The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 18

About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY EAKING of things not to| worry about, the idea seems to | prevail that Marguerite Far-) who is singing ant dancing | ‘Step This Way!", ‘s a new- comer to musical comedy. This is wrong. Miss Farrel! lias been in ft before—possibly not very far in, but fn, nevertheless. She had the role of | Rose Green in the Souna opera, “The| American Maid,” which played the Broadway Theatre about three years | &go. To prove it, which Is, of course, | fmportant, we're going to quote from; Charles Darntpn's review of “The American Maid,” as follows: “As good luck and trresponsible youth will have it, Marguerite Farreil | fe natural enougb to be one of the, Irish Players at Wallack’s. And to} think of the likes of her calling her- gelf Marguerite, when it's Maggie or @ should be, I'm thinking! ‘8 like @ fairy from Ireland, dancing for wll the world as though ber fect were treading the sod her mother kept green, and with « @mile on her ips and « laugh in b eye that would keep a lad awake long @fter the stars have gone to bed” BIG TASK FOR BOWERS. Robert Hood Bowers bas been com @iasioned by William Vox to write @p elaborate musical score for the Bew Annette Kellormann picture. Ince the big film is to be shown in jew York within a fortnight, Mr. Bowers will have to work day and ight.to complete his task. Robert food Bowers is the coe Paee of “The “The Van- derbilt Cup, Wedding” @nd other pieces i | COULDN'T SPARE HIM. | Jack Merritt, the young actor now employed in the office boy depart- gent of the H. H. Frazee concern, | was cast for a role in thing but the Truth,” which Mr. Frazee recently @taged in Indianapolis, but he didn't @pen with the company. “You see,” said Jack, “Mr. Frazee peeded me here in the office, 80 he cut the part out.” i} IT’S MAJOR WALSH Now. | Lione! Walsh, who went to Wurope! to join « British regiment and was re- ported killed, is still alive. A letter from London says he has been ma Major. It was Lionel who, when) somebody mentioned Yonkers to him,| asked innocently: | “What are Yonkers?” ERROL OUT OF “FOLLIES.” Leon Errol won't be with the new edition of the Ziegfeld “Follies.” Fi eoveral years past Mr. Errol haa gisted in the staging of the “Follies.” This year Ned Wayburn was given the task alone and the comedian felt fhe had been deprived of ork that be- Jonged to him. So he quit. “BURIED TREASURE” JUNE 19. Cohan & Harris will try new comedy, "Buried Tr fing the week of June 19, at the Apollo Theatre, Atlantic City, In the | cast are Josephine Stevens, Adele | Rolland, Zelda Sears, Otto Kruger, | Ernest Stallard, Charles Browne, Martin J. Alsop, Thomas Williams, | Charles Dow Clarke, George ¢ Ton, Westcott B. Clarke, ¢ Splevin, Jess Kelly and Harry Hub- | bard. AMES ENGAGES WALSH. Winthrop Ames is beginning to Bhow signs of resuming his profes- @ional activity. He has ecngagod Townsend Waish as his general preas representative. Mr. Walsh will enter mn his new duties at the Little yeatre next August. Mr. Ames ta preparing to produce several plays ‘ext season. i PREPARE TO LAUGH. A. A. Galerastein of No, 61 Wall @treet ran plump into a joke the er night. After getting all the ughter he could stand out of it, A. A. sent it to the Candler Theatre box pfice in order that the young men ind the bara there might giggle ir heads off. Naturally you're wetting impatient, dear reader, ‘we'll Jet you in on the merriment Two men, according to A. A., after a@elebrating the discovery of the lorth Pole with a visit to a gilded and Comic i lficockcheliadeehend. 1, we Page R, POP?” June of THE EVENING © WORLD, Thursday. se 1916 By C.M. Payne | Tut He SAYS HE WANTED ONLY A TEENY-WEENY TIT: “PoP, His MouTH Now ‘AE WAS NO FIXED FOR A TEENY WEENY com nient FOE Pie Pubmuming Co Un 1 Rresing Wer) HENRY HASENPFEFFER —‘So the Great Mystery Will Forever Remain Unsolved! { TH’ MoRE “cK GEE OF “ WHY DANGONIT HES Been Tee MY UNCLE.” SAKE " TH’ MoRE ACYIN' GO Queer oF LATE! DoES HE “TALK £ TW WMSELF WHEN HES ALONE Hou setoud a | By Bud Counihan pee WUZ NEVER Sowewek BIM WHEN { He Wu ALONE ‘ He’ GoIN’ ot STL X_ CANT SAY eFOR =DEED I Do. @uRE THAT HES” DIPPY” ee = a I AINT Qourte SURE OF (T WoT MAKES YY THINK G0 ») —7_‘HEN® , a ae a \. F THINK Poartent. 4 Prem Punting Co (MT Bvenine Wort) gene BELIEVE ME FLOOEY, ay Got ALOT DF CREDIT COMING “TO ME FOR 90S GIANTS VINNING STREAK! AY HELPED To VIN @A LOT OF DAS 7 ag AS AMES ! =a MoGRaw ts YELLING AT CH COPY MEN 1816, Prom Puntishing Co (NY Bvanina Theatre. One of them saw the eloc- TO AID THE CRIPPLED. © 5 @DECOOOSOODODOOHHOTESDOOEOHODS tric sign which reads “Justice.” Now| phe Winter Garden's final a COMMPMBDDEDIOOOOD EGGS), ore hegencetnen the fanny Joke” lof the aeasin topo hed, Sunes | 8 ‘GOOD STORIES OF THE DA’ B'WHEN YOU WERE A BOY Juat ico!’ he suid, in| oaniites will fie tae Cee HeRRAL Rt tte | semua DonoumeaNDDEDEDDNEeseEDDOEeOS ©O9HGDHODOODSHHODIOCOOOOOO oesectntne Mints mn bitee a euoaenay Spee ens elaine | SOOO TE ample, {thst tate jou.e per of nant anal TEOR 35 » it Jolsor a 2 at alien ou 0 0 0 tn" ‘A ecream, eh? AND TAKE OFF ||WATER WAGON, THOSE WET THINGS || HE MuST HAVE eae FALLEN IN- ty WITH SOMETHING! HA “HAR ! Or ts it? tea at Hull House sald: “He was logically right, but, really, | “I disapprove of the new fash-|® Was wrong.” —Philadelphia Bulle. | jona because they encourage vanity, | “I know a little girl whose mother has gone in for all the new fashions— sheath ekirt, alit skirt, short skirt and what not. “This little girl's her said to her, reproachfully, one day: PUSHED 2 ( TRIED T] GET A HITCH ON A WATER. GOSSIP. The date for the Friars’ “Frolic” Iippodrome performance is June 9, It will be an Actors’ Fund benefit, The second annual June Revel, whatever that is, will be held at the aire next week. nd Edgar Smith Americanizing” a be Messra. Sbu- M*: JANE ADDAMS auras a! triumphantly through his spectacles. DUNN WRITES A GEM. Both his bosses being out of town, Eddie Dunn, press agent and poet of the Cohan & Harris forces, has made bold to write a poem. It ‘is ple a child may read and unc it, and yet there Isp A Long Day \ among: MI WAGON- AN’ THE Js was grieving because he had, MAN. TURNED ON EASILY, no gift for his mother's birth- day, relates the Knickerbocker THE SPRINKLER. ress, => my in grip. ping something wbout tt that compels ambied along West Forty-second et and stopped near the Candler admiration for its author, Here it| bert ““But, my dear, don’t you want to fe. Read and marvel: | Pavlowa in “Phe Dumb Girl of Por-| row UP Bo that everybody will look, “Do not quarrel with little sister tie” will be shown at Loew's Ameri. |Up to you? {all day,” suggested randinother, can Theatre and Roof the firat halt| ‘No, ma‘am,’ eaid the youngster,{ “That would be the best gift she| of next week im conjunction with |decidedly. ‘I want to grow up so that| Could have,” John agreed, } vaudeville, everybody will look ‘round at me.’ "— ‘Can't you see how much mother | Thomas A. Wise will return to| Chicago Record-Herald enjoyed your gift, John?" asked | vaudeville at the Wa Mouday in ———»—_—_. |grandmother at night. “Why don't you do this every day? _|"Phe Christmas Letter,” a playlet of With a pencil connect dots in numet , 3 : a ge refs ihe CEPHODHODHOOOOHOOQGSOSEOQOSOOS Cmverigts Amt Pre PARAM C8 OT rening Wenig John drew a breath that came from | his very boots, “I'd rather die, Nke this every vently. For the Ultra Precise. HE late Prof, Thomas R. Lowns- JU bury said at Cambridge in a talk on English: “But precision can be carried too far. Tho ultra precise, oven when logically right, are really wrong. theatrical life, write: Ralph Kohn, after having undergone marriage, is back at his desk in the Woods offices, Ralph aays that all bachelors are dead and don't know tt, THIS POET LOSES, A poem entitled "The Actor's Work” | has been ived at this office, It is by Roy Atwell. dma, than live he said fer- | day!" saci isi The Popular Authoress. it a stringy looking lady go- CODODS rical order. Tuesda: ROOSTER. jsigned N. G. and that's what ét 1s,—| “Am Uultra-precise professor went ing by over there ts our | Belden (lowa) Review into a hardware shop and sald: Well known authoress!" tri- - * ‘Bho ‘ahears, DI umphantly stated the landie e FOOLISHMENT. MON: a8 :® Messe, Pl peae: Petunia tavern, a aS) tea in Gray once do "You mean a pair of shears, don't! amet Judge. | Marin Gras once downed a drink Her contributions are printed ‘in the xe mtg you? said the dealer bie newspapers all over the c a’Uiink ie right to aay “No, sald the professor. ‘I mean! gro ts an old. matd. P SOURErE: | | That ie driuk Swried Marty Gray what leay, I mean & shears! se, an colt maid, Her name is) FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, |) cne (alr took down a box of! range > not remember | ? | Hedwig Perwinkle -Massachusetts| ‘Look here, Professor, be satd avin ‘Y va ners r boots and shoes, “aren't there two blades here? And | write—poetry at does she — kooptonAnd Kentucky ts don't two make a pair?’ test | | iio ? : é € for shoots and booze ‘Well, you've got two legs. Does f ‘most |coldly, “and she thought she'd sena| name weel enough. D'ye no’ say! man, as he frowns at bs — ——— | Than flesh is iil to yer a bit of it this afternoon, just to| when ye come tae oor house at nicht, | was beginning ty th MOIEMAMNNO A | take the edge off yer appetite before] ‘Hetty, bring me some toddy?' * Cle x meditating.” MYSTERY. EPisode i ~ "4 A she posted any boxes off to her} The’ congregation, forgetting the| 7 | SCRA MBLE D EGG PUZZL ES Taking Precautions, friends,"—London Tit-Bits. sacredness of the place, broke into a| ” | OOo X aN —— >—-- loud laugh, and the parsyn look An Ea & ROSY -CHEBKED — youngster, | | daggers. "| a ue | Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Go. (Ty Breuning World.) 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