The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1917, Page 16

annem a ceeieeeteineneeeenneareemeees ee . ——— Evening World Daily Magazine POP?” Better That the Candy Should Go to Waist Than to Waste! “"S’MATTER, Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY Hen 3 Teint” “Por 3 Teint I'd BETTER BAT Td SAve THis’ CANDY )TieL Ne xT( CHRISTMAS i SOAR HAMMBRSTEIN, it : seems, isn't the only one of the Hammerstein clan who loves am argument. Arthur, son of his father, has started @ vigorous attack on the New York cafes which offer shows with feod. He has written Commissioner of Ldcenses Bell and Fire Commissioner Adamson suggest- ing that it is unfair to theatre owners to permit restaurant proprietors to give these shows unless their cafes are governed by the same ordinances that relate to the playhouses. Mr. Hammerstein says be has observed that while no admission is apparentiy ebarged to these cafe entertainments, there is usually @ “cover” charge, whieh, in his opinion, amounts to peer pote valerate: HENRY HASENPFEFFER If You Want to Be Always Remembered, Just Borrow Money and Never Pay It Back! OFFICE FORCE WOULD ACT, From the Punch and Judy Theatre comes the announcement that the recent performance of “Treasure island” by the stage crew has made the office force Jealous and that said By Bud Counihan CoPPTG NT, Fiays Publishing Ga ly Fe DANGeNE weit You Bor ROWED Soe KNEW HE WoULDNT— $IO. FRom HIM AN’ NEVER AN’ Does He OFTEN “THAT Dav} : silly oral ah poren x bd Bis] “ Sean nl ‘wedi vel gaat FosTBALL STAR OF “TH DAY ff AWE THAT WUZ A effice force is preparing to take 4 “ToD You BoUT “TH’ Dey HE SREY DAN-K KNew whack at the play. George Vivian AN XK HELPED “To WIN eayiene Never FORGET Break of «v7 will be Billy Bones because he ts OUR BiG GAME MGIN Ne vt a ON very thin and displays numerous bones, John Wilstach will be Long John Silver if he can disguise several gold front teeth he has. Miss Legh- man, secretary to Charles Hopkins, wit play Jim Hawkins, and Miss Bloom, the stenographer, will nat- urally be the flower girl. We'll bet the show never comes off, BY WAY OF DIVERSION. ‘The light man makes « call on me each month to read the meter. He «izes up my chandeliers and my oloc- trie heater, He says I've used #0 many watts, or probably it’s kenos. 1 don't know what a keno is, but you can wager he knows. He'll take the meter’s number down and to the total add it, and then the number of the house he'll sandwich in to pad it. ‘Within a week I'll get_a bill that’s typed and very nifty. It says I owe two sixty plus eighteen and seven fifty. I go downtown to pay my bill. ‘The clerk eays: “Very good, sir! It comes to nine plus seventeen. The discount’s understood, air.” I hand the man my meagre roll and say: “Just take a-plenty.” And then I cuss a first class word, and some- times ten or twenty. STUDENTS IN A PLAY. ‘The senior class of the High School of Commerce, at No. 155 West Bixty- fifth Street, will present on the e ning. of Jan. 30 @ version of Anat France's play, “The Man Who Mar- ried a Dumb Wife.” Edgar Bauman {eo stage manager and M. A. Beer ts coaching the players. MISS M’CANE SIGNS, A. H. Woods is announcing that Mabel McCane, well known in vaude- ville, bas been engaged by him to appear in “The Girl From Ciro’s,” an operetta by Pierre Veber and Mau- rice Soulle, with music by Joseph Bzule. The piece is now in its ninth month at the Garrick Theatre, Lon- don, Preparations for the New York roduction will be started shortly. * SARVARD" ANT He 7 € 7 B..----] FLOOEY AND AXEL AXEL ~* + ” uny i} LOOEY Ann. AXEL | ‘LOOK How NE "RUN AVAY fi” ‘ir, Woods, by the way, is trying to obtain from the Messrs. Shubert the / English rights to “Her Soldier Boy” and “Follow Me.” He'd like to take Anna Held and her entire “Follow Me" company to London if he could. | FILMS FOR MISS ARTHUR, It looks as though “Seremonda,” in which Julla Arthur is starring at the tho toeae af leriag Bias Atthar late ; THERE WERE ONLY [iil Hl as ‘besa presented in Boston and a KNEW, WHO WOULD | {\! i PLAY A TRICK . / z e IT WAS EITHER LIKE THAT ¢ *RED” Chay aes Good Stories | UNKIND, ‘ TEACHER tn one of the city / ' schools, who, to say the least, 4s of rather generous proper- tons, was trying to explaia to her scholars the correct Measurements of the human frame, “Kor example," she sai, “dwiee’ @round my thumb, once around my wrist; twice around my Wrisl ence fround my neck; twice around my few other cities, she will act in it before the motion picture camera, Miss Arthur has heretofore stead- fastly declined film offers, but she feels she would like to have future| generations see her in “Seremonda," | and the movies make that possible, Ss — neck, once around ” f GILL PULLS A RHYME. TWAT PUT THAT ie ena cee Hip Pipes : om Gi sharspion fat pool player SALT ON MY the back of the room exclaimed ' je Friars, is losopher an . “Twice ar ef SLIOIN’ POND - aurice around your waist, opee | the Cit frame at Hau, Tousen poet. Tom bought a newspaper last night and hed an argument with the newsboy over the change for a dime! iven him. When he had cooled off ve went to the club and wrote the following rhyme: town Telogra: pre! GOT IN, | ERCIAL travel A me this story, A friend of ate ; had waited long to see Pregt- a 8 a mh ‘ le the ‘e eu, You'd ee "re othue’ fellow fain cries of the big Felt Proves You Till the storm had passed” away, Then be would do some. winking Of the things you ‘didn't say. Gossip. | Margot Ottesen, a Norwegian beau- ty, has joined "The Midnight Frolic.” Nellie Fillmore has been engaged | for a character role in “A Nigger in the Woodpile.” The first act of Fred Cc. Whitney's | new Strauss operetta, “Boys Will Be mers.” is finished, | he annual Actors’ Pun to be beld Friday afternoss, Sane ay! at the Century, will offer a pro: Peals of laughter came trom the president's room | stepped out. se the sccretasy | “Mr. Green {s too busy to ace you at N | ; | present,” sald the secretary 4 | “I'm sorry,” said the man who erties A”n as jon business. “Will you and | tell Mr. Green that I've tol two moe | Just as good as the one he's h he'll let i + 2 Be iat me in to tell thean ?—dpostert __ TOO MUCH FOR NORSPRVED ana Ail the president of @ church e9- 4s ] gramme of unusual excellence. The Hippodrome patrons are voting | on the question of which dances Pav. | Jowa shall present during the last half | of her final week at that theatre. Willard Bradley has quit the movies YOU OUGHT TD Give US MUSIC WITH OUR MEALS, Gus! | ciety entered the room of @ newspaper hear these words, lame hee se mouth of the boss printer: bi |, “Billy, go to the devil and tell — ea RE Ee a PD to Se eee rere rene eeeemeneemeesineenttee neil to finish that ‘murder’ he by morning, — Then ‘kt’ Wil! iam J, a) > ‘ and 1s to produce a sketch called | Bryan's Youngest Grandchild, and > ‘ 4 i ad 4 Hearse,” In the cast will be) werly Bruce, Richard Jaffre; Neewab Haykawa, id : | with a vigorous young mae i¢ oh dump the ‘Sweet Angel of Mercy’ tm, ‘ ‘ | A THOUGHT FOR TO-pay, to the hell-box, Make Ike Sproggins, the town drunkard of ‘Naughty Parisian Actress‘ ny PY ‘ Wheeple Junction, Kan, put his foot | KR et AS Her Boudoir.’ out o! ed the oth | i food = wo) ' is other ‘night apd a Philadelphia Public Ledger = "4 — pe el FOOLISHMENT. GET IT? My cetera, i6, fortaaste— HE pretty New England maiden wits Teather "up both, oe | had been tangoing etrenuoualy from the West. “Really,” she protested, “1 . stop. I'd like to t.ce) nd ont ae Tm danced out.” Pom and on, bat “Why, how can you cried 1n' astonishment ag he uabortoe her to a seat. “I don't think 733. are * FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, voy are you bopping around like tha’ “My doctor told me to take my peeticine tree Sats, running and akip a night, fe my night ny iD te GUS WOULD HAVE Lost A LOT OF PATRONAGE FOR NOT SUPPLYING AN ORCHESTRA AT LUNCH TIME HE HADN'T THOUGHT OF A SCHEME To UTILIZE HITHERTo gies iO WASTED ae darned stout atall, You' enough."—Nationel aontnty. aa. secs a ne me