The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1916, Page 20

About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY H. SOTHPRN'S revival of “If I Were King” for the benefit | + of the Actors’ Fund, at the) ‘Theatre, is proving so suc- @beetul that ft 1s probable his on-| ent will be extended two weeks Phe original intention wae for him t play but two weeks, closing May The popularity of the production been so pronounced that it has GiMoult to wet seats, A con- Gervative estimate shows that for the Go weeks onding a week from Satur- Gey the Fund will be richer by about $45,000. Two additional weeks would joubtedly make the total $25,000, ed, of course, the benefit idea continued. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. A funuy fellow on the stage, whose Jokes were gray and bent with age, @ce hit upon a echeme to try a, Brand new jest some night. ‘Twas) “ VEGSIRY NooIR! @eally new and crisp and bright. He AN' WILL YY’ HAVE jt 'twould be a seream., ‘Twas ANYTHIN' “To ‘ Ided about the town and hun FoLLER GIR ¢ LAMe’ of his friends went down to ——. — this brand new joke. They and Comic MATTER, Page POP?” WoT kiod for an hour before, bell With they'd choke. @g they'd a treat in store. is they thought funny man appeared ands}: Od we Cd WHAT SQuALLS AT NIGHT AN HEEPS YER PoP AWAHE? AN +e GITs UP AN THROWS TIRICHS AT IT ¢ \@ IT. owlwHy TH’ “CHEF.” SND \T WAS SPRING Joke, and out in front the it quiet as the grave. The ried to the wings; the mi @as saying things. Great Scott, now did raye! “You've spoiled my jow, you fos he vowed. "You've rown an insult at the crowd. Go k and square it quick." Th man returned and tripped: t @rese and slid and slipped, ‘The eame fast and thick. ‘Then t Ughts he proudly strode and asked why chickens « os the road. They roared at him : | glee. He told an- @ther of its kin d then retired, st to find a fam. is man A wid moral's in Feadei, when yo the you'd better look . And I'd sug- ®est to funny men they read thin over @nce again and ponder just a bit PRANCES RING REHEARSING. | FWILOOEW AND AXEL—And Now Axel Has Gotta Be DOUBLY Careful! Frances Ring is rehearsing in al w vaudeville sketch by Hector bull, entitled “Oh, Doctor!" | Alexander Leftwich is staging it. The playlet will be seen on the “big time” soon. A PUNCH IN THIS ONE. Benny Leonard, exponent of fisti- | oufts, will make his vaudeville debut enc Athambra next week in a skit time, AY GOTTA BE. CAREEUL “TODAY NOT To PULL ANY RAW DECGIONS AY DAS HOME PLATE. A GUY HEAVED VUN PoP- BOTTLE AT ME. YESTERDAY! GEE , THERE. GoES axe! HE OUGHTA BE IN THERE ANNOUNCING “THE. BATTERIES ey Tus Time! itled “A Day in a Gymnasium.’ ny should be a knockout. MILTON GOES WEST. ‘Robert Milton, stage director, is Yeaving for Lox Angeles to-day to di-| t the rehearsals of acveral plays for liver Morosco at the atre. One of the may 14 Down,” written by F ny Hatton, and another is ughing Lip," by John HH. Lawson. BREESE 18 RE-ENGAGED. Fiske & Mooser, producers of “The | | e& Market,” will send that attrac- TSE on tour next season for at loast Wirty weeks, It will play a Chicago = <7 © ment. Edmund Breese hy omni we-engaged for the chief mate ro! OH, YOU “Jeanette Diamondstein, ste: Vopriiant, 1916, beam Pubtienin N.Y. wypmine Werte a é Do nos THRow TBRICH-TH ATT ‘ ain! Me's TWE ONE T Trew Hom-m! DANGON(T! “TH "CHEF" WAS “THE ONE T MEAN IS AXEL - BOTTLE AT! Now LISTEN, AFTER THE GAME - - - of THE EVENING WORLD, Thursday, May 4, 1916 THE. Ive BEEN CHE > ONE OF “TH’ “SPRINGS FUR “TH LAST FINE WHERE CAN AY GET SOME FALSE WHISKERS ??? By C. M. Payne CHENIN’ for Dorothy Ric Marbury's of neer, is ju about the sweetest | ing imaginable. She ts also ready to @eeert at any time that he shakes a Wicked hoot. is to have a dance May 10 at the tol Majestic. Roy Barnes of “Katinka” is writ- ink the vries for “The Auctioneer re a Song,” which will be sung at the Miss Diamondstein wes | Lambs' Gambol ticket auction May 8 at the Hudson Theatre, Fred Herendeen of Chicago is in New Yor? arraftging to dabble some © is having the Inc. Street Theatre yesterday afternoon, | KPOOODODODHODODDHODHODIHOOHODOHODOHHDDIGDIOH/GOGHOIHDHIAS.IOSPDIAS just after brave Lou-Tellegen had Pepper and Sait fought and won a duel with swords, | } PASSED BY ‘# no wonder to me that Geraldine HAZEN CONKLIN & fell for him." ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES, W. 8.—The entry lst closed May 1. | The winner wi!l be announced Wednes- ing of Maurice yesterday when e lilting along the path ell. day at Madison Square Garden. Coprright, 1010, Prem Publishing Oo, (N.Y, Brening Wort) &OCOOE naHeR Casper—Several thousand, but there «Ors ri TER ateok compe are only five In the Anais. ‘See query Before you cry “Without a friend! ilnike ty the leading wor AHA ARON E . \ Peruse these lines unto the end. we ont Ann.” eae LIP MUST BE MISTAKEN. Wish Maurice ‘The “Cohan Revue 1916" will bel Lip Bleucher writes from Chicago Fhe of your aims sees: 46 Maurtoe. king of allt played the 100th time to-morrow] that he has written a song called “My $ i Wm, on i nea night. “Robinson Crusoe Jr." scored| Father Was a Pollooman.® Te must be out never underrates; ; My Wee heart's Soernla. TU lant Kt sme: wil 4 fake one, hecauge his father was, Who justifies your loves and hates; oe exander Volinine will assist} and at! 3, ¢ lown's well-known TSS Aaa vlowa in her dances at the Hippos | horse doctor.—Laeaville (Col.) Light. Whose pity for you ne'er abates? rs PieMored Preto mee, 0 Sunday night. | Ho has entirely YOURSELF! er distance, 9 corme recoverad from the effects of an accl- i Boi faat seal Ge Tare Pree lg Mit Me fly gee Bill FOOLISHMENT. oe 6 8 6 6 4 Frank McIntyre has gone to French AMOS ORABB SAYS: “Most wives have two pet worrirs: what other “ Gossip. | Lick Springs for a vacation of three Grace Valentine ts now acting for| Weeks. He took along the manuscript the Famous Players. of a new comedy in which he will ap- ~ Margaret Vinton has returned from| pear next October under the Dilling- tralia, Where she played In “Pot. | ham manageme Perlmutter.” HEARD HE PLAY. “My goodness!” said a woman in third row at the Thirty-ninth primary sc IDOHHDHH BHO DHDGOOE HDOOHODDD. By Jack Callahan § 3099TGOHGHOTHHSTEDOOOBOQOVOOOHODOOOOHOPO NA women have on, and what they have on their husbands.” MAYBE VERSE, MAYBE WORSE. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. |!n emall euburban gerdene seede now snugly, warmly Ile; “That woman makes the little things} They'll all come up—the neighbors’ chioks will get them by and by, {What fun to evan the pamphlets, janning our vacation early, 209 y000 © pics P WHEN ‘You WERE A BOY 1999909990008 6086/9:209:99009'98H9ON99OO% Now's the time to buy fly-ewattere, Every early fly you scoop Means a million June descendants ved from drowning in your soup, They are picking wild May flor Baseball fans are picking winne ‘2 in the woodlands where they grow: from the would-bes that they know. Though it’s early to make hone: You'll hear just as icious clime, "THE DEAD-LINE STARTS AT THAT KID'S HIS HEAD WOULD MAKE A GOOD CORNER STONE FOR A CONCRETE STRUCTURE OF ALL THE STUPID KIDS IN THE WORLD HE'S THE LIMIT. HE'S JUST LIKE HIS FATHER . ANSWERED THE DOOR FOR YOUR MA? 1816—Fashion decrees what women should wear, | 1916~-It decrees what they shouldn't WHAT 18 YOUR FAVORITE worD? Bent in by John Duffy (14 years old), Brooklyn. There's a word | like when summer brings its And | ack “Can | go swimming?” and my father co 8 8 8 8 THIN HATS FOR FAT HEADS, A man may be a veritable “fashion plate” and still not have ing qualities.” CORKER. JUST LIKE GEORGIE WASHINGTON HE COULDN'T TELL A LIE? ing tempi re “SUR TOLD ME To TeLL YoU HE WASN'T od “wear. “tags” himself! Many a man who tries to impress you that he is “wide aw.) “talking in his sleep.” eo. The man who thinks he's “it” usually really ee e © ew GOOD IDEAS GONE WRONG. Party wires, eee ee The “styng Dutehman” may have had the first recorded but there isn't “a ghost of a chance” to prove it Neet Re A ON an SCRAMBLED EGG PUZZLES—NO. 25. Before the letters in this egg were scrambled they spelled the name of something upon which a great many men depend for sup- port. ‘youl mate,” WILL BE MAD ON MAMA es 8 See if you can arrange the let: ters to spell what they original! did, The scrambled letters in Tuesday's egg ted MAY we | BLOW aman = an The fun Ie in deciding—when we get there we'll be surly. j GOOOQGDOOHOGHOOES HHDODOOOOHGO, WHAT TOMMY SAW IN THE WOODS TUESDAY TOMMY SAW A RABBIT — WHAT DID || HE SEE TODAY? Questions and Answers. CHERRYVALE historian has gone back through the files and produced this story A woman with a rapid-fire inter- |rogatory apparatus approached a | news butcher on a ‘Frisco train out ot Cherryvale during the high water a few days ago and asked excitedly: “Say, when ts the train due at the | next atop? How 1s it running? How deep 1s the water on the track? How do you sell your bananas?” ‘The vender of fruit and literature, who was something of a poet, an- swered “Nino o'clock, On time, Knee ‘Three for a | City Star, > Not a Square Deal. ISS MASON was explaining to her Sunday school class the lesson for the day, the subject lime.""--Kansas | 4 DODO) A/T FOOD? FOCOOOIDODSHDSEOSFSSOGPODOOP DOGG HHOHGOSGPPOSOAOOOOOOS Copyright, 1916. Prese Publishing Co. (N.Y Evening Wort represent the bad people and the wheat the good ones.” “Why, Miss Mason!" exclaimed a rosy-cheeked boy, who had been lis- tening through the lesson with deep interest, “Did you say the tares are the bad folks and the wheat the good ones?" “Yes, James,” replied the teacher, pleased at the lad’s interest. “Well, that’s funny, I think!" plied the matter-of- child, “It's the wheat that gets thrashed; the tares don't.” Ee a Something Lacking. CERTAIN drill sergeant, whose severity had made him unpopu- | lar with his troops, was putting | party of recruits through the fu- ervice, Opening the ranks so nit the passage of the sup- age between them, the in- str by way of practical explana. | tion, walked down the lane formed by the two ranks, saying as he did 90: , I'm the corpse, Pay atten- being the tares and the wheat, says ‘the Country Gentleman, “blow rememver, obildren, the tarea DODODDOOODODGDDODOOS) ‘eads is right, but you ‘aven't got that look of regret you ought to ‘ave.” —London Tit-Bits. Having reached the end of the path he turned round, regarded them steadily with a ec: 1OOOOITOOOOE By Ferd G. Long 3 “Your ‘ands is right, and your