The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1916, Page 18

ae eee | Seater a a —— ABUL'T Plays and _ Players |_By BIDE DUDLEY Production, @ noted German writer, & run of 500 performances In Ber-| lin, Several years ago it was done| in German at the Irving Place The- atre here, Mr. Kugel bas had it) translated and will have au Ameri- can dramatist work on it before the ed, Incidentally, Mr. | Kugel hes sold the Scandinavian rights to his first success, “Old Lady | 81,” to a circuit represented by J. J.! Mendberg and the play will be seen tn Norway, Sweden and Denmark mext year. t _ GROVE TO OPEN DEC, 90. ‘The Cocoanut Grove, the after-the- tre place now being installed atop e Century Theatre, will be formally on Saturday night, Dec, Sv. midnight entertainment to be presented there will be called “Dance and Grow Thin,” CAST FOR “HAVE A HEART.” Henry W. Savage has completed the ast for his annual musical produo- ‘tion, “Have a Heart.” Am those who will have principal roles are Grace Field, Bilecn Van Bione, Fla- Via Acaro, Tessa Kosta, Thurston Hall, Billy B. Van, Donald MacDon- ald, James Bradbury, Roy Gordon and Eugene Keith. There will be a chorus of forty, Guy Bolton and P, G, Wode- oure ure responsible for the book 4nd lyrics, and Jerome Kern bas writ- teu the music, JOHN MAY BE GUILTY. Nobody knows who wrote "Gammer Gurton's Needle,” which is in the Portmanteau Theatre's opening bill at the Princess Theatre to-day, It ia wenerally attributed to John Stull, who ‘was born in 1676 and who eventually became the Bishop of Bath and Wella, ‘There is no way to confirm this sup- position, however, so we're just going to refuse to worry about it, WE MAY SAVE HIM. The writer of this department once concocted a rhyme about an old man who was forced to accept employment as a messenger boy after having lost a fortune speculating in stocks. It was indeed @ heart-rending tale. Now, eiong comes A. B. Dorer, who has an olfice in the Metropolitan Life Bulld- ing, Wica & request for # copy of the rhyme. Hw wants to send it to a friend who is being roughed around in Wall Street, in the hope that be Will seo the lesson and stop tamper: ing with the ticker, We shall be very proud if the rhyme has this effect on ine Way ward one—providing it doesn't arive Lim to drink, BY WAY OF DIVERSION, I've just had eome coffee, I'm bap- py to state, and now I am feeling like wriuog. i Ox up @ rhyme which you'll never call great, artistic nor even exciting, and yet I am sure it wil be worth your while. My brain has been set all a-tingle. "Twill be a true bit of my “rollicking style,” so don’t overlook this fine jingie. Let's wee! Well, I'll start with a line about ple. When I was a boy I adored it, and even to-day, when long years have gone by, 1 never could say I've @bhorred it, There's pumpkin and @pple and custard and prune, as well asa whole lot of others, (This rhyme fe deserving, I think, of a tune). And now I must write about mother’s. Her Le were all dandy. (Gee whiz! t'a not new. I feel I must write Something gripping.) I loved mother’s COMEDY from the German, entitled “Moral,” is on Lee ples—dear old mother eo true, ( @olly! I’m certainly slipping.) Well THE SAFE WAY. | anyway, pies that eo Legend baw ee HO is your favorite com- ewiped or . od (My land! Get that peau SCuSE ME FRIEND TD drink tea in the future) qaossip. Anna Held will recite her “Peace BS. at Wednesday's matinee of ‘ollow Me.” Helen Daweon has been engaged for t in the musical comedy, "Girls q Be Girls.” Four gee will be given at the are’ Firet Winter Frolic at the ynastery next Sunday evening. Bror Meyer, Emmy Bergfeldt and Ulrich Balchow will give special ex- Ribitions of ice skating Tuesdays and Fridays at 3 P. M. at St Nicholas Rink. ‘The benefit for the Carmelite Fath- era and Sisters of Mercy, planned for the Lyceum Monday afternoon, Dec, 18, has been postponed, The new date ‘will be announced soon, board recently, came across a Graph that he considered most laugh- able. As all well organized comedi- cut it out and mailed {i wu Evening World Daily Magazine Evidently It ‘ All Comes Out in the Wash i” J Hint TLL HAve To STICche You IN RETURN | {NOW? AT MAWES You Wweere. POP?” i 3 Featuring ’ Fi LOOEY any AXEL ‘A DETECTIVE -------AXEL, | *HIS. PAL --~------>-FLOOEY: ” F-F [awit b ! WYNN FOUND IT, E4 Wynn, while perusing the Biil- “S'HELP: ME “Doe, HANNA” VE IT AINT TES MY LUCK-WHEN “XI WANNA “TELEPHONE SOME BIRD (6 HOLDIN' ans do in such cases, he immediately | DAWGON(Y HES BEEN IN “THERE NoW OVER A HALE HouR —"TH' FATHEAD, MuST BE CALLING UP, to thi y female im: nator, who was in the Coop & mnt show this season, is back at his old trade, that of plumb- | ing, 1» his home town, Dixon, II ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES, | R. Vandegrift—Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Hannon—See Moyer Cohen, care) Harry Von Tilzer Music Company. | PROBABLY VERY BLOOWALLA. | Wonder how Tony Parcamo would look in a pinchback overcoat!—"Ram- bler," in Greenpoint Home News. — | FOOLISHMENT, Binee Johneon was kicked by the roan, ‘He let all wild horses alone, And street care he's quit; ‘Teo reason for it Je be has @ borse ear of his own, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Love makes the world go round “True, but money greases the axis, os FMedium * AND LONG, DSvrence CALLO. [a LL ETT “Wagner,” replied Mr. BUT IM IN A HURRY ‘Nouve HAD “THAT ‘ou must be a student of music!” I mention Wagner for the . of relieving myself of conver- "PHONE AY LEAST A strain. If the other man HWALE HouR AN t ike Wa.aer he won't want ar me say another word.” “and if he does?” “He'll want to do all the talking himself."—Washington Star, Se HAVE GOTTEN A J BUCKET, MAYBE. BNATOR WILLIAM E. MASON of S Miinols proved himself o success- a ful fisherman. His favorite a round was off a ledge on the Maine where he captured perch and ff 1 ish, One day he sat vatiently ; : iting for a bite Suddenly he folt something on his hook, and pulling it to \ NY SAD A eu » WNORD AN’ SVOA ANCE ) WOULD iw FACE! J » eS i "Kl | MMT Charles Dillingham has appointed a representative to act for the Hippo- drome on the Entertainment Commit. tee of the B y Association, A ball will held in conjunction in by Hote is reported Ott © the Rocky Moun srs. Shubert gave thelr an- Hospital Pheatre a bed in this institu. 1 f the » Sam 8 i ad ge und | There Is No Better Face Powder At Any Price wap more wet & by On betler than any other.—Advt | th with @ vigorous band, was reward. — ed by @ poor little tin can covered , BY with rust and seaweed, As he took it — from the hook he said: "Humph. I could have done far better in the Ch, oe Christian Register — STRAIGHT TO HEADQUARTERS. NE evening an angry complain. | O ant appeared in Cupples’s barn. “Your bull chased me across that fleld this morning.” “bid he? Well, I'm sorry. Hurt ye j much?" “See here, ['ve come to tell you that you ought to take that bull out of the feild.” “It's my fleld; likewise my bull.” “I guess you don't know who I |am?" “Well, no, I dunno's I do.” | “lam the Mayor of Scarboro, and President of ville Railroad,” “Be ye?” asked Jim, respectfully. | ow why didn't yet tell thac to the/ bull?”"—Youth's Companton, j pesenltneciin®eehs tet PREMATURE, RTHUR ALBRO, the Russian tenor, dropped into a drug store near his home tn Harlem and asked the clerk If he had some castor oll that would not taste, | The clerk replied that he had, and \asked the comedian If he Itked saraa- | pariila. | “L do,” replied Albro, “and rarely indulge In anything stronger.” The clerk gave Albro a glass of sarsaparilla, which he drank with relish, Finally Albro asked the clerk for the castor oll. | "L gave it to you with the parila," responded the clerk. | "Great heavens!" shrieked Albro; “{ wanted it for my mother."—-Phil- adelphia Telegrap! a a WHEN SATAN GOT BEHIND HE: RS, KILGORE was the pretty young wife of the elderly vil-| One day she went | lage pastor. into the clty with a friend and among other things bought a new frock. “An- other frock, my dear?” said her hus- band, “Did you need another?” “You,” said the wife, hesitatingly, "I do need it, and, besides, it was #0 pretty that the devil tempted mo.” “But you should have sald, ‘Get thee behind me, Satan,’ Have you forgot- en that?” “Oh, no; but that was what made the trouble, dear, I said, ‘Get thee be- By Clifton Meek e Scarboro and Tait- | hind me, Satan,’ and he did, but be whispered over my shoulder, ‘It just fits beautiful in the back!’ And T just a to take it then.”—Harper's Maga- ne. 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