The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1916, Page 20

About Play and Players Japanese musical play from the pen of Mary Lee Wertheimer is to be produced in New! York about the middie of June. It is called “The Romance of the Et and the Kta Producing Company has been formed for the purpose of #taK-| ing it, Mra. Wertheimer has written both the book and the music. She is the wife of Leo Weldon Wertheimer, & prominent member of the New York bar. Mrs. Wertheimer comes from the South, the family home being at Cobbs Hall, Va. Her maiden name was Lee, and her father was a cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee, The story of “The Romance of Eta” is based on) the wanderings of a band of Japanese jes, which was known as the Eta Erbe. ‘This piece will be Mrs, Wert- betmer's first contribution to the J UNDERSTAND Youve Got A HANHERIN To SIT , on THA PRESIDENTS CHAIR SOME DAY \ LOU-TELILEGEN ILL. | No performances of “A King of Nowhere,” the current attraction at the Thin ninth Street Theatre, were Given yosterd Jou-Tellegen, the @tar of the play ried iii with tonsillitis. His . Dr. James T. Russell of Bast y-firt Btreet, said the actor might to resume his work to-night ‘arrar, in private life Mrs. Lot legen, has had tonsiliitis for abo @ week, but is about well BY WAY OF DIVERSION. They've got the derndest pair of | Bill an’ Bert jest | act as thougi they dearly love to do a feller dirt. 1 never git to work, @eems, a’grubbin’ with the hoe what they git their fishin’ poles down the road they go. To see them | Dobbins 4: ‘long Jest nigh on ects mew But still Berugsses never Know that Dave got me riled. | give ‘em one look of scorn an mto my hoe. But in my hes give the world if 1 could ay go. T Beruxsses kn while Dad's on hand, that there m bound to be an’ yet they'll walk an extry mile to rub it fm on me. Some day when them two at me, at work an’ out of th, I'm either goin’ fish) or TH beat them kids to death | Gossip. | Lee Harrison bas returned trom | Australia “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come” may be produced again soon Betty Callish has been engaged to | @ucceed Virginia Brooks in “The Great Lover.” | ‘Vivian Prescott, who has been ser- | fously 11] at her home, No. 640 River- | @ide Drive, ta recovering slowly but wurely. | Wanda Lyon of “Robinson Crusoe Jr.” has been engaged for three years | ‘by the Messrs. Shubert. Brandon Tynan wil! read Hamlet's soliloquy at the annual dinner of the | Public School Teachers’ Association | Gaturday night at the Waldorf. William (Buster) Collier will be a film star at the Rialto next week. | The picture will be “The Bugal Call.” | Pop Collier coached him in the acting, | Justin Huntley McCarthy, author of | “If I Were King,” which E. H.! Sothern will present at the Shubert | two weeks for the Actors’ Fund, will contribute his royalties to that same charity. More than 300 Yale men were in the audience last night when ne to Bohemia” was presented in New Haven, George 8. Chappell, w wrote the book and lyrics, is a Yale ate. ‘The play comes to Maxine; Theatre this evening. Maggie Mitchell was in a box «t the Criterion last night to witne.s a per- formance of “The Melody of Youth.” Nearly sixty-five years have passed ut on the New Julia, in “The jer’s §=Daughter,” at Burton's Theatre. Saturday and Sunday evenings the Neighborhood Players will repeat their new bill of four one-act fp The Junior Group of Players o' ry Street lement will act “The Girl” Sunday afternoon at No. $46 Grand Street, Eddie Leonan|, the minstrel, want- bis wife to retire from the stage take life easy. She (Mabel Rus- ) refused to quit. So Eddie ups | 4! S wude Thar “CouPLe” ») THAT SES (_7o You DEAR Naas a C “Ave Doe 2 { GooFUS AN’ met) 5 5 ell WODDAYA MEAN STRIME, Y BIG BURGLAR ! 2! CAN'T CHA SEE? GET AN OCULIST ff \Y' BIG ROBEE! 1 It What You gathering sbekels hand I'he hind one purple eve, nul call n throwing @ brick at inst in A flat Ob. she Was an expert at a tooth, fend writes her a sketch called “There n 2 Pe 1202 15 % me Laer MENRY HASENPFEFFER-— Was His Wife Kidding G {fi ‘if ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. G. 1. W.- They all use lots of eat of the “| tras.” a professional dancer. FOOLISHMENT. A girl with @ quarter went. she thls queen, | Aud be the truth, “Willie, do you know where bad nut tp, tomontn, | Httle boys who steal pennies go?" y | "Te the penny-tentiary, don't they, TUESDAY ‘TOMMY SAW AN ALLIGATOR~ WHAT DID. HE SEE TODAY? TES Lom AT Him! Aintr HE AN’ AWFUL FATHEAD ~AN' WOT CHARMIN' SNIFE We WAS! — UA 1. 1B. C.'The family name of Tem- pest and Sunshine is Lames OUR OWN POPULAR SONGS. | st ey—Walter Kingsley was never FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Home and Comic Page of THE EVENING wo S’MATTER, POP?” RLD, Thursday: April 27; 1916 : By C. M. Payne. we FER THA LuV Uv CREAM! IS THERE ANYTHING LSE You'd RATHER) strike TUH *! | © | e 4 PASSED BY ® & i$ HAZEN CONKLIN ' § @ @) H GOIOX — Copyright, 1916, Prom Publishing Co, (N.Y. Eveving Word.) Feooooos chan e his They kept him At’ . . . quarrelied about at home.” f upon the shelf and never h way from day to day and ni To simply be like you and me and He wanted to, but, sad to say, So boresome to a (Contributed by BOM. F. Some words | like, but there is one that !'ll be always hating— When “central” keeps me half an hour and then cuts in with “WAITING?” | Fire aa SCRAMBLED EGG PUZZLES—NO (3, Him or Was She Kidding Herself? 19 PRETTY — ‘DEED 6HE 1d! SHE DAWGONT Dear! HOW “TRUE (tT 1S6— we THAT “TH “BICCEST FootS" MARRY “TH Coprment 1914, Frame Punteming Co UN T Reverting World) FLOOEY AND AXEL—Under Any OTHER Circumstances Flooey Would Gladly Accommodate Axel! K We len bear ol 0 young ean being “inovicaled wih love” | Hut marriage Urings “sober second thought." TWO HEROES. ONE had the heart to play the part demanded of a viking; Within him burned a soul that yearned at giants to be striking; To do the stunts done only once and never then forgotten; To toy with fate and demonstrate that fears are stuffed with cotton; To every day go forth and slay some devastating dragon; To reach up far for some high star to harness to his wagon; To arm his hand and scourge the land ti!! villains numbered zero; To re eed dare then calmly wear the laurels of a hero, He wanted to, but, sad to say, b never came his way. arlike thoughts and looks. earned his living keeping books. The OTHER yearned to be interned in soft, suburban quiet; Though never blessed with day-long rest he thought ho'd like to try its of worry; to hurry; er get exc’ poor benighted 'y day d “thrill arc ‘movie star!" A woman doesn't care how she loads down her spring lid as tong as some other woman's hat “has nothing on it.” WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WORD? (Suggested by A. Van D., N. ¥. City.) My eagerness to hear one word keeps my attention st Whe mother puts the dinner on and tells the family “ Jemey City, NJ) AMOS CRABB SAYS: “Whenever you hear a married coupte saying! por especially nice things to each other in public you wonder wl GOOD IDEAS GONE WRONG, Before the letter: were scrambled they name of something which doesn’t afford as much pleasure in the winter as it doi the summer See if you can arrange the let- ters to spell what they originally id. The sorambled letters in egg epelied “AERO- Y'Bic SAPHEAD —\7>, UT CUT THA PLATE VE, IN TH’ MupDLe St | REA | EADY!” s then dust ONE REMEMBER THE TIME [7Z THE TOUGH BoYS FROM Gy THE OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD HELD You up? [DAT GUY MUST'A RUN AWAY FROM HIS NoIcE Landlord’s Way. Jos BARRYMORE, the actor, was talking bout Germany's sub- marine policy in New York. "When Germany told us we Ameri- |cans might cross the seas in safety provided we used such ships as sho offered, I nearly died laughing,” he said, “I was irresistibly reminded of the who complained to his landlord: “Landlord, I really must insist on your repairing my doors and wine close so badly that tt in- work. [t blows my hair the landlord, ‘The of that difficulty Is your hair cut off! "— She Recognized It. HE young daughter of a promt- Tr nent New York financter, who bas passed most of her years in the city or at the largo summer resorts, recently pald her firat vialt to @ real country home, says Har- per's Magazine, Bhe was anxious to show that she was not altogether M: ignorant ef rurel conditions, and re OW Gimme AT THAT BIG CHEESE" em {Let's TAKE HIM DOWN To DER CREEK «G AND TRowW ‘IM OVER. DO ME VUN LITTLE Favor PLocey~4 4 POINT OUT DAS GUY voT'S BEEN BAWLING ME ouT over Here! soak L WHO ARE YOU (ZN WITH, THE GAS ZZ) HOUSE GUYS OR. THE CHOLLY BoYS, HUH? FELLERS, | To HANG OUT | HOUSE BOYS. when a dish of honey was set before rupted. “It wasn't that, He liked i because he could sit down in the hy and fish from the window."—I ‘Ab,” she observed carelessly, ‘I | delphia, her on the breakfast table, she saw her opportunity. see you keep a bee." .. Logical Conclusion. 66 7\PP how one's clothes react on one's mentality, I'm wi dress socia! matters occupy my ate) tention, and when I'm in golf togs I don't think of anything but the game." | “And 1 suppose when you take @ bath your mind's an utter blank," | Boston Transcript | Ideal Fishing Holes. | YOUNG woman who had re- | turned from a@ tour through | Italy with her father informed | fa friend that she liked all tho Italtan cities, but most of all she loved Venice. | “Ah, Venice, to be sure,” said the friend, “I oan readily understand that your father would like Venice, with the gondolas and Bt, Mark's and lichael 10, “Oh, no,” the young weman-inter- POLMDEDODWOOWTDIOVBAOHHOSS Callahan § (m WITH You ALWAYS WANTED WITH THE GAS