The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1916, Page 10

Home About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY OHOOOVHHOOS § | HERE js a possibility that the] a Metropolitan Opera House will be used this summer as a film | theatre, Broadway hears that a | of this sort is being considered by the interests that control the big house, | and also that Sam L. Rothapfel,| Managing Director of the new Rialto, has been sounded on the subject of taking the artistic direction of the Proposition. Mr. Rothapfel is a busy man, but he seems to be a glutton for work, Undoubtedly he would rel- ish the opportunity to guide the artistic destinies of what would prob- ably be the largest picture theatre in this country. Naturally, the best in films would be presented at the Met- ropolitan. CENTURY THEATRE LEASED. Charles Dillingham and F. Zirgfeld gr. have concluded negotiations whereby they have become the lessees of the Century. They will take pos- e@psion of the big theatre July 1, but will not make their first production there until October. The house ts to be used for musical comedy. The roof @arden is to be utilized as well as theatre proper. There will also be @ restaurant. The leasing of the Century by Messrs. Dillingham and | Ziegfeld will in no way involve the | other theatrical enterprises in which they are interested. COMPLIMENTING SOTHERN. A nice little lady in a party that visited E. H. Sothern on the stage of the Shubert Theatre after the per- formance of “If 1 Were King” Thurs. day night made a faux pas, but she'll never know it unless she reads It here. After the visitors had been in- troduced to the actor the nice litte lady said: “Mr. Sothern, I cannot fully express my appreciation of your performance as Villon to-night. I was thoroughly charmed, I have seen you in every role you have played for the last twenty years and have always been highly entertained. However, it was es Herod in Stephen Phillips's play that I liked you best.” “Thank you very much,” replied Mr. Sothern. and Comic “S’MATTER, POP?” Fer THa Luv OF CREAM! WHAT ‘ IR You SQUALLIN ATOUT 7 WoT TH’ BIG IDEA HEN" —WoTS “THAT PIECE OF “CORD TiED “ROUND YOUR FINGER i was William Faversham who Played Herod. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. 4 Silas McGuggin to-day with nort: “The women are wearin’ their reases too short. It's got to be stopped. Now, I favor a law— etrict ome, by golly, with never a flaw—to rogul: skirt lengths and and make ev'ry le hat. I tell you the Women are goin’ too far. Each one aeems to think she's a burlesque ehow star. My daughter come home Jest to-day with a gown that, hon- estly, made her resemble clown, “Twas ‘most to her knees; @even-league shocs. I told her that make-up would drive me to booze, Her mother declared she looked sty- lish and fine. She said that the dress was of Paris design. I ordered it out of the house and them two laughed right in my face and my daughter!, says, ‘Pooh!’ I picked up my hat and 1 left ‘em at once. They both seem to think I’m @ regular dunce. But I'm back with a frown on my face show ‘em exactly who's runnin’ Old Silas was talking store, Just then Miss ast the front door. ed and he smiled ‘You see,” muttered Jed girl with his hen heaved he calle that the style.” Peeweeple followed th eye for fully a minut @ deep sigh. Said Yer showin’ yei And Silas Stalked out in a terrible rage, TO BUILD TWO THEATERS. The Messrs, Shubert yesterday @warded the contract for the con- struction of two theatres in West Forty-fifth Street, just behind the Astor Theatr Edward Margolies will do the construction work and he @green to have the theatres ready by Beptember, H. J. Krapp ts the archt- tect. The larger of the two houne: will have a seating capacity of 1,200 and the smaller will seat 800. Tho Bite extends from No. 209 to No. 225 ‘West Forty-fifth Street. The ground and the butidings represent an in- ment of $1,500,000, Gossip. George Scarborough, playwright, has returned from the Mexican border. 8 WHEN YOU WERE EDHDOODDOH7DHIOIDIOO: THAT KID 1S AS FOND OF WATER AS A 00G 1S OF FLEAS. y) age a std conearpeeemememnnienmsancennsltliain encareenhegraeteneer of THE EVENING WORLD, Saturday. May 6, MY WIFE PUT IT “HERE “To REMIND ME To Post A LETTER GHE GAVE ME.THIS MORNIN! t Ba til Chin Chin, the Hinpodrome’s baby | The wedding will take place in the will aarch parade on Fifth Avenue Thursday elephant, noon. The musical Wiliams & press.” Norman Peel pany. Joseph Byron, well known here a few years ago as a theatrical photog- raphe rned and will stay here. The Treasurers’ Club of Amertca will hold its annual benefit perform- ance to-morrow night at the Hudson Theatre, The New Brighton Theatre ts to piece which Riter are figuring on producing 1s called “The Amber Em- has Broadway from “the road,” advance man for a “Twin Beds” com- in the baby| fal Jack Merritt, the boy actor, Corey, honeymoon. returned to|the same theatrical He was from Canada| der @ three-yeans’ contract. following that engagement, starred in @ musical comedy. MISSOURI HUMOR. us that Mazio Fogarty, formerly of “A Pair of Sixes,” has married Harry A. Raider, and that they're going to China and the Philippines on their Mr. Merritt appeared in company and startled audiences everywhere, ENGAGES BERT WILLIAMS. F. Ziegfeld jr. has placed Bert A. Williams, the colored comedian, un- Williams will appear in the new “Follies” and, Mason Kramer went to the movies we ow we ws & ———— T STAND & MAY WEEP PA De HERRECTED z LITTLE NOW ae AND THEN BUT, SQUALL- aig HARHART AN? ZL Ber SHEN WHY <TH’ MY HAT SY! FORGOT SAM WILL DONT You. REMOVE TH' CoRD? ix a exaver 7 88 THAT T FORGOT ‘To JO REMIND ME PLT A “STAMP’ ON To TELL, HER WHEN “X Go HOME are YHALE “TH! Boos Y'WIFIE THINKS ‘You ARE ze 7 VELL GEE — AY CANT Do MORE THAN APOLOGIZE, CAN AY ? Swe. SEE YA OUTSIDE AFTER THA Game! tT —~$j DOGHHHHHHHGHHDHHHDGHHHDHHHHHHHHDHHDHHHHGHHHDGHOOHOOGS: Pepper and Salt PASSED BY HAZEN CONKLIN %) | POQDDHDODOADDIGOSSS) GADOOADO’IGOIOOS 8 THE SATURDAY ‘NIGHT BRIDGE CLUB TOOOO GQOQNGOI|SGIOWDANGDVSS) I FEEL Awrur Sora” FOR Poor MiSSUS BINKS- HER HUSBAND HAS SUCH notifies I cant STAND THIS Sit OOWN.Ginxs!! pil SU aoe ANY Loncer!!! You'tu, { MEXICAN REVoLUTION! Haw! Haw! IFT BAWLED Our : Re ee Ay, Lo Maue SERIOUSLY! IT || AN’ You HADDIT ALL YOUR, GUMMED A PLAY, LD HAVE NSN’ ‘TEE To. LEAVE AOME! OF LIFE An’ Deas) (OWN WAY I! OF ALL THE Foo. PLaYs!! GRRR!! BE AGReeapit! io WIFE “ ‘i a LO NEVER. LEARN TO PLAY Carns !! Now Youve Go AN? BLOCKED THE DUMMY, ® Copyright, 1916, Prem Publishing Oo, (M. ¥, Brening World.) The more you mark, the less your chalk; The less men think, the more they talk; The more they talk, the less they say— They babble all their brains away! AMOS ORABB BAYS; WAY, MISTER. | BINKS, You MUSTAT TAKE IT SO will be “It shouldn't be hard to choose between money begin Its etghth season Monday iast night and, falling asleep, shored and marriage. If you get money you get interest—if you get married you afternoon, May 22, with high-class | ao loud hy disturbed the actors,—Kim. | 108¢ #t.”” ’ vaudevill all (Mo.) Press. eee ee pian, Harding will talk 9h, othe — HYMNS OF HATE TO HIMS | HATE. ay Versus Personality” a 6 is . Neht Club's dinner to KE, H. Sothern FOOLISHMENT. 1 hate the frub who, when I try to tell him all my troubles, ] and Julia Marlowe at the Hotel Bilt- ations oa more to-morrow night. Morris Warscheur of No. 643 West One Hundred and Sixty- Mr, and Mrs. second Street, announce the engage-| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, ment of their daughter, Harriet, to] ‘Do you think the elevator boy stole KL, Samuels of Oakland, Cal. Miss ir watch?" Ware OCTAVE OCTDODOOHOHDODDDO DHDDDHHHHHHDHDODODHOOOOH A BOY ITS NOT THE WATER HE OBJECTS TO.IT'S THE heur is a niece of Lew Fields. ta name, id Willian me, Insists on telling me hie own until my patience bubbles. the title's great, oe “1 think ie one ‘that ought ¢o take,” Blake, | hate the gump who phones to me and then In playfulnese Won't tell me who I'm talking with but tries to make me guess. 1 hate the lult who Interrupts the story I'm relating, To tell the way HE heard it with sistence aggravating, E By Jack Callahan 8 1 GDDHBDOE® DDODH®OGH®DHDIHTDGOO™SGOOHHODHHNHWCGHS|GDHOGISGINOSOONOOOI I YOU TAKE THAT BATH - USE PLENTY OF SOAP AND DON'T FORGET TO SCRUB YouR. “He swore up and down he didn't.” | . | hate the blop who treads upen my coi ind tries to hoe it, {if I didn’t know it. Then agke, “Did | etep on your foot the crumb who will not laugh when 1 «i fe me cri But wears a look that seems to say, “Oh, what an awful pity!” Whe & BINKS yy taney L} WHOM DO YOU HATE! Bend ‘om in and we'll a4 ‘om to our lust, FOR PULLING A BONE PLAY ‘ . ‘ in the place,” she smilingly replied. |ef dried beef an’ crackers hain't dry e@omething witty, The cubic contents of some men's heads could easily be figured by solid geometry. Charity Begins at Home. ARRIS: DICKSON, the drama- H tization of whose “Old Rell- able” stories is to be produced this season, tells of an old negro! mammy who was kept from starva- tion by the white women who gave her occasional odd jobs to do, Mrs. Dickson, the writer's mother, had found some housework for the old hegress, but after working for two or | three days, Mandy sald sho must quit, | according to the Green Book Maga- | zine, “I done have to go out collectin’ foh | de missionary society,” she explained. | “But I have work for you to do,” | said Mra. Dickson, “and you need all | thd money you can get.” | “I know,” said the old mammy, “but I done haf to collect foh de misston- | ary society.” “What do you get paid for collect- JUST PARAGRAPHS, 'AT’S ALL. Now that the open window season 1s again with us, married couples will begin practising their domestio arguments, in undertones—for about a wees ary “This is a dry goods store.” “Waal, now, that, b’gosh goods, then I'd like to know what in 1 reckoned I know'd | tarnation a ‘em?"—Pitts- : { you'd * said the old man, “an'| burgh Chr City people who are spending their first epring tn the suburbe are busy in their new gardens, pulling up the plant shoots to give the weede « better chance to grow. ee . Now that the frost is out of the ground it ts beginning to goften up. Com- muters maintnin that the softer the mud, the harder the walk to the station. The plumber has gone for the season, but the robin continues, oe e 8 ee (As Longtellow might not hare written it.) Lives of some men oft remind us Not to hoard the gold that thrille And, departing, leave behind ue Relatives to fight our wille! . oe ee . Salve only aggravate . welling of the head, ee SCRAMBLED EGG PUZZLES—NO, 27, “I done don't get paid,” satd Mandy, were scrambled they spelled the | ut only gots what Teailects.” ¥ name of something which ap- pices a i | proaching summer makes us | think of, Dry Enough. | ee Before the letters in this egg See if you can arrange the let- ing?" asked Mrs, Dickson, 6c IMME a dime's worth o' dried beef an’ some crackers,” said — » \\ ters to spell what they originally Uncle Josh to the young lady PS | did. The scrambled lett In charge of the ribbon counter in a ‘ | Thureda downtown store, PENDERS.” “You bave evidently made a mistake