar- rying ® inillionaire, Come on, Josie; spill ttt Webor & Fields are to revive their comedy skating skit at the Pulace next week. They used to do tt when the roller skating craze was in vogue. HE WAS BIG AND HUSKY. I, Ray Comstock, one of the own- ers of "Very Good Eddie," at the Princess, was in the lobby of that theatre between the acts Wednesday hight when @ big, husky man asked him if the show was good. vat!" sald Mr. Comstock ing again to-morrow night.” husky one looked straight at right,” he said. 8 for to-morrow night on your say- Yl look for you after the first act History doesn't relate whether Mr, Comstock was at the Princess last night BETH COURTS THE MUSE. Beth Smalley of the Hippodrome has contributed the following poem: | Port} * a Make all others “'twice a d FOOLISHMENT. “You knew me once," sald Annis Moore, * Way should sou pass me vy! Tut not tor ‘That eirful pin had proved too much Por" Aunts Nocte, ou wee. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, Judge-—You're charged with bur- glary. Prisoner—Not guilty, Your Honor. I merely attempted to go into bust- noss for myself. Judge —What do you mei Prisoner store. by that? 1 tried to open @ Jewelry DDDDDODODOODHHOHD.GIOADGHDIOSHGD. DOOOOOOQOOOG GGA E GOGAT TCG oo 60s Vee e S108 V6 oreo ieverarev PLACATING A MUTINOUS DIVISION WHICH HAS REBELLED AT FACING INEVITABLE LOSSES, WILUE, AND NANKED OUT AND [LL GIVE GO ON IN NOW) HAVE THE TOOTH YOu THIS NICE OO99900H. we Sevens iB iooae maenied 9 OEY oveag Won AND MAMMA WILL TAKE You \ To THE mows || TO 8&& ™ “CHARLIE CHILBLAINS Too! _ we «) “asec ' oe WANNA GET MN Too HONEST a a \ poNT—_- PULLED - 'T pont ‘ACHE NO cae | a SOME WHERES/ OUTSIDE. DAS BREWERY = arch 17° se 1916 By C. M. Payne Ecause | THEY Hl | ARE ALREADY/ | TULL / “Pup sy Bud Counihan ( WELU-Nou'Lt Be CAREFUL > Z_NeT To, LOCK me ae x ™“, — \WNoNtr Su GEE | WOT WAS THAT CRASH? HELLO ?-. -HELLD AKEL ~~ >> HEL-L-L-Olf --—— HEY AKEL!+.HeLLo!? - perry and Salt PASSED BY HAZEN CONKLIN Goprright, 1910, Prem Publishing Go, (N.Y, Evening World) THERE'S ONE THING abil s MORE ODD THAN MOST SWELLED HEADS HAVE WASTE ROOM INSIDE, e —AND THAT) 1S HUWOMAN | HUMAN NATURE— NATURE, The marksmanship of some men toho keep shooting off their mouths ts uniformly poor or there would be more targets that would hit back, Old Mr. Mirage stopped at a garage to buy him some gasoline, And when he left there his wallet was bares since then he has not benzine, There's many @ gay old rooster whose head hasn't been combed for years. The shades of night were falling fast as through the crowded street there passed A man who bore for meagre price a sandwich with the strange advice: “Try one of our 250, lunches and you'll never forget it!” Often a husband “soft soaps” his wife when he's afratd a story of his “won't wash.” : “SorT. ANSWERS. ‘To HARD QUESTIONS. WE AL WAYS AIM TO PLEASE—even when we throw bricks, Hence we simply can't resist the appeal made in the following letter from a reader i i S Our me BETTER For \ ME-1 Go ( MOMER SITS MO LONGE RY: BV HE FIRE SIDE ~* AMO RATHER DOESNT BC A FAMILY CHORE, SINCE MOTHER TOOK TO BRIDGED AND FATHERS, DANCING WB CLO pore ! Editor privilege. who signs his namo but asks us not to print It Editor “Pepper and Salt,” Gro Deyt,, Eventng World: i} I have been requested to write @ twelve-line poem on “The Value of Bricks as Rest Cures,” but as the muse hag not seen fit to bless me with a| poetical mind I am forced to call for help, and have applied to you hoping | that you will find time to write it for me and space to print it, HERE Y'ARE—TWELVE LINES, COUNT 'EMI You ask me to explain In verse what you 6 How bricks, as rest cures, value have when seeking aweet | know of nothing In thie world more positive than bricks For taking worries out of domes—or filling them with nick Although some ethan the Vil tell you how to take repose. Search out a man wh P fo fight And lead him to a spot where a pile of bricks In siont. Then call him short and us ‘start to walk away, Ang'as'he reaches fora. onic pt for him dleplay. ie When_one brick bounces on your dome, with unabated Keep saying things to urge him un—cande-your-wili-get—THE—REST! Deyper and Salts"? “scrape the plate and kiss the cook,” but should {1 really be done’ B, U. 7. That depends on the cook, and whether you consider it a duty or ‘They sa ' ‘ ng | : SCRAMBLED —aG PUZZLES—NO, 6 L 8 fore the letters in this ego were sorambled they spelt the name of something which does i] ite best work when It le tired. Bee if you oan put the letters together again so that they will THE OLD HOME DOESNT SEEM THES what they originally did, The BAME NO MORE. sorambled letters in Wednesday's egg epelt “PLAYER PIANO,” "BR 44, ; 4 “ | m4 wow 7 72° or ‘ " * »* 39 2 88 CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX, HE mole, being blind, did not mind the darkne: (Join the dots with @ pencil line, beginning with det No. 1, and follow- ing them tn numerical order, Chapter fifty-seven will be printed next Moa. day.) @DDDD®OIWI|/I IPO AVOMI|OENHHOBDO}AIOOOOS® AND SUPERMAN ¢ MAN By Ferd G. Long ¢ Saceeees