The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1916, Page 16

eS — ———————— LE ee ee eS a 5 ' aera sern emecnrare ome a Home About Plays and Players By SIDE DUDLEY BIL O'BRIEN, minstrel, loves to play @ trick now and on @ negro. wtruck a emell short time i Za ili ge i ig? lial | | ! | | 8 & Bi 5 3 3 Hi t & pfs i! | tH ; Vi els = f EB: i “Hurt?” replied Mr. Herman. do you mean?" “You've just been struck by a Fiv- ver automobile.” ‘Mr. Herman and Mr. Aarons looked around and found the policeman had @poken the truth. TYNAN ARRANGES A BENEFIT. playere will give th “The Melody rh Youth.” will ‘Wilton PRESIDENT HONORE HER. Marion Weeks, who was a Brook- lyn high school girl a year ago, is + pretty proud. ‘aise ‘Weeks is now ing in vaudeville and, while at ‘e in Washington last week, wd ha “a ae oe Pee, and we her his jotograph auto- Sraphed, On it he wrote: @ere appreciation of her really ve: ot With best wishes, ; json.’ “And on the strength of her Prost- dential Gee gee it," sald bead (yes, he's a press agen! night, “Miss Weeks has been to ging next week at the : TO AUCTION BY PHONE. During the auction of Friars’ Frotic at the Astor Theatre late this De Ww per, in Los kod Ws to announce that Olive Thomas ‘wl be one of the auctioneers. Gossip. Jultus Tannen is thirty-six yeare old ‘to-day for the first time in his life. P, Heath will handle the publicity for the Billy Burke film at the Globe. “Molly O!" will open at the Cort Saturday night instead of to-morrow, Wanted—An xylophone player who doesn't render “Poet and Peasant,” ~Leon Bamberger. Will Deming leaves to-day for Jack- son, Mich,,tospend the summer do- ing nothing with all his might. ‘Maybe you'd like to know that the Danz Orchestra furnishes the dance music at the Hotel Taft, New Haven. “Britain Prepared,” a new war fil will follow “The Heart of Wetona” the Lyceum. “Daddy Longlegs,” with Rene Kelly {n the principal role, will open at the Duke of York’e Theatre, London, May 29. Lucile Cavanagh and George White, formerly with the “Follies,” have 4 olded to appear together in vaudeville. Margaret Illington is to appear in a comedy next season. She has select- ed # and will try it out at Atlantic City in July. Gertrude van Deinse, vocalist, and Prof. James E. Hardy, high wire walkers, will be features at Luna Park this summer. ‘The New Play Society will present Brieux's comedy, “La Femme Seule,” at the Hotel Plaza to-night. Mrs. George Bernard Shaw has translated it under the title of “Woman on Her Own.” Dixie Gerard has succeeded Belle Storey at the Hippodrome. She is singing @ number by Irving Berlin and one by Raymond Hubbell. AFTER THE FIRST ONE, THEY'LL HAVE |Omon SONNY. To TEAR HIM AWAY, TWO POSTALS AN’ SIX LETTERS FoR HAROLD. DON'T BE AFRAID | SHE WON'T BITE You: \T AINT UKE TAKING MEDICINE . and Comic S’MATTER, Page POP?” we NICE DAY ein —vezzal 80 THAT'S THE REASON? We overheard @ young lady way she was nearly mad about Rudie Tau! violin playing. We heve heard ti dling that made us entirely mad. “Rambler,” in Greenpoint Home News. HUGO 18 PROUD. Hugo Balmer had a tooth pulled Friday and hasn't quit bragging about it yet. He's going to let the Doys exhibit it at their show in Cu- ick’s darn to-night.—Mason (0.) Spectator. HE’s AN ACTOR NOW. Chick Brenner writes his father he ‘has taken up the theatrical life. He is pasti showbills for a circus,— Diiott ¢ .) News, FOOLISHMENT. Tame «funny looking 1 Rnew te was s knew it by the bari FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Did I ever tell you the joke about omted window?" guess I won't. through It.” You couldn't see Aw. DON'T SPOIL. THE GAME’. GOON IN THE WATER'S FINE! of THE EVENING WORLD, Tuesday: A SECRET 1S Sometdine YA MAME Every PERSON YA Teuu (Tt To, Promise ley wont Teeu MAITE EVERY ONE PRomise THey WONT; DAWGONIT!H IF You HADNT MENTIONED ‘With a pencil line connect the dots In numerical order. DO®ODOHDDHDDHHHHDDIHDGHHHHDGOSPDIHDDHOGHGHOGODHOGOODGOPHHOGOHGDOSS: Teur ,Too OQDOOQOOOSOODODOOSOOS: Yesterday Tommy saw a cow, ’ Some Have It Thrust on "Em 66NVJOU remember selling me some hair restorer when I called the other day to get shaved, you hoary-headed old thief?" roared the indignant customer, “You sold it under false pretenses, sir. You said it would restore my head to its orig- inal condition.” “Well, didn’t it work?” asked the barber, “Work? No. It's taken off what little hair I used to have, amd I am as bald as the pavement now.” | “That's quite right, sir. No false pretense about that, I said it would restore your head to its original con- |dition, and you know, sir, most of us are born bald."—Philadelphia Public | Ledger, eae aS Se ah An Odious Comparison. | SW i} 2 was being examined in @ case in a Minnesota town where the defendant was ac- cused of breaking a plate-glass win- dow with @ large stone. He was | pressed to tell how big the stone was, but he could not explain, “Was it as big as my fist?" asked the Judge, who had taken over the examination from the lawyers in the hope of getting some results, “It ban bigger,” the Swede replied. “Was tt as big as my toy Batey* “Tt ben “Wee % as big ae my head?’ {#1 ban about 000980O9H098H00H00F00TOHONTTTHTTTHIHOTHHEHOHOGIOGLGHO}IHHOVIHVVWCGHHH}HOGHOWOOOOOWV § SOME OF THE DAY’S GOOD STORIES ® 0000000000000 0000000000 0000000000000 000000000000, laughter of all but the Judge.—Pitts- burgh Chronicle-Telegraph. oe Natural. HE artist and his friend dined well~and wined well also, ac- cording to the Kansas City Star. the artist's studio, where the host pointed out to his friend a beautiful landscape which be had just finished. “Wihat do you think of it, old man?" he asked, “I think it'@ beautiful, old chap, beautiful. So true to life. The trees wave about so naturally.” ld ass ll No Desire to Go On. PRISONER was in the dock on A a serious charge of sealing, and, the case having been pre- sented to the Court by the Prose- SCRAMBLED AS 0OY9 AR PY My saad cé ae After dinner they adjourned toy” « HOO9DHHOHDOOIOHOSIOOWOOOHVWES cuting Solicitor, he was ordered to stand up. “Have you @ lawyer?” asked the Court, (0, sir.” re you able to employ one?” 'No, sir.” you want @ lawyer to defend ‘ot partickler, alr." Vell, what do you propose to do about the case?” “Ww with a yawn, as if wearted “I'm willin’ drop the ‘Answers. Sora oooraee. Cost of Popularity. AVID LLOYD GEORGE, the British Minister of Munitions, was the idol of the trade union classes before the war, and he will probably be their idol again after the war, but Just now, on account of his EGG PUZZLE 8 DBDOQBDDOHDGHDQHOPHOGOGH®H®GH®WDHHHHOD®PGOOGHOOGWDOO No. 31, Before the letters in this egg were scrambled they spellea the name of something which lovers of either musio or flowers should be able to recognize. eee See If you can arrange the let- tee to epell what " a Oy yoked NA May 16, 19 wa we SECRET '5 ones On erm reemeine SF oe 16 By C. M. Payne’ WHY T THOUGHT You ) WuZ USIN' A __FILe !5— ) WHEN “THE SECOND HAM iN STARTS (LLGIVe HIM REAL BAWLING CUT you? | GOOHHDOHOOODSDOGHOGHOGHOOQOSS Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishi OHLGHIOGSE COC GOETS By Arthur Baer ¢ OMECAOEESTH? ning World PLOW OOO ing Co, (The "LL SHOOT THE NE: MAN wi cAus” uP advocacy of conscription, he ts un- der a cloud. Henry Taylor, the British Consul to Duluth, said of Lloyd George the other day: “If he's unpopular now It's because he was so very popular before, His case i like that of the young lad “‘What makes Marle go disliked? one girl asked another, “Why, don't you know? the other answered, ‘She got the most votes at the bazaar for being popular,’ "— | Washington Star, He Had the Range. VISITING minister preaching in @ small town near which a well-known race meeting is held forcibly denounced the “sport of kings.” The principal patron of the church always attended the home was afterward informed “I'm afrald I touched one of your weaknesses,” said the preacher, not wishing to offend the wealthy one; “but it was quite unintentional, I as- sure you.” “Oh, don't mention cheerfully retorted the backslider, “It's a mighty poor sermon that don’t hit me some- where."—Tit-Bits. Tact Lacked. ERMANY in her treatment of neutrals shows, to put it mildly, @ lack of tact,” said Dr. Clement Burns of San Francisco, ‘who worked with the American am- bulance eervice in Parts. “In ber tactleesness Germany is as meetings, and of this the stranger | offensive as the man at the New Year party. “A number of ladies were asked to make wishes at the party, and one wished for the finest house in New York, another for the finest jewels in Chicago, a third for the richest hus- band in America, and so forth and so on. “The tactless man listened to a dozen or two of these wishes, am then he roared out, impatiently: “'Great Scott! Don't any of you care for beauty?”""—Los Angeles ‘Times. CONAN, style, in two heights aforas¢ jeer DY & fo Bumstead’s Worm Syrup, ewes