The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1916, Page 12

About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY 1SOOOS Bt HARLES DICKSON, who hasn't atrical author since he wrote “The Three Twins," has placed two Rew musical pieces, both of which Will probably pe seen in New York ext season. One is “The Cave Lady,” fa which Clifton Crawford will have the principal role. The Messrs, Shu- bert will produce it. ‘The music is by y Olson, ve other one is “Thin! a comedy with music which H H. Frazee lias contracted to produce In “Thin Ice" will appear but twelve persons, six of whom will be chorus girls, This piece is said to be rather | risque. It is sald some daring cos- tumes Will be displayed by the women, | FILM /'* CUT OUT. | Speaking of the reaque, the Strand) Management has aided that the) Famous Players film, “The Evil Thereof,” written by Channing Pol- | lock and Rennold Wolf, shall not be rhown at that theatre next week, as | anes) was contemplated. Managing ‘DI- | rector Holfe and his associates at the! Strand said the picture was risque. | Daniel Frohman and others of the! Famous Players concern diifered with him, It was decided to put the question to @ vote of twelve women. The women gathered in a projec- tion room yesterday afternoon and saw the film run, The Strand people say Mr, Frohman had three extra women there, making the total num- der fifteen, When a voto was taken it was nine for the film and six against it. However, on the claim that the extra three women sent there by Mr. Frohman had voted for the movie, the Strand people called the vote 6 to 6 und decided not to show the pleture, “The Evil Thereo!™ tcils| @ story of an old rove who gives a| dinner to six young women. As souvenirs each girl receives a vanity box containing a hundred-doilar bill, A UNIQUE PLAN. David Belasco is considering a plan to out out the Fi ay and Satw y performances of “The Boomerang’ the Belasco Theatre and contin the play throughout the summer, Several members of the cast, notably Wallace Eddinger, wanted vacations, and as a compromise Mr, Belasco suggested that performances be given on Mon. days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays only. Final action in the| matter ts yet to be taken. The step) would be new to Broadway the- atricals. DODGE HAS A “KISS.” Wendell Phillips Dodge, David Bel- asco's well-groomed press arent, has decome a member of the Columbia Yacht Club on the strength of the purchase of a sloop. To celebrate his @lection to the club Mr. Dodge gave @ party the other night and a fine time Was had, He announces that he has named the helpless eloop “Il Bacio,” which in some European language—Spanish, probably—means “a Kies.” Oh, shucks! CAN SHE RIDE—WELL! Belle Storey, ainging at tho 1 was asked by the theatre ma ment to he more careful in her h back riding while under contra sing at the Keith Theatres. “Don't ride so fast,” suggested the manager. “If you were to fall off and break your neck all concerned would at and Comic “’S’MATTER, POP!” COOH TE Pree Pranaing Co oucn! cow! ocu!l MM Dawcone Wh? + N® + Ovrrcu I! FLOOEY AND AXEL Page (nv Promng Panes & & st OP WHicH id THe FRONT THIDE OFA Pink ’ oPrPos Q HENRY HASENPFEFFER —The Razor Might Shave Other Beans, bt Not Henry’s! Say “mAa" = WoNDER WoT MAKES MY New RAZOR So DAWGONE Y'RETTER PACK UP AN'COME ALONG UnTH ME TO THE “PREPAREDNESS CAMP" AT PLATTSCURG AXEL! GEE~ YKNow MAYOR MITCHEL MAY BE. THERE AN WE-MIGHT GET T'KNow Him! Aw - VOT Care ABOUT maAYoR MITCHEL _ THe FRONT OF A PILL Dd 1§ THe Oe] & ARLING PART Diffectiy (Te To THe Bacw ABs Bsn Las — yale N wHicH tH THe BACH OF A of THE EVENING WORLD, Saturday, June 3. 1916 ~- & ws DARLING ‘ATS WoT =< GAD {TS “DULL AD AN’ OLE Boor t bo AY eu I THe Bact oF A PILL 1S THe PART DiRectry (OPPOSITE Yo THe FRONT Payne cod & - ‘By C. M. Tee of THIRD Her - SOMUCH “PIRACTICE frinie va — ITS GITTIN' AS | ALMOST IMPOSSITSLE/ TANGEE HIM UP ANY MORE ¢ md Seat aed | we SHY IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AN’ “@HARP” WHEN OPENED A CAN OF BEANS WITH \T “Two-Day ¢ =-aW YOuGHTA SEE THE. PICTURES OF THE DAMES “THEY GOT To Cook ouR MEALS FOR inconvenienced.” “Hal” replied Miss Storey. en sup- pose you want me to ride a ho eels Not for me! I'm from Blanche Yurka will be tn charge of a flower booth at the Allied Razaar, which opens at Grand Centra 1 Palace sourt, and I can r any critter wi to-night. four few. I'll never be hurt by Billy Tower, of Tower and Darrell horse. now on the Loew cireult, says he If I don't show up to you just figure that the motor 8 to emulate Bow yuenend it to: Ne!" lotta g Gan bdllee tans take x Jong horeaien ed me up. Ha! ho! hi! he! Italian tenor, has re. [GGn- Miles and ta arneny Meaning into. ie wate: York after twenty-| Jang Priscilla Sousa, the Marc RL A eta vaudeville, While in} will leave Monday ‘for Washin stuff and a yell that would have } and Charley Chaplin |atuppine wlone tine Ww credit to Pandit Tke, the Rip-Tip| bad a motion picture taken of theme |opping long the way to play golf, Roarer of Pike County, Missouri, who) selves and Chaplin gave the film to[ qe eanee Syma the maces at Havre can whip his weight in wildcats, | the singer Washington June 12. Last night was repr Louls 1. O'Shaughnessy has left} Sousa night at the Hippodrome. A GossiP. the Hippodrome publicity department | dozen composers, friends of the band- Jeanne Eagles bas gone to Kansas | and kone to Chicago to assist in the} master, were in the audience. The ity. Frances Starr will open in her new play June 12 in Atlantic City. Mitzi Hajos, in "Pom-Pom." will] YES, IT WAS THE THEATRE, _ | {"0M all sides, and had picked off al- Walter Messenger Is now booking | open Sept. 3 at the Iilinols Theatre,| ne theatre was destroyed by tirs| Ost all of his feathers, As his visiting dates for the summer, Tio | ¢ erate for an indefinite ensus in Mason City last night. The local ers came they heard him saying: wishes it known he's a good parlor} Woat ‘he original company will go liveryman saved his horass and wag- Don't be in @ hurry, gentlemen. entertainer. vie ‘ . ta co burned Shei.|One at a time. Don't push! Don't “The Blue Paradise” will close next| David Blaufex's new act, “W hen | gne than) Recorder Te el shovel Sake your timel Where ate Saturday with a record of 363 per-| the Worm Turned,” 4 now in re. |4 daw good ones ledt|seEverecdy! formances, It will reopen in August, | hearsal 7it.is & clean comedy with a FOOLISHMENT, ee ern Otto Motzan ts writing some of the | Tt Ot Aah people and @ very in- Me jored a peach nai r Long-Winded for the now “Passing Show of | “qno iriure have changed the date Tt ant hand iy : . Rupert Harvey, playing tn ‘Jus. |Of thelr final New York performar Bho was of bila eye, N the days of bis youth Senator P LA alsa Se of the “Frolic” from June 9 to Blackburn of Kentucky was intends to go to England when |untay, June 10, at FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, Tat snes ‘ts run, and jolu the| The switch was necessary be Wen) “Mamma, | guess you'll have to "i | dates made for Sp: 5 ; Ds tL George Telph ts railing for London | fite* Made for Springtold and Har act foe Home on me, to go to war, If all goes well he will Koro Players o' ro “I've Ko y ato! vrong ah WAN AE all abet s f the Young “I've got my stockings on wrong 7 I DONT WANTA MENTION ANY NAMES - BUT- SOME ~ 4 Bopr ‘Rouno Here OucaTa] ) THAT LEARN THE RULES OF iz THIS SAE) menor He's Always DOWN’ SOmErHING Rivicurous! INS SimPiy TERRIBLE! EA Cad THE WEISENHEIMER PERSON WHO WON'T STAY DEAD WHEN HE'S DUMMY- BUT INSISTS ON PUTTING iN HiS OAR ON THE PLAY. y| went to sche ress work for the du Pont Prestdon- tal boom, tf he can find it LAY OFF ON HAND STurF! THIS AINT NO } CHARITY PER FORMANCE! Now, Jonny Dont YOU INTERFERE AN ) MAKE A Scene! John the Hippod Hebrew SAY!- SIT DOWN, You, AN’ KEEP ‘YOUR HANDS OFF THAT DUMMY! You GOT NO RIGHT TO Touck THEM, CARDS AT ALL! YouR PARDNER’S PLAYIN’ THEM HELPIN' Association of Hor- side out." OAOGOOTCGG #118 101016. Kk 19 to present “Mext The pro tlon's building fund, SOUSA ON A HORSE. Philip Sousa Hippodrome closes to-night. By Ferd G. Long DDOOOEOVS) stic Theatre next Satur ds will go to ADMODNAADIOANDHD* (BEG YouR, PARDON Bur- ISN'T THIS | THE ONE You | WANTA PLAY. WY DONT You LEAVE 2 OO» C 2 GooD 3 Force of Habit. PARROT had spent most of his time in the box office of a thea- tre and had learned a good many of the words and phrases com- mon to that One day he was missed from his accustomed perch, and after @ long search was found in @ tree in the middle of a field. Ne was surrounded by a flock of crows, which were attacking him | asked by a friend to second a duel, Ho consented, and at the next sunrise the parties met, It was Mr. Blackburn's duty to say the last word concerning the terms of the duel One of the Senator's colleagues re- cently sald at @ Washington dinner that although Mr, Blackburn falth- fully performed the duty, the duel never took place. A murmur of “Why not?" round the table at this remark “For a very simple reason,” contin- ued Mr. Blackburn's — colleague. went “When Joe finished speaking {t was |too dark for a duel,"--Washington Post. > —_ Roped and Tied. | HE men engaged tn cutting off the ends of protruding ties on the elevated ratlways were ex- STORIES OF QHDOODDGDODODGHGOHGOWODOHOGDOODHOODO AVN | pleitky instructed, for the sake of tn- t passers-by on the street below, never to allow a piece of tle to fall to |the street without @ rope attached to It. | One day as the end of a tle was THE DA DOOQDOWOGOHODOHODDVOIWAG sawed off the man on the job threw the rope, tie and all into the street. “Hy, there, what'er you doin'?” yelled an indignant foreman, “Ye told me not to let anything down to the street widout a rope at- tached," rejoined the man, in a surly tone. “Well, ain't L obeyin’ orders?” Philadelpbia Public Ledger. pRB Bett Seeking Expert Opinion. CHICAGO business man, with many relatives, some of whom were well-to-do but grasping, recently sought the services of his lawyer to draw up his will, When, after much labor, the document was completed, the client asked: “Have you fixed this thing, as 1 wished it, tight and strong?’ “I have done my best,” said the lawyer. “Weill,” continued the client. “1 want to ask you another thing—not professionally, however, As a friend, snd man to man, who do you think stands the best chance of getting tho property when I am gone?"—Harper's Weekly. (la The Hopeless Pessimist. LIHU ROOT, fust after his Phii- adelphia speech, said to @ Phil- adelphia reporter: “Despondent about our business tu- ture? Why, young man, nobody could be despondent about that except a confirmed pessimist, “A cheery, brave fellow said to a pessimist “At , at last, I'm at the end of my troubles!’ “‘Which end? aatd the pessimiat frowning!” — Philadelphia. North American, Sane eee Whirlwind, the Drummer. HEY were talking about a prom ising young man who h failed to make good as a trav- elling salesman, The first man said to the other man: “It was queer about that boy, He COMDHOOOALD HN DARMAIANATOIAIABVAAVADHRAAGAADS SCRAMBLED EGG PUZZLES O} MAGOXPODODODHOOOOVISOODA.) ng Co, (The New York Evening World.) EGG NO. 39. Before the letters in this eqg were scram they spelled the name of many name: ee 8 See if you can arrange tho let: ters to epell what they originally did. The scrambled letters in Thureday'’e ega saelied “GUN- POWDER," EDBODDOTIDHIEDIHDOSAGHS: @ WHEN YOU WERE THE TIME You PAINTED THE KIDS INEXT DOOR AS INDIANS. MAMA, HE USED THAT OLD PAINT, ie HAROLD 10 UT. IT- HE DIDN'T ae PUT (T ON HIMSELF. CAUSE HE WAS A CowBoy, oF Fecemed to be a regular whirlwind His first trip was a rattling success, but all he brought back from his se ond trip was a bunch of fresh ex cuses, | “What was it you called hima whirlwind?” “T gee, and all ‘wind’ at the finis jland Plain Dealer, All ‘whirl’ at the beginning | seve- | A Retroactive Blessing. BOSTON man tells of an old- | time deacon !n Massachusetts | known for the lengthy blessing which at his table was the unfailing | prelude to every His hired |man, Tom Morgan, an unconverted jand impatient youth, had fallen into | the habit of commencing his meal be- } fore the blessing had been fully in- | voked, | ‘The frown and rebuke of the deacon meal, were of no avail in effecting the de- sired reform. |the deacon at to this tion | “For what we are about to receive, and for what Thomas Morgan has al ready received, accept our thanks.”"— Bt. Louis Post-Dispatch, i ODOODAOD: BOQDOODDHDOODOHDHSDNECOOOANS IMRS. MOWSER= TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR. SON'S LANDSCAPES, INE USED THREE BARS REMOVE IT. MUST HAVE MIXED THE PAINT WITH VEN Do VE ‘\ START ?>) A BOY (LL TELL HIS FATHER, ABOUT IT. n} ‘ SOAP AN? | CAN'T HE KNOWS. HE CONCRETE. JIOOOOOG you?! Copyright, 1916, by The Vrevs Mubliatun , wetnevee, YOU aren A HURRY 1) SET sHavep |