The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 18

Home About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY [HE Hippodrome show, “Hip, Hip, Hooray!" will close on Saturday, June 3, after its @6th performance. Originally it was ‘Charles Dillingham's plan to continue the big spectacle through the sum- ‘mer, but he changed his mind. It Was found that the work of rehears- ing next season's production could hot be carried on unhampered while two performances of “Hip, Hip, Hoo- ray!" were being given dafly, Dur- ing June and July R. H. Burnside will require the big playhouse in its entirety in preparing the new show. “Hip, Hip, Hooray!” will be put in @hape to tour the large cities next @eason. It has broken all records for ‘fettendance at the Hippodrome. AN ALL-NEGRO PLAY. William Harris jr. has arranged to Produce a play in which all the char- @cters are negroes, It is by Laurence Byre. No name has been selected for it. The scenes are laid in New York and in the South. No attempt be made te make a burlesque out of @he story. The play tells a tale of Megroes in a dignified manner. The @ast will include Edna Aug, Marion Abbott, Mrs. Stuart Robson, Edna May Oliver, Lottie Alter, Harry Blakemore and Walter Walker. They will all use burnt cork. QUIGMILLER COULDN'T PAY. “T am Christolph Quigmiller of Harlem. I have lived in New York Qwenty-two years and have never @een a picture show,” said an elderly @an with long whiskers at the box office of the Globe Theatre yesterday afternoon, “I don't Sihate Games food nt. - Svar, T’have oeen Bille Burke on the @tage and would like to see her on the screen. Here's a proposition: FU go in and see the show. If it pleases me I'll come back here and pay at half a dollar, What do you 'You're on,” replied Henry Young, the theatre's treasurer, He permitted Mr. Quigmiller ¢o en- fer the theatre without a ticket. An hour and a half later the elderly man returned to the box office window. ‘He was worried. “I Mked the show all right,” he said, “put I fear I can’t pay you.” “Why not?” asked Mr. Young. Mr. Quigmiller began searching through his pockets. “I've lost the half-dollar your press agent, Mr. Heath, gave me to hand you,” he said, “ETA” IN AUGUST. The plan to produce the Japanese omic opera, “The Romance of the Eta," in June has been abandoned. The production will be made in Au- st. This opera was written by rs. Mary Lee Werthheimer. Geo: lumenthal has been engaged jeneral Manager of the Eta Produ ing Company. @ OUR OWN POPULAR 80NG8. The oun yas, shining, brightly om « balmy eum Moet 2, 0aRy, rent T saw some children at rf wethe phamed Peanuta Zwick decided he About “his fear Zwick, the man he id Be: ‘My dad's’ @ barber and he's shared Band o ‘oan ized blo a tip and sald Vnes’¢ < @weet aly Mink, a Nttle girl, gave quite « x ‘Ae z } ef oF Hesse Mealy's lipe these words Chorus, Sh om He many houses And never leaves a clue, hi Don't bout your papas, ie 5 faa" burglar's’ child, «The lg lla el pedlae sits look ‘ acevo vere hie heed in Mealy, dear!” be murmured, cite One, to fave’ e burglar for 4 daddy—see, ‘Te fathered ‘round_pweet little am + , pnd yelled, although mot one Owen 3 ydida't ‘ya word until they stopped ‘ vant OR, GLI te sheet Oho +My daddy te burglar,” de, CAST FOR “MR. BAZARUS.” * In the cast & “Mr, GLazarus,” the comedy by Harriet Ford and Harvey O'Higeins, are Henry EK. Dixey, Florine Arnold, Willlam T. Clarke, Tom Powers, Eva Le Gallienne and Marle Ascaraga. The play will be firet performed in New Haven June 8, May 25; 1916 et BY Gonuies THE TOY MEANS IT and Comic Page of THE EVENING WORLD, Thursday, S’MATTER, POP?” we hd WeLL AT pi Legs I FounD A CAN NEARLY FuLt oF GASOLINE IN THE, EMPTY FLAT e Some one HAS Been TRLLING 1m ABOUT THE Price of GASOLINE COP YHENL INE, Prone Puttaming Co (NY Rvontng Worley | HENRY HASENPFEFFER-— It Was a “Short” Lobster—Short on Claws. AW! Here Ir Comes! Gol DWGIT—T Do Uke MY oLE “Jou” LOBSTER ~ \N FACT FAVORITE FIGH- DEED rr id! AINT GoTTA_ DAWNGONE LAW ON IT! Hows THAT? X DiW'NT ORDER A CRIPPLE FLOOEY AND AXEL-— Will, Axel Didn’t Bet He Was Gonna HIT the Ball! BAT SO? Ay VILL BET You TEN BucKs AY GET “To FiIRSY Base! SEE? Castles-by-the’ Sea, at Long Beach, | was formally opened for the season! last nigbt. Pierre and Cantone are the managers. Many Broadwayites! were In attendance, A Hawaiian id Gossip. Hussey and Boyle have been en- d for “The Passing Show of ed John DEDHODOHOHGODOODHOOGHODOOHOHGEEGDODHEFGDHSGOSECDEGOHECSETOHEG 8SCOQOOOOGIONDOSOOS™S ‘f 3 9 § YOU! By Arthur Baer 7 > WHAT TOMMY COCOIOMEMECESHO Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) Matt Hanley has repli. Cope in Mrs. Fiske's play, “Erstwhile | Was a feature of the entertainment. Susan.” me Savoy and Brennan, comedians, 80 WILLIE WEPT. have been added to the cast of the! Willie Marshall didn't get to go to new “Follies, Broadway hears that the new Inter. the picture show yesterday afternoon, because he swallowed the dime his nationartircult may take over Keith's | mother gave him for it. That's wh) Bronx Theatre, he was bawling.—Leesville (Col.) Frank Moulan has returned from] Light. St. Louis, where he spent several months in musical stock. t A new breakfast food now being made by a concern in Kentucky {s called the “Irvin 8. Cobb." Make your own comments! Robert Stodart, President of the) GOD SAVE THE KING! Katharine Cripps, a chorus gin! who has appeared in a number of musical shows, has gone to Missouri to marry @ man who calls himself the Sausage King. She says she has retired from the stage ahd will stay at home and cook for her husband, Playwrights’ Club, has been asked to serve on the new Committee of Fifty of the Drama League. Lily Langtry will appear in a play- ! let called “Ashes” at the benefit for sant ea MORI PHRENT, buyer,” crippled French sokiiers arranged by) aii a'ean naumd Garin’ Duper Julia Marlowe for to-morrow after- f knows, noon at the Shubert, = On Saturday there will be a special evening of mifsic and dancing at the FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. SENT THAT YOUNG BRAT FOR MY SHOES ONE HOUR. AGO. HE'S AS FAST AS A FADING CoLor WHY DON'T ¥ WEAR MY Good PAIR . YOU WERE Neighborhood Playhouse. Mme. lsona “That dentist should be a good de Bit, pupil of Daleroze and Lech. | poker player.” echinsky, will appear on the pro- “Why gramme. “He draws and fills so well,” A BOY By Jack Callahan $ (8 GOOD STORIES OF THE DAY ® 199H0990999090000088090HOONDDDOOOIOOGIGOTOTIEGSGHOGD | ©00099H0I9HHITITIAIHONSOILODOHOOOOVOTEBEREAODTEDOONS of contra ctlon—I repeat, we should find by that particular arithmetical The Unwelcome Truth. MAYBE HE U— DIDN'T YA oe 1 BET HE WENT 66 88 BRADDON, the English] formula, hereinbefore mentioned— Late AON Te COULDN'T GET To THE SHOE MAKER, novelist who has just died,” and, sir, Z take all reaponelbility, for “ ‘statement Lam abou — TAKE HIS Time,| {THEM THROUGH) | wHo Gives You sald oe publisher, madetinat the sum of two given added to ‘| | THE Door. A PENNY - HIS $500,000 out of her books, her PUD-lihe other two would be four.’ No, ) THEN HWE WouLd . nN Moher's share being $1,500,000, " finished the Httle man coldly; {HAVE HURRIED ) ————~ - “Miss Braddon’s great success, she|"I ‘do not believe in lawyers.”—Tit- BACK, fonce told me, was due to her avoid. | Bits. _ What's Keeping ’Em Out. ance in her books of truth, Truth, she said, is the one thing the average ee og er” OR MAYBE HE's LETTING HIS . 4 novel reader doesn't want, lor truth, > 0 GIRL TRY ‘Em Dovel renees ocean's ¥ PHILADELPHIA editor says} a Mu o ait, "ia ow aN t th ‘Iway station from which he O'Brien were having an argument of| gently plucking Casey by the sleeve, see illustrated her’ point by a wite eet SPAT Fropman, hat rol ae the rallway thelr own at Breckinridge treet and You don't want to fight; T oan tell it 10 nus 3 off on | a's Orel cc Avenue, Lt ha rogressed | b ur looks, Your face is too be- "George, how do you like the new|ingt voyage, joked @ good deal about | rit Coa a ee fact 90 ale t Pr ‘AA be rival and the purse was kept uatll hig return @ month later, It was a young clerk who handed Jockie MacF, his wee purse with the to the extent that each had forgotten | n| — ‘Two be nine! Two be nine, is ut, scut?” bellowed Casey. “Me face two be nine, is ut?” shade I've had my London what it was about bed pon ws 4 and they were wholly oblivious of the gathe: yr ing crowd until an urbane nna @entee) In. theatres in war time. The London revu he sald one “have funny names—'Come Over tell you the truth’ “ ‘stop right there, ia George,’ his wife | ‘ d | rigt | Here’ and ‘Sto . “spondies” as he set foot of the/ person in @ frock coat put in, And there was where the real Tats aula ttt | Uneaten | eat ga, Seta wg eg warg| "Come, come nv ean” he salt, [truble eas don't want to hear Vashing- | of these thinly attended revues would making the young man’s heart beat! ton Sta: be ‘What's Keeping ‘Em Out? { s i | Hut our canny Scot counted bis: G6@e@reeosarraareeseaaoos a Phe last revue [ visited the audi- , ° GO} phe la | money unheeding—and when he'd tin- | @ HP PIOOOESOOOOOOOOOOODOSOOE No Faith in Lawyers, /Snii {2%{ly numbered bundred. 1) iain’ ye looked up long and waspi-|@ | SCRAMBLED EGG PUZZLES 8 + [maid to the manager consolingly: | Ctousiy nt the YOUN, Man. 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Philadelphia Bulletin, | yacFaddy's stern retort-—Edinburgh Betore the letters in thie egg pa lawyer never says right eit: od Review, were scrambled the: led the out what ho means” retorted the | More Coming to Him. ey eT name ef something which eaye ro F Gui so, Hucbose ie wediea | MERHERE wea no doubt about the Hunting Trouble. much yet r talke, two and two T Jack Macladdy was HEN «a man just naturally | § Scotsman, Last year, when wants trouble it is mighty easy ere ) dourneying to the country on an tins to find an excuse for making of two { two, should find Pertant errand, he left his purse, con-' jt, says the Loutsville Times, Ac- |—end 1 eay this boldly, without fear tajuing uearly $600 ju wold aud silver, cording te Mike Hogan, Casey aod