The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1916, Page 16

[ABOUT | Plays and | Players | | By BIDE DUDLEY | READER has written us to ask why theatres, available for regular productions, have been 50 ce this season There are sev reasons, One pictures have the Liberty, the York from the spoken on Christmas is the film. M taken the Lyr Broadway and tun list of houses w drama Is offered, ar Day the Cardinal Film Corp ‘Will Install its Geraldine Farrar “Joan the ef Arc” picture in the Forty-tourtn | Suect Theatre. | A film man wants to show his big feature in the Broadway district, Whether or not It makes money in New York way adv great de hout the is the theatre. “What do you consider @ satisfaa- r week for he asks. replies the thea- 8 you $3,000, doesn't it?” our house on a long-term | 0 a week.” tre man's house expenses are cut down and there Is ne risk tn {t for him. The chances are, he ac- ‘8 the offer, and thus the spoken drama is denied the use of another roadway theatre. Another reason is the unusual eag- erness of the spoken drama managers to produce this season, Poople are not going abroad; they are coming to 2 York, and money ts plentiful. These facts are making it possible for almost any play with any merit at all to do a paying business in New | York, The result ts th her of failures ts. down to the low limit. There are about twenty productions waiting for New York openings. A avel-known theatrical man predicts that more of the theatres will be housing two shows each noon, as the Cort and Thirty-ninth Street have been doing. STAGING “PALS FIRST.” J. Fred Zimmerman to-day placed fn rehearsal at the Globe Theatre “Pals First.” a play by Lee Wilson Dodd, It t# a dramatization of the tory of the same name by Francis Perry Eliott, William Courtenay heads the cast, which includes For- rest Robinson, Edith Luckett, Lystor Chambers, Marlon Kerby, H.W. Blackmore, Francis Conlon and Frank Kingdon, SHUBERTS ACCEPT A FARCE, The Messrs. Shubert have accepted arly production a new farce by s. Annie Crawford Flexner entitled Yanted, an Alibi,” BY WAY OF DIVERSION. When father plays pool he pretends ho's eo cool and part of the time father is. He says that our game here at home 1s too tame, He has an idea he'x a wiz, With mother and me he will joke merrily as long as his count ) 1, But let us win out and he'll ut and say that the ad. If 1 miss a shot a lot. He tells mo I Ma gota a rebuke if h a Jay she hay ns to fluke tells her to learn how te y. B t father miss end its tha {t's this that caused his aim, It's either him to fall in D ¢ or the table's not true, for 8 mastered the game. Ono , When he lost, on the tab 1a dollar and wanted to Ho hasn't got over it whole week Pa and Ther i ver had a wasn't a fool WISDOM FROM THE WALLS. | Some of the chorus girls at the “Hipp 4 © best mout perlodi “A muste hater !s a person who Stkes to hear songs without words Bung to musto without sound." He who blows his own horn sel- organ 19 a dentists [__comre race | FVening World Daily Magazine mete ren a ST ie ; . And the Next Thing We Know It Will Be Called You say THey | DONT “PRovi dE bea ae |NO SIR, THE CHILD 4 “S'MATTER, POP?” by @ French Nome! +15 PA AND MA SAVED UP MONEY AN! OUGHT \\\ > A talline d WITH SUPPER? THEY @ ob | THEY HAveNT Gave Him at. a) ene vs | A T3ITE OF SUPPER To J BAT SINCE ~~ HENRY HASENPFEFFER RACIOUS HENRY Wot eR ARG “DoW! IN CTH’ J kitten 2 F ty! WoT CHA INK xX. WUZ2 OPENIN’ oF, Bie KNOW IS OReNIN' (T Act Prever! WOT ARE You OPenin’ Fr WITH Dear? ‘FEATURING FLLOOEY ano Axe. le , IN, Pirates Goud REEL 1) AN INDUSTRIOUS KNITTER, * 66] NEVER saw a more industrious woman than that Mrs, Cram,” the teacher remarked the Kentucky mountain boys and girls @athered at the school dinner table. “Why, even when I meet her on the road she pulls her yarn and needle: out of her pockets and goes Pract ing.” Teacher's manifestations in prixe brought forth a volley of nod lations from the children, camp of whom had mother, aunt or opus who was equally | ard working, oe “Oh.” exclaimed one little fellow, reaching the cliinax of the discussion, “I had a grandmother who was ths knittiest woman I ever knowed. She TIM TWANT YoU TO MEET TOM SEES OFS A REGULAR, NIX! THIS 1s ON ME- PLEASED To MEET YA’.? more than one appreciative GOSSIP. Sir Charies Wyndham wants to pro gu “The Man Who Came Back" in * will end tts engage- | LONEY VISITS THE BoYS FROM THE CHESTNUT TREC “My uncle w used to take her knitting to bed with her, and every few minutes she woke up and throwed out a pair of socks.” —Harper's Magazine, : ————— THE DIFFERENCE, ISHOP NAPTHALI “LuUCCOCK Was talking in Helena about . golfers: “A Sunday golfer,” he sald, “r the bell at a manse Sunday morning }and asked to leave her golf sticks there during the service, "I can hardly let you do that,’ the minister, Wy? “But, the Sunday golfer objectes ‘you've got a sign on the hureb poteh | to the effect that bicyclists can leave thelr machines at the manse during 80 haven't | ma‘am, I have,’ the mintater answ ‘You ean ride to church jon a bleycla, you know, but you can't on a golf stick—unless you happen to | be & witch." "Washington Star, Aupuson BALtroom Broadway at 166th St, LONDON TAPS AND ALL THE NEWEST DANCES Tevaht by Qualified Ina Ladion and Gentinnen ereete™ AUDUBON BALLROOM DANSE STUDIO Oven 114, Me to Mitotane, PRIVATE LESSONS §0¢ ve BB CENTS ba DANCING TOM SPENDER HAS A MILLION FRIENDS. HE'S KNOWN ALL OVER TOWN AS A REGULAR FELLOW- WHEN ANYONE |S OUT IN Tom's COMPANY - THE ONLY THING THEY'RE ALLOWED TO SPEND |S THE EVENING. THATE To ASK Yu Tom. BuT MLL PAY IT ’ HIS NAME 1S VERY FITTING: HE'S SO USED To RIDING IN TAXIS HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE INSIDE OF A TROLLEY LOOKS LIKE. HE IS THE ORIGINAL FRIEND IN NEED, WHEN IN HARD LUCK YOU CAN ALWAYS GET A HELPING HAND FROM Tom. TOM: THE BABY NEEDS) ANEW 4/ PAIR OF SHOES —, AT HOME HE'S AS GENEROUS AS A JANITOR. IS WITH STEAM - Ka \ mae Clamic and jor Chit CONT Pansy D, termosnan