The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1917, Page 16

. COMIC PAGE “S°MATTER, POP?” ~ ABOUT — Plays and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY | N organization, incorporated under the name of the Town Theatre, has been formed to enter the producing field. Among its sponsors are some very well known | players, Mentioned in the list are Lillian Albertson, Josephine Victor and Edward Ejlis, Others interested are Mrs. Frederick Love Keays of! Great Neck; Mary Holland Kinkatd and Edith Ellis. Miss Ellis Is to be! the artistic director. A theatre te to | be leased. Two houses are now un- der consideration. Full length, new | American plays will be produced. The | first one, if all goes well, will be! eeen about Feb. 1. Incidentally, the) name of the organization may be obanged. WOODS TO MANAGE NORA. When Nora Bayes, with her “Two Hours of Song,” gets through play- fag Sunday nights and “off’ mat~- inees at the Eltinge Theatre, she | will make a tour of the larger cities | @nder the management of HH. ‘Woods. At present sho ts he Manager, hod durn it! Miss did not give her entertainmen' terday afternoon because of a cold. @he'll be on tho job again Sunday! evening. MISS ANGLIN WITH TYLER. Margaret Anglin, recently under the Frohman direction, has entered into Qn arrangement whereby George C. ‘Tyler wi!| be her manager. Sho is to omer in a new by Rupert Hughes entitied “The Lioness,” based on Ger- trude Atherton’s novel, “The Perch of the Devil.” The play will first be wean at Atlantic City on Feb. 1. Miss Anglin’s role will be unlike anything ae ever before attempted. it will eall for a primitive, uneducated woman almost of the “cave” type. PRESIDENT LIKES RHYMES. When the Chicago “Turn to the} Right” company opened in Washing- tam the other night President and | Mrs. Wilson occupied a box. After the firct act the Prowident Invited Febn L. Golden, one of the play's pro- @ucers, into the box. Mr. Golden ac- cepted, and during the other inter- missions much mild hilarity was no- toed in the President's y. The wudionce wondered what up. A man who sat near the box has in- formed us that the President and Mr, Golden were exch iging limerioks, Mr. Wilson being sory fond of little verses of that kind. “1 wish,” eaid the man, “that I could give the President a limeriok | have in my collection, Want to hear VY od ‘We sald we would just love to, and the man recited the following rhyme: Mise Pitts “He' Expertorate,' ‘Tao trutt) wes, the dog wes 0 Ooi, BY WAY OF DIVERS! (Toapleed ty « BEd Typewtiting Machine.) I've got to write a little rhyme. I'll call it "To a Daisy.” In any land; in any clime! (This typewriter’s gone crazy). In any clime. no matter where, | "twould be the utmost folly to aay the) daisy were not fair. (The ribbon's| jumped ita trolley.) Let's see! Oh, yea; —the daisy’s fair. In fact, it shames, the lily. It sheds its fragrance on the) air, (This spacer's gains silly.) It shede) its fragrance all the time and thus it scents the breezes. (This old machine's | not worth a dime. It writes just as jt | rene ‘The daisy is @ pretty thing. | Jove to see it growing. (I'm getting mighty mad, by jing! The little “E’s" | quit going.) So let us sing the dalsy’s . It's auch a dandy flower. | busted both the| feeling sour!) | ‘Beunced. L, Wolfe Gilbert Is to sing his way over the Marcus Loow cirouit of the- Mi €' Ned Munroe and Charles McNaugh- ton have been added to the cast of “The Beautiful Unknown. The Stage Chikiren’s Fund will steot oMfcers at the Hotel Astor on | fan. %. ‘Gwendolyn Plors han deen engaged | for « good role in “The Love Mill,” which Andreas Dippel is to produce. | Jeok Merritt, who usually plays moon ‘s by looking over the fence, | has it real lines in “Oh Boy!” Watch that youth! | Rita Boland, a recruit from vaude- | ville, has joined the “Dance and Grow ‘Thin" company, to be at the Cocoa- aut Grove. ‘A ceport that ice skating was to be ||) { abandoned at the Hippodrome is | erroneous. Charles Dillingham has renewed the contracts of all his Im- | ported skaters, | Arthur Row, who was putting jeces in the papers about Sarah rohardt, has changed his entire mode of living, and is now acting the juvenile role in edro, the Italian,” whatever that be, DUNN DID IT. Lila Rhodes, who 1s to change her e to lila Rhodes-Costigan, Dunn to fix up ap an. rd for her to send her what Eddle did nounces: NOT FOR NAT ROTH. Nat Roth ar ubert went to @ Broadway h ner recently, “Plat du Jou he walter of Mr, Roth “Naw!” roared Nat Roth. “Fetch me the daily dish ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. Bhelley—-Misy Munson has appeared in several picture O'Keet You'll have to ask some: body else about “Hot Dogs.” That's ope show we've missed FOOLISHMENT. nan in Savanah t Niet bie tandaonab, { f Tear be wees FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, ior tures months I ¢idn't speak to wife.” + Mhwny not?” | mM | Baidn't want to rupt her,” acres, beginning at thé American [? jonday. ' Evening World Daily Magazine ———— Yes “Pater “IF X Do SAY ) Iv MESeLe orm TH IN SEVEN COUNTIES es < Davsine] HENRY HASENPFEFFER Lite “TH BUSTIN’ UP OF A HARD WINTER | SPEAK OUT gon Y FRIENDS - WoTS: TH “TRouBLe ¥. 4 AXEL— ; “GEE, IT BANE No USE. ME” “TRYIN’ To KEEP OFF DAS SMoKes! AY MIGHT AS VELL PAY FLOOEY DAS #10 NOW AN’ ENJOY LIFE — HE VILL NEVER SMOKE AGAIN BECANSE HE GOT MORE OF | _ DAS WILL-POWER® "THAN ME. AN HIG $10 BANE SAFES" SNELL SCE ee * ‘4 ANCEE-WELL SHE “TOTED DANGoniT-\ "Look ee NG AGE MENT RING” J PACK “To “TH “DOOLERS” “6 BE VALUED ! 0H! PooR Woe | Saturday, January 6, Evidently Mama Didn't Mean What She Said! Conran. 101 Prose Puonamnag Co OY. Brass Wer), And To-Night He’s a Bachelor, in a Cottage by thé Sea! WHY “TH Gas ALWAYS Do THAT, STUPID # any 7" v eH hon Hathar! Are Notun’ Ya FR Ss wD °. l, Nes Se FooR ie aD SJooLER" ReFUseD ae a | “a! Zz TM SCaETTTaT TAT “Wrens Pothier Hooray! All Bets Are Declared Off! FLOOEY — : iTS NOUSE ME “TRYIN © 7] CATCH AXEL SMOKING AN COLLECT: THAT #10. I MIGHT AS WELL GIVE UP “ay BEFORE HE GETS SORE “NAN' KNOCKS MY BLOCK OFF.” f H-HE-He “Tore ) Se gall HER XK HADNT PAID for 1v By C. M. Payne i By Bud Counihan Ast Gor sun A nice \ 9 4 KIND FACELA aeligeiaee MR, FIEFIFTEEN IS EVIDENTLY A CREATURE OF HABIT, WHY! WHAT 15 THE, MATTER WITH YouR HUSBAND, MRS. FieFiFTeEN FERDINAND AND J Have To HELP HIM OUT A LiTT Too , Bur_I Can't say THAT LENJoy My PART — AS MUCH AS FERDIE (DOES HIS ! STRAP THAT THIS 1$ THE ONLY WAY HE CAN REA AT HOME IN) THE jy Now ! WPTCH YOuR Ster THERE'S NOTHING THE MATTER eta ie WE HAS JUST oT Oo USED ry HiS PAPER RANGING one ry LETTEM OFF! NO MATTER WHO MADE THAT NOISE WHEN TEACHER'S BACK WAS TURNED - THEY'D ALL LOOK AT "POPULAR" LIL ALGERNON ! FIRST ROW CENTRE OUGHT TO PLEASE THE WIFE! THOSE SEATS LUKE BOUGHT FOR THE THEATRE WOULD HAVE PLEASED HIS BETTER, HAL meen THE ORCHESTRA LEADER al ONLY BEEN A DWARF !¢ | WHEN YOU WERE A BOY .xviitsliaa, By Jack Callahan ||’ Good Stories Jf ' | workman emptying a sewer, “That! | remarked the youngster, interestedly, PASS ON. HEN a small boy was his father’s dinner he for a moment to watch “ia the grating my brother lost @ / shilling down.” The workman's eyes lit up. “Well, young man,” he sata, | with a show of carelessness, “you'é | better get forward with that dinne:, | before it's cold.” In about hale am’ jhour the boy returned to find ths | man still at the same grating. “Are ¢ |you quite sure it was erat \the shilling was lost in | workman. ! THAT SETTLED IT. | TN a business men’s club in a Westemm | town there sprang up two factionm | one which criticised the steward be cause he did not provide the members, | with good meals and one which de fended him hotly. Then, without warning, the stewart himeelf decided the question One day at lunch time & member of the club asked a waiter: “Where's the steward?” “He ain't here,” replied the waiter? § “He said he was going down the street to get something good to eat.”"—The Popular Magazine. THAT WOULD ADD INSULT, RS. MELLEN did not wish to offend her new cook “John,” she said to the man servant, “can you find out wither asking the cook whether the tinn salmon was all eaten last night? You see, I don’t wish to ask her, because she may have eaten it, and then she would feel uncomfortable,” added the good soul “If you please, ma'am,” replied the man, “the new cook has eaten the tinned salmon, and if you was to say anything to h couldn't make her feel any m: nfortable than she is."~-Christian ister, ) ieee A CHILLY SPOT, “ce OU'LL have to change my place on the bill,” declared the lady acrobat, “I find the audience too Ae “How will a shift help that amy’ demanded the vaudeville 1 we i ata ee oe ga low who is lecturing ut the tic.”—Kansas City Journal, y