The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1917, Page 20

; : 4 | i — ene re Sore Stee Deen ee themt eater terse ee sinenactttiain na a mews awe eeers nemnanianeeneanmae ne GAziNe Pop Is Having a Hard Time as a Conversation Reformer ‘o | ''S’MATTER, POP?” By C. M. Payne * R » ] e ~ adh About Plavs ( —— faepal ieee: aa | ees — LES Ee | ‘ é ayers CALL R BROTHERS & P f | an vt hak “a TE A REAR | 5 m | Bis conrinve/ Vidh tale el oo By BIDE DUDLEY You ? (Te {cur 17 ov a SHouLdD Discontinue 1 a | te ; os as | Qe are RC KLAW of Kiaw & Er- langer, President of the United Protective Managers’ Associa- - Ve <@)) ny tion, has issued a statement in which : he decries the attempt to tax theatre 4 thekets through legislation. He calle a. the move “an outrage from beginning peti DY s\\, ; a fo end,” and says there is no more reason to tax a theatre than a depart~ ment store or a saloon, And then Mr, Klaw cxpresses himself concerning Sunday night performances. “And while on the subject of legis- lation,” he says, “I don't know by what line of reasoning one class of theatres can be kept open on ng ft and another class closed. In Other words, why one piece of real eetate should be valuable on 365 days in the year and the other on only 313, @ discrimination in value of 16 2-3 per cent. Personally Klaw & br- Janger have never advocated Sunday night. performances in their theatros, | but if there ic to be affirmative legis- | Jation in favor of some to the disud- Vantage of others, I think the man- | rs of ‘the others’ should rise inj protest.” HOPKINS SELECTS A PLAY. | Charlies Hopkins announces that he) Will open the 1917-1918 season at the, Punch & Judy Theatre, early next) fall, with @ p! by Meade Minni-| gerode, who r ly resigned a cler- ieal position in office of a steam- ship company to devote his time to Writing. This ie his firat dramatic! ‘Attempt. A preliminary presentation | ef the play will likely be made late in the spring as a sort of @ try-out. | Mr. Minnigerode's firet story, “Some | Men and a Lady, 8 recently print- | ed in the Saturday Evening Post, ‘The play has not been named nor has it@ theme been divulged. AND FATHER KEPT BTILL. Litue Jake Shubert, the seven-year- eld son of J. J, Shubert, was motoring with bis father recently and spoke of @ friend who was sick. “You should never say ‘sick,’ said Mr. Shubert. “Uee ‘ill.’ i Little Jake was quiet a moment. ‘Then ho said: “Huh! I guess if 1 was! on a steamship and be CORT AEN 1917, Proms Wubitaming Ua US Hen (Sour FATHER > aig Hon P 5 HENRY HASENPFEFFER Y'6e¥ You SAW ME TALKIN’ “TO A ELDERLY GENTLEMAN YESTIDDY pte i By Bud Counihan \ Ne6 “Ike RIGHT IN FRONT, oF Y oFrice ! He WorE A Derey Way AN’ A Mouse CARED QVER-CORTY XT OWE A Geerr ? DEAL TO THAT OLE BOY~Yezzal ) ace aaaas yeni P Copyriant, 1911, Breve Pubiiehing Ca iN. ¥ yening World) AXEL BY WAY OF DIVERSION. pyran 181) Prove Puwliahing Ca gy, ¥, Ryonlng World T b A youth there was 40 ugly that his | face gave folks a pain, He'd call| once on a girl and then he'd never! o@ll again. For after that the girl, would have engugements ev'ry night, The women wouldn't hav ‘round bis face was such a fright. But! FLOORY ~ “VA HAVING YOU Box THs GUY *BUHM' JUST “To GET You IN SHAPE. FOR THE. BIG BATTLE, FEATURING ©” _FLOOEY ano AXEL once the youth decided he would use @ little scheme. Hach time he met A girl he swore ehe was a perfect dream. it brought a change; no longer do the women on him frown, ‘To-day no man's as popular as that meee, sh in tue town, \ THE CHAMPION “TOMORROW NIGHT! “THE LAY YoU KNOCKED HIM OUT ON “THE STREET, YESTERDAY PROVES HE!LL BEL A CINCH WHEN Yor) GET HIM IN THE RING!" tt | HER SALARY TO CHARITY. Rita Jolivet, in private life the Countess Giuseppe de Cippico, has ac- eepted a rule in the Corey & Riter pro- duction, “A Nigger in the Woodpiie,” aad, if Joe Drum, press agent, hasn't Got the wrong dope, all ber salary will 80 to a fund to assist Italians who are ering through the war's ravages ith the kind assistance of the author and the public she hopes to make the Italian officials count « lot of money. | GOSSIP. Pau gues is back on Broadway ra long stay in Himburst, L. i. He basn't changed much. Ansley Whittendale, of the John B. Williams office, is grappling with the grippe. So far neither contestant has won a fall. | ,Medwig Reicher is to give another @eries of dramatic recitals. The first ey Biogy lace at the Comedy F 4 Molly Mcintyre is singing Ttalian song called ‘Hoot, Mon!” “Love o' Mike.” The Moesers. Shubert will soon Sudden Success Has Upset Many a Man Before! i By Jack Callahan|| | EVEN UNCLE EDWARD SMILED, — ———_ [M1 *vectattons trom tnetr stan, > THE LETTER z ; | old Uncle Edward. Bo wae * THAT NEVER f , : he came to them on a few daya’ visit, they prepared to do all they could t VERE A BOY*ii 8 YP itm im rebearsal an operetta called fuse,” by Cosmo Hamilton and Stuart “Hale Hamilton and his wife, Myrtle Tannehill, have returned from Au- straiia, where they spent more than a in to go to London to! y Good Eddie.” She tage in Katinka.” | Walter Wi r addresses Mme. | lasimova as “My dear W. W. A."| gays it means “Wonder Woman of ‘a Betty and Gertrude Hamilton, ais- tere, have been added to the beauty | @oliection of “The Century Girl.” William (Bill) Malley bas gone out | of Taylor Holmes in “His Ma- Jesty Bunker Bean.” One of the shrewdest of the Broad. Way theatre box office men wa “taken in" by a sharper the otber da: who borrowed $5 on @ diamond ring | worth 6 or § cents. | hia curtain speech at the last per- | fermanc of “Plerrot, the Prodigal,” Paul Clerget will thank the audience im pantomime on behalf of all the iA VERY 9900p ARAGON, Meike tose RING the lesson one afternoon Wpyers see = A a violent thunderstorm arose, aries Dana, will give an entertains and to lessen the fright @f they) ment at the Comedy Theatre on the | children the teache: |) aaa of Fe. Bhe'll do a mono- ive nian pe Hanne re bewes. talage of ogue and everything | “And now, Jimmy," she Julia Arthur is giving a Western Ponat lentniGe aera bd actress, Miss M. Malloy, her Broad ee ie plaett eee babies Way chance in du." Miss pcaUse,! Jimm: 2 cause, y, confidently, Malloy arrived in week and “after it hits o (he’ same plage w assumed the rule of Clara ain't there any more.”"—Ladies' Home =—= J 1 A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY 1 DON'T KNOW) journal, aes SFr Case of Curwon, Oki pea STRIKING A BARGAIN. RON OOK here, Hiram," Tuesday he ORDERED 6s » Hiram,” said Bt, banana had been eaten by the Mayor's THAT DISH! “when be you goin’ to pay pretty daughter : me them eight dollars fer pasturin’ your heifer? I've had her +». ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. how about ten weeks.” ‘H. E. H.-No. They are apparently “Well, Si, ther erttter ain't worth 6 Rey happy. e mor'n $10."" H elson-—Write Meyer Cole: “Well, s'postn’ I ke Marry Von Tilzer Music © you owe mer" . ep her. fon Wha { and hel! tell you about thar »: “Not by a jugful! Tell you what Pt rr * do: keep her t eks more an’ you FOOLISHMENT. ean hay rmal Instructor, Tom cat mee _ le tan sue nt as And . ah SUPERFLUOUS HAIR PROM THE CHESTNUT TREC. “Brown has quit running a locomo- Haye to. Into the writing paper bum Reese. “Oh, he's to be @ stationery engi- Beer now, eh?’ be { REACH ED A LETTER TO OUR MA FROM “TEACHER. COMPLAINING OF YOUR. CONDUCT. VIA ALGY, FREQUENTING RESTAURANTS WHERE THE MENU IS FRENCH WOULD BE A NOVELTY — te BE ol HIS HEAD AN’ NLL GRAB THE LETTER . THEN make @ good impression, end eem-= menced by meeting him at the etas | tion, On the way home tn a trolley eam to a Boston suburb they encouraged® their only child, also named Edward, to sit on the old gentleman's kneq, as he was stout, as much of it a wes available, Presently the small boy oe ae Derch and eldied over ot “Oh, Teddy, why? said mother a shocked tones, ! ready eyed his great uncle ag arlevedly, “Because every time he breathes out he pushes me off!" he com THE WAITERS ONLY COULD UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE! | plained.—Boston Post. pee WARTS AND MOL! Permanently and Palniessly Removed. | ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED | No Preparations or Depilatories Used. Ne Chat ane aatnan Te Be MME. 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