Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
_ . —_ . aera ies a Home and Comic Page of THE EVENING WORLD, Saturday. — 1, 1916 | “’S’MATTER, “POP?” ie CRE Ee ae “By oi Faye About Plays TF You HAD DONE THAT and Players IN MY DAY You'’D HEV By BIDE DUDLEY Got A Good WHALIN' E Mystery of the Playwrights) has been solved. The men who met in secret conference at] & 4 we wa we ‘ 'S WAY OUT FASHIONED BRINGIN’ Go Sinas, UP wouLd Do You ' a HIS WAY ouT YOUNG WUNS GOOD AN SENT TORED THOUT MER SUPPER 's Chop House Thursday night) preliminary steps to arrange for! i presentation of new plays by ik companies in order that pro ducers may sew them acted and thus! ¥ Be spared the necessity of accepting | ‘ Stage material with only the knowl. Mge of it gained from the reading of k uscripts. The proposed plan in #tcck houses in Brooklyn and it Vernon. An effort will be made| te inducs Ira Hards to operate his! theatre i. Mount Vernon as a try-| house. Another meeting of the rights will be held next Thurs: | e plan is as follows: Twelve play- hts will join in the movement Will be permitted to offer tw ® 2 Year for stock presentation = wt . how play will be tried at euch of the ‘ ! ix " ERES A CURGLAR® we FueK Bene eee theatres every other week, and it . acting companies will switch ls ins AE bnlakiel! each week, This will give the ers two weeks of re new production, each twice. Tho pi ited to see the pls | i Connon 1918, Prone Potiianing Ca (N.Y venting Worthy | aand bid for erested in the movement so far Winchell Smith, Edwin Mult Ne, Edward Locke, George 8: ugh and Paul Turner, the last ed a lawyer, who will advise the} rights in the working out of the It is expected that half a dozen will attend the ‘Thursday ting. ‘MARC KLAW TO HONOLULU, | Klaw of Klaw & Erlanger has | ed on a trip that will keep him m New York several months, will go as far west as Honolulu | Will Visit also Chicago, Denver, | e City, Los Angeles, San | ciseo, Portland, Seattle, Minne- and St. Pi AS MA EES IT. /Mitchel H. Mark, Pre Mark Strand Theatre Co owns the Strand here and ma ture theatres, is out with Mouncement that he is for Censorship of films, provided it Gane. He deals a terrific blow to the ecw picture. “The business must be purged of its | wealthy odor,” concludes Mr. Mark. | rahip properly applied will ac- plish this.” BY WAY OF DIVERSION, Convince Flooey AY per FLOOEY VUN BUCK DAS Kips BANE CET ME UMPIRE. TODAY , SO AY VILL BE CAREFUI Not TO GET PUT OUT OF DAS Game! “THERE (1 1S AGA AXEL SIMPLY CAN'T Tar NIX ON THE. D UMPIRE FOR THOSE KIDS , Aue WITHOUT GETTING INTO OWE ME ONE BIG ag) } | \ Afuss with ‘em! Pref pe” tnt ! SS a i YESTERDAY ONE OF 'EM Ire Hazelton, ther way, form lazer cigars today, Yorse ce Jost the fight fly cy 1 tonight, = He a & z i an known, 22, Diamond Jim, Saneing Joke so lithe and tra, ‘The Kaiser yy = Char last night, And Kissed hitm " 29, be Ivagged him cight, o Ingres we, a ! IT BRIGHTENED Him UP. An undertaker, who attended the at the Bronx Opgra louse last night, left the numper of , the box office, thinking he| Post. Ralph Graves is resigning to] MINNIE HAS PASSED ON. — | the Willard-Moran fight pictures. | g fon iro ag hav pc an editor on the National! Minnie, the lamb which was used in| After the film had been run he was Bre. clock a call was received Magazine. the Ziegfeld “Midnight. Frolic," is | standing in the lobby when he heard a 3 BOBBY IN ALPHABET LAN ge 3 summoned by an Tullan Johnson, editor of Photoplay|dead. The chorus girls fed her} negro say to another: $aS0OsOORTODOOOS GOOHHOOHOHOHHOOOOOOS) the usher en gushed talking he} magazine, lost clothes in the | cigarettes, Ah ain't nevah comin’ heah no Mow,” he eaid ‘with a amile, “r| Twentieth ( »ck Wednesday.| Moral: Don't eat cigarettes if you| mo’. Fo back tomy eoat and smile, “T) ti borrowed @ suit from an under-| happen to be a lamb, “Why ain't yoh?” asked the other, Boe a cate ne¥ the | sized train porter and reached Chi- — “Well,” came from the first, “that's | Paeaie © DUTY) cago looking like Hi Holler of “Way A PLAY BY MISS COWAN. the thihd time Ah seen them pictures, | , Dowa: Hast.” Browdway hears that Sada Cowan,| an’, Willard ain't knocked Moran out | Gossip. sHou pHave MONKY who recently contributed to vaude- | ¥it.” Agtisus Cunningham tes signed for! 4 Newspaper’ man nokea Bert [ide based’ on the question. of FOOLIBHMENT. ox an Francisco. “* "® ©o-| grown, manager of the Playhouse,| Whether or not defective children| — ¥, mother lost the dinner bell, adgal for Robert Warwick's address last|should be permitted to die, ‘has| . However, she Ud hovw. this ads) Salipie be Fomerantees pet Hasos) night. written a play which Will be produced | dust stood’ around aad wrung her hands, " papa AR, nd AR e has a © 0 under the direction of the Harris —— eA one Pom and the other| ine Dluea Hotel” replied Mr Browns |Fstate, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. 4 . “A suite at the Plaza?” came from —— She--What do you think of my new k Morse, who has been in ad-| the other fellow. HE HAD A GRIEVANCE. hone? . Bee teddy Long-Logs,” is to] “Certainly! Why not? He's acting] Pete Schmid, press agent, dropped] He—They're Immense, \ ie dpgmatic editor of the Washington in pictures," sald Mr, Brown, In at_a theatre the other day to see! She—Sir! OOOO} * IDODOOOODOOGIHO©: PODOODOGOOSS PREPAREDNESS. DDOQDDGHODDHODGODO®BODDOODDOHDIODOHODDOOHO) GOHGH®DGO®OOGHOGDHH®|GPO™IGOOID.GHOWAIDOANIDS) DQOOOQDQDOOGODOQGDOOGDOOGDSS Copyright, 1910, by The. Prem Tl , ing Co, tie New York Hvening W OR rather "Mr. X.," is always at swords’ points with “Mr. E.” over all the words that be- gin like experience, excellence, &c. Because their fivst letter is “E” “Mr, E.” claims them as his children, and (NOW), FOR, GQooNESS | because they are pronounced “X," and SAKE FOURS, sous would not be changed one single bit SEE IF We if the E were left off altogether and forever, “Mr. X.”" says "Mr, E." te AROUND IN THESE nie patos ara | a villainous creature who has kid- PSHE’ ES ME TONIGHT— napped his dear sons and left him “aver ‘ ING (LL Bo cour <earTiar with almost nothing but scientific vt OLD FIDDLE OF YOURS | words under his family record in the OT) BITHER. PA! great “Who's Who in Alphabet ‘ : HEH! HEH! Land," which we know by the name PA Dictionary. Cai \ ATTENTION! Especially does he complain of Ex-|¢S8t way. She was a buxom peasant WARD MARCH ‘ - sanity eee sl perience (whom he admires, very ith, and when she finally freed him IDODDDOODIDINIOIODH® snapped in offended tones. “He his meals tf the rest do, But that's sn’t bibble a bit, Not chat he|as far as he goes."—Philadelphia ob's “tummy” felt much the worse 4d us HEH~HEH~ LOok ar ymuch), being knowa a4 6 s00 Gh UME, fon nig wach and ita cuniah ment Ww a drop now and then with | Star, TH’ CAPT on THE END KE," So just to please the grieving old| Experience stood opposite, pointing | - PT OW fellow, we will spell him “Xperience,” | @nd laugh LO, . © OO SOODODIDOGOHOY THERE! “Lives there a boy with soul so dead | YOU ! "BY Arthur Baer and for to-night, at least, he is “Mr.| who never on ‘swiped’ pie haa fed? X.'s" godson, And “Mr, X," is tell-| Pat ix a bit of me that every lad ing Bobby what a wise fellow and|has and it Is well so, bec they thorough tutor he is to all who heed | are always caught, same as you were, his teachings. Finally, Bob and|#nd it teaches the x enc re introduced, 1 fingers off next time, Not off pie, Xperience ve introduced, It came) perhaps,” he said, and winked a “Lge some ple!" sald Hobby's| Msuish eye, “but off other things eyes. "I'd love some pie!” said his| “Remember, they ure all caught, | palate, “I'll get some ple ‘aid his| Same as you wer he called after hands. “I'll help you!" said his feet. | Bob who was fast traveling toward So his feet climbed the trellis and|Open Bye World his hands lifted the pie from the ~ le.” pantry sill, where his eyes had espied ii “6 it cooling and inls palate tasted of He Did Not ble it with great relish and his lips went R. and Mrs, Gotrox had just peel aeciniatin declared: “That's settled down into their new| DHOOM) OOGOGOQDOOMOCGOOGSO: Then of a sudden his ears were mansion, with billiare room, | called upon to play their part. ‘They | library and bondoir comp roud- | i = heard the sound of feet coming closer, | ly the good lady showed somo of her | FOR @& DISPLAY OF FORCES “Jack Robinson” the maker of the a Hatlaee RUE A AALE At AvAnUah pie had caught Bob at the nape of | P# 9 BOOBY 5 .AYOS shee D IMPRESS & RICH 4 iy the neck and was shaking him gen-|‘Is your husband a bibliomaniac? eee, wie is f srcualy, ‘ ; asked one lady, when Mrs, Gotrox | ar . U sy the way that pie tasted, one| showed them into the library, where r SUGHTLY WAVERING disitelh: \Sld Wrens uaa caked neues toca! would have thought a fairy had made every book was a leather-bo und edi- | } it, "but this person was not a fairy, tion de luxe. The hostess sti N wor did ghe resemble one in the small- ly at her questioner, ‘ Sertaiuly not!” iy ri ! » ‘ . ‘ Om tes )