The evening world. Newspaper, October 24, 1916, Page 18

ABOUT Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY. . ORDON JOHNSTONE and Samuel 8. ms are at Cas- tle Thunder, Rbove Nyack, the country home of Col. Gilford Hurry, finishing the lyrics and score of “The Dear, Black Rose," an Irish opera, which will be given a Brondway chance this season if all goes well. The story of the opera, which in ro- mantic, is the work of Mr. Johnstone and Warwick F. Williams, who wrote “The Bomb" for Wilton Lackaye. Gordon Johnstone, when the writer of this department first met him, was an actor. In his spare moments he used to write verse and it was always good. Lately he has done much mag- ezine work, and Mr. Krams and he have been responsible for a number of songs. FIELDS’S SON AN ACTOR. Herbert Fields, son of Lew Fields, ember of his father's “Stop He made his ys ago in the Young Fields age. in but eighteen ye BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Said Silas McGuggin, in Peewooplo's More: “The campaign cigar is a thing I deplore. It's tougher than rope smokes like a stick If I were to run for some twenty-five ones, you bet!-—and pass ‘em around | in a manner quite free. The smokers | would sure have a good friend in me. We ought to have laws to.mak candidate quit giving out stop’ Voters as bait, Bi an I came a ing out smoki beat for tough to my lot. 1 kept the blamed thing e right hot. I'll| I go out of here.” wneer, wald € replied Silas, pd McGuggin then left and Jed Peeweeplo amiled. Said he: “If Si heard me he'd got mighty rile, but I'll make a wager, in spite of his talk, be smokes it.” Said Grandpa: You'd win in a walk. POST IN TWO ROLES. Guy Bates Post is to play a dual role in Richard Walton Tully's pro- duction of “The Masquerader.” He will appear as both the dope fiend member of Parliament and the young Vterary man. The play will depart from the original story far enough tu make the two men cousins. REPAIRS FOR TWO SEATS. A ay © was leaving the 9 other night after of “Under Sentence” a hed Mike Selwyn, man- ager of the house, and said: Pex have torn my trousers on the enWhich neat?” asked the manager, bs the theatre's or the trousers'?” “Bot You ought to fix both eon i “You're right two ways,” replied) Mr, Selwyn. He then wrote out an order for a tailor to fix the sedt and instructed the theatre's carpenter to me thing—or, rather—well, | JAMES G, PEEDE A FATHER. A daughter was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. James G. Peede. The mother is known on the stage as Jean | oh, Mr, Peede is manager for | Richard Walton Tully's theatrical in- terests. Mother and child are doing well; father most rational again. | AN OVERCOAT TALE. (With apologies to K. ©, B) 1 LEFT my tenth floor APARTMENT this morning WITHOUT MY overcoat, ‘THINKING it was warm, BUT WHEN I went out I FOUND It cold, s0 L DECIDED to get my COAT, BUT the elevator CAUGHT A COLD, | did MUCH OBLIGED to youl Gossip, Johw Meehan has launched a stock company at the Cecil Spooner Thea- tre in the Bronx, Gerald Griffin is back on Broadway “"S'MATTER, WHAT Do You HENRY that could never be] esa and one of ‘em fell | | because of their color {t will loc | on the sideboard. after spending several months at his country home in Maine, A No “STRANGER ) A Dotiy Care A HANG FoR DANC Lng BuY Love “TH! LADIES “Yea Bo FLOOEY AND ALL RIGHT JASPER END OF SCENE! Copyrigh 1014, Prom Pumivwhing CoM Bvening World ) SUPPOSE MAES Smee NH yy Stacicant’ Hons -cut! Berens Erte Evening World Daily Magazine POP?” HASENPFEFFER D_ RATHER MEET Goop FELLER AXEL YOURE NOT GOING D<<< 75? 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HAPPEN “TO ANGER" PY “STRANGER f a as ~HER 1S THE COMEDY YCU Tom Barry is producing three new | acts for vaudey ‘Tom says they were all written by that rising young | author, Tom Barry, James Pooton has returned from) Arizona, where he went for his health, He 1s looking well, | The new song, “The Good Ship| Honeymoon,” has been introduced in|} the Hippodrome show with a scene showing twenty real motorboats, Taylor Holmes has declined an offer to smile through 1,000 feet of film for @ motion picture company, He wants to keep that smile on his face, Tho first dress rehearsal of “The Show of Wonders" will take place at | the Winter Garden to-night. The opening js set for Thursday. Florence Wa'ton will wear toc im imgs in the new Century show though she had ‘eft them at he a Eugene Walter is rewriting his! Play, “The Little Shepherd of King- dom Come.” The new version watt ‘be staged in the near future |father, a bo Frank R. Adams, co-author of the rs “Bast and Grow Fat," ig. ha ing published, ax a memorial to } called “Adams's Or’ he Fifth Avenue Pui |Hshing Company is getting it out. The first performance of “Business Hefore Pleasure,” the new farce by nd Mrs, George Randolph Chi which H, H, Frazeo 1s producin 1 be given to-night in Meriden, Conn Barney Bernard and Julian Tannen live in twin apartment butidings on Upper Broadway, and there is some talk of changing the names of the houses to Potash and Perlmutter, inal Sin FOOLISHMENT, she'd fatten; 1 will fatten!" FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. ‘A man who bets is no good," ‘And a man who doesn't bet 1s no pettor,” j BONEHEAD B MEBBE HES BEING INITIATED, OR. HE MAY HAVE LOST A BET. ABIG FoR. AGE- HE HAD BEEN TRYING To AMUSE HIS SISTERS BABY-. SO YOU'LL HAVE To EXCUSE HIM THIS TIME . 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