The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1917, Page 18

s a am SE, a a oe ‘Coicenre eres] “Brening World Daily Magazine ABOUT Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ULU GLASER, of musical com- edy fame, is to do some more acting and singing. She has obtained a one-act farce, with music, and will prevent it in vaudeville soon. Raymond Peck has written the book, Louis Woslyn the lyrics and Muriel Pollack the music. The playlet ts called “Margary.” Tom Richards and @ company of half a dozen will assist Miss Glaser. PLAYS FOR THE GARDEN. ‘The East-West Players will inau- gurato a series of week-end perform. ances at the Garden Theatre next week. Plays will be given on Thure- day, Friday and Saturday evenings. ‘The repertoire consists of “The Stran- ” bv*Perez Hirschbein; “Paul and virginia,” by James Rorty; “The Awakening of Narradin,” by Gustav Blum and Elias Lieberman, aod “Night,” by Sholom Asch. NELLIE SAYS IT’S TRUE Bem Bernard is a “bug” on pin- ochie. At the French war benefit at the Century Tuesday night Elsie fanis was auctioning a book in be- aif of the fund when somebody @aked Sam if he'd sit in a game later that night. Ho said he would and lbp pinocble when Miss Janis “Will anybody ratee it? “I bid a hundred and Pebegttd uted Sam. And he had to pay $: real money for the book. Nellie Revell says Sam actually thought he was bidding in a pinochle game and—well, nobody would sue ect Nellie of fuberbustillism. PERCY SAYS IT’S TRUE. And, speaking of stories that might Be true. Percy Heath solemnly an- mounces that seventy-two office boys who work in the vicinity of Bixty- @econd Street and Central Park West dost their jobs yesterday because they overstayed their lunch time to Watch several “Cocoanut Grove” girls fide to the top of the Century The- atre on some palm trees workmen ‘Were hoisting. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Z met Bill Jones one day last week. He took me off one side. Said he: “T've struck a dandy streak of luck. ‘The Street’ I tried. I bo t five hundred P. & K. and proved that I ‘wes wise. It started upward right @way. ‘Twill have another rise. Next ‘week I think I'll quit my job and live on what I've won. I'll have a big fat Pankroll then—a healthy ota | one 0 buy an auto—maybe two. I'll buy @ country place. I'd try the scheme if I were you and run ‘the Street’ a race.” I met Bill Jones again to- day. He took mo off one side Baid he: “My rent I've got to pay. My landlord's such @ snide! He says if I don't raise the dough he'll put me out to-night. Say, let me have a ten or ol Come on, now—treat me right!” “TREASURE ISLAND” STAYS. Charles Hopkins has decided to ex- tend the run of “Treasure Island” at the Punch and Judy Theatre two weeks. The play was to have gone on tour next week. A reduced scale of ices will be in effect at the per- lormances Tuesday, Wednesday and Thureday afternoons and Saturday mornings, as well as at those given the first four evenings of each week. Mr, Hopkins desires to remove any ression that the Punch and Judy “exclusive” or “highbrow.” He @ays the prices heretofore charged have been necessary to meet ex- penses. ALFRED WELL REWARDED! “Never before, according to my ex- c6,"" says Alfred Hickman, “has ecenario writer been @o well re- warded as here of late.” Mr. Hickman ought to know where- @f he speaks. He wrote several acen- @tics for Nance O'Nefl and ehe mar- Ged him. Gossip. Jane Cowl tn “Lilac Time” will open Saturday night In Morristown, N, J. Bill Brill and whiskers have gone over to the movies. They'll be ahead of @n “Intolerance” film. Will Deming has returned to Broad- way from a visit to his coal mines at Jackson, 0. Pictures of Ruth Chatterton wil be ven away as souvenirs at the one \dredth performance of “Come Out of the Kitchen,” Monday night. Dave Bennett 1s going to London te produce “Very Good Eddie” for Fit Butt. He's now staging “Ob Nora Bayes is still hunting for a theatre where she can give her song show evenings. Another stil] hunt, es it were! A plan ts on foot to make a film of the “Major Pendennis" tory, Jane Houston wil! act in it D. F. sends in a amall plece of tin-| fol to be given to a youth who is collecting that material for war pur- poses. Notice his initials again Harold | announces he has ob- tained m, man wag pictures for the Strand Owere ~ BANQUET LAST NIGHT wun P “S'MATTER, POP?” GREAT +EAVENS , MAN, DONT DumP THAT COAL! My TATSY! My BARBY! 6AM +L on-H. BY DOIN’ A COAL Hore? t IFT Do GAY ty MESELF *\WKe"—tT Wuz “TH CLAssIEST AFFAIR PULLED OFF IN THIS HERE NECK O' Woods IN Neare You TH’ ieepeti gy. Hers WITH Betts! td xc w Yi CouLDA SEEN Tu Buren Bernice vor-ed! LATTE. IHN. Prem Pratidiing Co. Oh. TIES Werte bell to the world and fs eternally pointing. with pride, wants “Hip, Hip, looray!" for one night, but the “opry” is hardly big enough to eeat even the advance crew. Thomas A. Wise, Constance Collier and Isabel Irving will give the basket from “Tue Merry Wives of Windsor” before the Theatre Assem- Dly at the Hotel Aetor Friday after- noon, Jan. 19. The Messrs. Shubert are trying to Provide another ‘theatre for “The er,” now at Maxine Elli Gertrude Kingston has the booked. It is probable that “Th Lodger” will be seen at “off day" | matinees somewhere until a theatre can be given it. MRS. FISKE NAMES A PLAY, Mra. Wieke named the new Harris Dickson play of the South which Corey & Riter will produce. She thought it should be called “Down South,” and the title was immediately chosen. SPOOFING JEFF, Somebody gave Jeff Hobbs, our negro Janitor, a ticket to the free open-air medicine show last night. | Jeff was so pleased he bought a bot- He of the cure for a dollar,—Cart. | wright (Kan.) Whistle. FOOLISHMENT, ‘The boot end oh They'll have « Tt wight be called A footbat—am 1 right! FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, will be shown soon, Urbana, I), which gave Ray Hub TALBOT 234 in ‘o \\ under collar, CLUETT, PEABOGY & CO., INC. MAKERS, TROY, “x Arrow Jf Collars Do not press against the neck or shoulders—do not chafe the shirt—waistcoat cannot rise up “The lilac is the prettiest Dh there ts." . plant "Oh, how can you Ilac that?" Have bands and tops curve cut to fit the anatomy of the shoulders, 2 for 30 cents ON THE FIVE-FIFTEEN”’ The Next Picture, if Drawn, Would Probably Show POP “Down Tha Coal Hole! " Bs NOT IN THE AL Hore: 465 ASLFEP AT Home. ‘Mm APRAID YOU MIGHT WAKE tim! \ ) = Nezzal WHY DAWGONIY *\«ke” “THe HAD “TH WWELLEST * ERVICE” SC EVER SILVER Cooyright, 1917, by John N, Wheeler, Ino, By Gale { oon, Mu WTR We ~ By Jack Calla h Mr. Flefifteen Might Have Gotten Away With It on a Hand Car! Nes Cook pur every ie CITTLE THING I= HOT ROLLS, EGGS, CorFFEE — = Now FOR A NICE ,WELL= MASTICATED BREAKFAST! IT 1S STRANGE THAT Iam THe FIRST COMMUTER WHO EVER THOUGHT OF CARRVING HIS BREAKFAST I) A LUNCH Bow PND EATING IT ON THE TRAIN! Now I CAN Lay in BED 34/2 MINUTES MORE-AND TI HAVE A WHOLE HOUR ON THE “TRAIN TO EAT IA OL’ JOHN ALOYSIUS WAS AS FOND OF BULL DOG 1S OF HIS REFLECTION - ? 7 a ( 1 nappa Leave ’ WriTtHoOuT A Brre tL OF BREAKFAST, Four THIS MORNING » Movurnwe pS WELL, IT. was A Goop IDEA ANYWAY J! HE ONLY WISHED HE WAS A JUDGE TO ALL KINDS OF SENTENCES — WAS BEFORE JOHN ALOYSIUS FELL HEIR TO THAT LIGHTNING 6" HE HATED ‘EM, FEARED’EM, ATE AUTOS AND “MOBILISTS* AS A FEROCIOUS] TALKED ‘EM, EVEN HAD NIGUT OR*NIGHT MOTORS* OF THEM- HE ALMOST WENT INTO HYSTERICS ON SO THAT WE COULD SENTENCE SPEEDERS| HEARING OF AN ENTIRE AUTOMOBILE han] MANUFACTURING PLANT BEING WIPED OUT- hee WAY, YOU PooR. HICKS ! Na 5