The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1916, Page 12

rr ee ee ————— ened | ‘ 4 ~~ About Plays and Players N\\ NTHROP CORTELYOU, son of George B. Cortelyou, formerly | Secretary of the Treasury, 1s to take a place among the composers for the light opera stage next August when a piece, for which he has written the music, will be produced first in Atlantic City and then in New York. At the same time a new producer will try his luck on Broadway. He is Sam Tauber, who used to manage theatres | for the Keith interests and was more recently manager of the Times Vro- | ducing Company, in which the Pinc brothers are the prime movers, A name for the Cortelyou opera has not definitely been decided on. William Cary Duncan and F, Otis Drayton, the latter editor of the New England rvatory Magazine Keview, prated ¢ book and lyr nthrop Cortely years of ago and is at present study ing harmony at a conservatory in YQURE A MAN OF ost The Boston Symphony Or- | ahestre has play rpts from bia} KNOWLEDGE — Now How opera and the r criticisms of | Have ° DODO: his work have been excellent. While | Mr. Tauber is the producer of the Cortelyou piece, primari he} may be associated ‘with a well-know: n| Broadway theatrical manager in the| enterprise. | FIXING UP THE SHOW. When “Come to Bohemia” opens an | engagement at Masing Billott's The- tre next Thursday night, those who | were originally responsible for its coming into being may not recog- nize it. This musical pie § deen playing in adelphia with only Jukewarm success. Since it wag ar- ranged to bring the attraction to New York it has undergone a number of changes. Kenneth M George 8. Chappell, up the plans for “Com as it was first. produ though, Glen MacDonough hi written the book and Raymond Hub- bell has inserted a lot of sic. The original stage Jacques Coint, Lately, how Mitchell has been pottering the plece, and the reports now are that it isa good show. The cast has undergone some changes to BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Baid Silas McGuegin, in Pee weeple’ 8 tore; “My legs an’ my back an’ my shoulders are sore. I reckon I ought to be laid up In bed. But here Tam workin’ as usual, instead. Last night I went down to the Happy Club's ball an’ started a riot right there in the hall. The ladies all clamored to dance with me, Jed." | Old Pceweeple grunted. “I gotcha!” he said. “Well, I'm not so fond of these one-steps such,” old Silas went on. “They're a little too much for hard- workin’ men like I happen to be, b (2 LEMME when all them girls started wrastlin’ for me, I had to do one-steps an’ tan- goes an’ trots, I cut figger eights an’ The ladies wus A” Old I tied sailors’ knots. tickled an’ proud of me, Peeweeple grunted. eaid. “The young men,” said Si to take @ back seat. I showed 'e some things about shakin’ the feet. ‘The ladies jest mobbed thought I wus great. a'thinkin’ I hit a hard gay re fee, I'm right gra stout. The ladies d derful, Jed." Old » grunted ; eng ae “I gotcha!” he said. ‘ou act like My mus- sare sore an’ I'm all tYred out. You ul, but just a bit I wus won- | “S’MATTER, For tHe Love OF Pere! a is ( am- mt-er— % en pene gocher Nah MABE RE POP?” a I SENT You FoR His SAFETY RAZOR - Not A +AmmER WIDE GPREAD LONG 2 N° EXTINCT’ SIR ; See! venue World) you doubt me," said St, with a frown, - - ‘Pll bet you to-day I'm the talk of the] vited to go and see “Common Clay" »bed I} the other evening by a young man, Republic ‘The- » the play is the attrac- town. But since yer s0 er: reckon I'll go. You tigger I'm lyin'—)As_ they I know it, by Joe Then Silas got | a@tre, wh up and he starte ay—a scowl on| tion, Miss O'Brien suid ‘iis face, but with no more to say.} “This play He shot a big sneer of doesn't it? straight at old ne people say erunted, "I go! ud don't think s # funny little ntered the man, Gossip. don't you like it? Randolph Hartley bas returned to} “Not much." Broadway from the Pacific Coast. “How many times Julia Arthur will end her season in | {t7* “The Eternal Magdalene” in Chicago} to-night. about fifty times: I should think you'd be si “Fair and Warmer" will hit the 20 id Miss O'Brien, astonish mark at the Eltipge next Thursd " ill undoubtedly be e ‘Thermometers Ibe given away as] for me. Tut why have you s muny tines? ree, Tilton is to succeed Ttobert Adams in “A King of Nowhe thing, Mr. Adams goes to Buffalo to play] It wa im stock. forgotten his name, ve O'Grady writes he made a specch before the Topeka (Kan.) Press Club the other night and set the whole town talking. Maud Allan, c! » dancer, ing for London to-<« She is pear at the Shaftesbury Theatre September she will return to Ame! ica for a tour, HE'D SEEN IT OFTEN. y O'Brien, author of the dar the funny little man SHE'S A COUSIN NOW. When Lucile Wat hearsing in’ the Dolly sisters a iseovered “her aunt of the two young wo Miss Watson isn't old, No, st san which Result role of the cousin of body's aunt now acts t kw seems to hang on, I wonder if it ts as good replied her es} was att x the ave you seen] taine who does a weird dan ‘loves Kinkead, and she'd she just decided she wouldn't be any- JeLL a TWO HUNDRED YEARS T RECKON: & oh] UNCLE $I I WANT To Save! 5-H-A-Vv-€ ls. I TWHouGhT tT wad ABOUT “THAT — “TH’ “MIOSUS" CALLED ie Sg > THIR Home and Comic Page of THE _EVEN ING WORLD, Saturday, April 22, od UNCLE THI THENT THE HAMMAM BACK. +e THAY He Dip NoT ett MATE ANY MITHTAME ANYWAY SHE TOLD me To TELL You 1T WAS HENS ECGS sHe ORDERED ! HEY FLOOEY ! NoTICE AY GOT DAS MASK ON “TODAY # ? NO MORE FOUL TIPS IN MY EVE LIKE YESTERDAY! ) a 2 1916 ‘By Cc. M. Payne UNCLE THI, He THAY You OUGHTA OUND YOuR Witt KERTH HILLIARD ON THE JOB. Hilliard, in hia time, f “first aid to at with his knowl he is @ man Now let's proceed with the story, A couple of nights ago Mr. Hilliard “Midnight, Frolic” atop w Amsterdam with a party of friend ix a young woman n eluding w did Miss Hilliard thought It the So lok ed. ned she ts rted to have said rs in thi “nat in th clothes came near breaking Uy act, Won- der where the house tive was!" res ho q t vane “fietyt pit 1 woider ‘wher ale 'cah be att FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Rufus--Mamma, what am a para- Miss Watson] site? the} Mrs, Hamm-—It's a pusson what ‘8 from Paris, Rufus, DVHOMDHOO gM WHEN YOU WERE A BOY DewemaaenaeRERONE. PBDOOGCOHODOGTDOGHHG SOGGOOS OOOO OOO By Jack Callahan ‘ 3 WODODODIOODOGGGOIE CQHPOII|HD GEGDOGOHDDWDOODGDGODODGODPOOOOGDHOOHOHDOHGOOFGOGNGCSCGIOOGe GOOG REMEMBER THAT FIRST “SHINER” WILLIE JONES GAVE TEE, HEE \T WOULDN'T Look SO BAD \F THEY WERE BOTH KNOW rare BOYS (0. WHO }-— Te fies PAPA. HE & HAROLD. WAS FIGHTIN HONEST POP WITH WILLIE \ BUMPED ME EYE ON THE TRY To FIB TOME | \t9 play WITH IF YOU WERE THAT JONES FIGHTIN’, DON'T LET (Boy. “ IT HAPPEN AGAIN, [5S AND BESIDES 1'M % SURPRISED THAT YOU LET THAT LITTLE JONES Boy DO IT. YOUNG MAN DON'T | (Jo cay Next ata Observe t'! umbrella ark SATURI fisted ale mi ous 1 be weoms to retort that it When I tof her ti uot WIVES Then gaze upon the river's be PASSED BY HAZEN CONKLIN (Capyetght, 1918, Prem Pubiishtag On, (M, ¥, Brening Wert.) {Here Od Mere We id Q on who (S Independent in tought ond Oclon ou eee, not all RHYMED RUBBISH. Behold the robust rubber plant which doesn't rubber ‘cause it can’t; {aia Wa) Then look upon the luscious pear, misnal toadstool take a view—toa he fish who have their scal Then feast your eyes upon a gnu—l've seen some old ones, haven't you? ee . “The long and the short of it” does not apply to a subject when it ts be- ing discussed in a conversation between women; that 49, “the short of it” doesn't apply. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WORD? tributed by A, The word that sounds to me most sweet among the rarest ranke, For when they get my subway s . AMOS CRABB SAYS—“Life is a the married men who git convicted," ee Wonder if April showers don't also facilitate the growth of rubber and plants? LITTLE MOVIES OF BIG MOMENTS. bench, Fresh, dark green paint, Light, new spring suit, by censor, ) THE DIARY OF A PEEVISH HUSBAND. “AY-—This morning's mait brought sie the bill for Harrie’s Raster hat whlch she in. st have to ebumh to-morrow, last fall for TWO dollar, dust ba more to cover it, And when 1m st me more in a year for shaves « ued that her cou ented, believing stroy me, Her figures showed Sib5 at a quarter each to Dring the wh prvduced my late for the year past to total $80, he called to my barber day, a lado & total expense of 84 from her hand for filly prepared plot © woulen will meet SCRAMBLED EGG ly mentioned this to her ahe was mean enough to 1 WAS preposterous ahe insisted upon getting pencil and paper, t the figured result would eckvook and showed atube that, with he bal tn my hand, proved the Attention to the fact that she had not wet down the 10<ent up I that in @ year the $14.25 more ady lad figured the whole ti HE SEE TODAY? men marry, d, for only one le theres sit on them—never do; but cannot even welgh their tails; never sleeps, ‘tis said; ‘T, O., Brooklyn.) it few women murmur “THANKS!” es 8 succession of trials, but it is mostly (Deleted ‘Thirty-five dollars, And 1 am etill wearing the ause her head hay more hair on {t than mine tt iaircuta than it did for her bata, ince her of the abeunlity of her Jaily shaves at 15 cente each to total $54.75, and wle amount up to 85T With « look which was aggravating she bade mo ounted ¢o 830,50, which, added she had expendet for hate, anced to tum it over and 7 saw mifirmation I 4 out to be sure of her ground, She oo) 1 St Red ns WH lot ace mae 70 0 PUZZLES—NO. 21, ws e Before the letters in to-day's q2 91 egg were scrambled they spelled the name of something which is | very much in evidence every Copyright, 191¢, Preas Publishing Co. 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