The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1917, Page 16

Evening World Daily N\agazine wiv hai February 8, 191 “THE OFF DAY’. He Missed His Train, and the Porter Is Going to “Catch It!” By Clifton Me About Plays! and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY | ALLID FISHER, prima donna, Jast seen and heard on Broad- way in “Watch Your Ste the New Amsterdam Theatre, ing Into vaudeville in a sketch called “The Choir Rehearsal.” The author of the playlet is Clare Kummer, who wrote “A Successful Calamity,” now at the Booth, with William Gillette as ite etar, and “Good Gracious, Anna- belle,” which recently left the Repub- Me, Miss Kummer also furnished the blic the ditty “Dearie! Mies er, in “The Choir Kehear- sal,” will sing several numbers writ- tem and composed by Miss Kummer, Edwin T. Emery is staging the act. NOT IMPORTANT. | Harry Leo, while in Jacksonville with George M. Cohan tly, was wm @ club which had a diminutive negro boy among it! ttendants. Every few minutes the boy would go te a telephony and say; “Hello! What? Yessah! Goodb: Finally Harry asked what the calls were. | “Oh, nuffin’ at all!” replied the Nae cise sere aay. ome we | oes pee TAW-W THe 1DEA OF wy Way at PPeor ite CE ese aw, ot ie A AN THELERY AN’ STARVING A DINNER FER A Lae Louise M. B. of “POOR LITTLE | FELLAH ene) THatte Two PeetHutt] oF CHICKEN AN ‘THUM TUTTAH BREAD THe Power OF SUGGESTION Baldwin, L. 1, has written us asking whether or not, we are handsome. Modesty, of course, CANARY T3IRD, ed AN o idine nit ques A PEETH OF PIE were gotte ts tel AN A GLATH OF her Judge for her-| — MILK self. Accompany- | ing these few lines {9 @ picture of us, of which we are very proud. It is an exact likeness, even to the fulness of the Adam's apple, which is due, by the way, to teo much cider, TALENT WILL OUT. By a mere chance a very talented young woman was discovered in the Hippodrome chorus the other day. Of | course, there may be others there, but their Christopher Columbuses haven’t happened along as yet. The young woman is m as Vora Notte, At one of the rehearsals of the ahese! and x 7 i) Se ashen, ‘t absent jurnside @ydody present could play. Up SK CREE EK popped Vera with “Tear tres ei HENRY HASENPFEFFER D @o well she attracted unusual voles UIT 1011, Proms Pawiating On. CY. Rreaing World) is really Molasie ‘Dorteavors s pitas Nee © “MEY. Your ) iors a pra eS= ON Been TEC INis Dupll of the Paris Conservatory. WIFE. AT “THY “House WOON “To HAVE, BUCH (wy, wuziny You “THere,, pienlot, Chefies Dillingham mage nor | ({2 CANES LEAGUE” LACT A WNiFe PSHE GAVE * MR. HASENPFEFFER # WHY No-x reer on neass| (gc Nes ese?) MEF Mg the ¢: ——— is ice bi pribh Stuben, Whe see eet td ) Nea-o ) x + SHE TOLe ME, “MRS. Goor”! px MRS, GooF*! BY WAY OF DIVERSION. C4 Said Silas McGuggin, in Peeweeple's lye “The eating Oe isa oy tne borate cafe and there set a man etowing bean soup away. He gussied at = Pye \y), we | & box. “Well, Grandpa, how ‘bout | \t?" exclaimed Alex Knox. “I guess Um the feller,” was Grandpa's reply. | “But, say, lemme teil you how Silas st pie, He jabbed it until it had jelled rather thin an’ then, with his knife, be jest shovelled it in.” Old arose and he stalked through the door. Said Jed “Well, I never! Copyrtaht, 1917, rene Huntianing Oe (NY Evening Wan) Jack Norworth has applied for ad- ought 8 oR pena a pai? | too tull of wittystssoms to ete akrost | married three times. frum me." i" il, Hennery,” ses my mother, did sound like ‘Hee, haw, Anyway, It Was Time Little Boys Were in Bed! ACCORDING TO B. BROWN. | sneeze are a ticklin’ of the noze 3 gum it are @ exploshun of| ; 3 the fase like @ small kloudbirst. One| my father next day, “if Fe ‘ahi Fae day my father, my mother an’ moe) you want a woman to stand by you in wus at the ‘bordinghowse tabil,| Maar F A Akgost the tabi! wus a kranky old) SY et kha LOOEY ano AXEL MORE THAN MOST MAIDS DO. |by a high brick wall. ‘That is the sez my father, “you are | | sae are getting desperate| town house of the Duke of Dea, one a," @ defunct woman to call yer husband mule.” ‘Then he went out. td with @ certain servantiess lady, | Of Our inraeat landed proprietors,’ The eyes of the beautiful can girl on the rear seat we iNuminated, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger, She was, therefore, quite| d when the registry office peo- | * man. My father sneezed twict an’ ple sent her a possible maid, | ver antes Bimt" she eeie Hee haw! Heo haw Gossip. « iN Le re you a good cook?” whe asked avery body's, ‘The kranky old man luked upp Mary Ryan and "The House of ] T agai cone te wea WHO BOUGHT? ra an her naime wus Maude.” | Ginss’’ are beaded this way from the ERRI BLE IOM | » 1 don't cook,” was the reply + sur?” come frum my) West father. “Ile have you to no I'm a y sik man an’ nede a docktor.” ‘T case!” snapped the Mag- istrate, Raymond Hubbell has returned | REEL Ww troning? ré you accustomed to waser| th) = afraid [ couldn't do either; a m9 from Chicago, where he visited John | e too bad for the hands.” Into the dock was thrust "Enuff!" ses my father, “You are/which bears a Wrist watch, She| i Se ro F< le lM ti dn doesn’t bave to set the watch, as the| dog 1s @ setter. Biz Gergely of Her Soldier Boy” HE EVENING WORLD | has applied for naturalization papers, |] | She is @ native of Budapest. WILL PAY | Barnett Parker, Sam Edwards and | |] | Jack Donnelly have been enga, | the new Shubert Ten Dollars Wher cunts FOR THE BEST NAME For ||| Hayconnection wil * THE CHARACTER IN for Grand Opera Mabel Weeks, who retired from the “ 99 ||| stage several seasons ago, will sing The Off Day,” | serine na nee, 0 8ine DRAWN By |] | the Standard next week. “Certainly not!" This was quite | 203¢ i decide “I'm not strong enough.” |, "You are charged,” @ald the Magis, , then,” asked the exasperated | trate, severely, “with being in a at lady of the house, “what do you do7| Of, beastly Intoxication, aren't you? j ry rr hat is your name?” 1 dust!” replied the girl plactdly, Pry a Pee Vie Sire DI y Ma name, Yer Honourrer,” replied HAD NO MONEY FOR MEAT, nit ead eked. tt eee IL, SPRING-RICE praised | Allan McPherson Fergus MacLean ves ta Washington, tie] 4,”And whe bought you the haicy 2° sp pe . nanded the Magistrat ernly— and allowances made| Everybody's Magasin ys giish government in the - —=>—_—_ A BACKWOODS CROESUS. Wn ae is variously estimated. glish Government after this| “won't have to be there yesterday. Read thie entertaining comic Cohan & Harris are to wend “A every night in The Evening || |Tallor-Made Man" on tour this spring, won't have the ring of truth that it! cessible communitie ther: may have sometimes had in the past.! Missourl, Wearying at tat ap the “A schoolboy, you know, once| monotony of his life, he grew eager to , i yy ere Be in different parts of the coun- Walter 8. Baldwin wires from Min- vi ¢ ingratitude, 4 r this war the try. “Bud” Bowers had grown neapolis that his wife, Pearle Mel- " schoolboys’ definition of a veteran a Clifton Meek. ville, a sister of Rose Melville, died = - fo manhood in one o€ the woes Hime o naa 0 ana wrote in his examination paper: |leave the hills, His father, who was World until you become famil- |] | G"*t Mitchell heads the cast aa a,poldier Ja called @ vege-|a hunter and trapper of muh local ‘ar with ite intensely human ||) ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES, ' Te pore wt haat haa @ 7s character and hie humorous M. L. Clarke—Never heard of bh “hard luok” adventures. Then ||| a diank tascst try to think of the best name Thaler—From Elisabeth Marbury, for him. Get your friends to ||| Titer, Bullding: if at all. She con- Ince--You can get his address from contest will close his oMcea, Room 1401 Times Build- Wednesday, Feb. 28. Ten dol- ing. to The Even- nev | “But what chanct has a youn, MIXED UP, |got to git ahead here, I'a Snie gre éalled on her newly mar- | *!0w?" Gloomlly demanded “Bud,” |. “What chanct!” ejaculated ried friend, Bella, and found her | father, “Why, just AC, pws AJ attired in a businesslike overall,| When I fust come here from Kaine while her arms were full of fashion | tucky I didn't have nothin’—not noth- nd cookery books. in’. “And Jest look at me now—I got po!” she ned, “What are | nine dawgs ‘Youth's Companion, ing to um - you “Some cakes,” replied the young WORTH TRYING, ing World reader who submits gE cares pg eneyee wife, proudly HE small boy etood at the gar- / ‘avorite play- Ct a the name selected by the con- |I! wright, George Hroadhuret repied: | ee reat aattna teenie eee den sate and howled end test judges. Bayard Veiller! I made a lot of Write the ni on @ postal onfessed Bella, rather howled and howled, “I'm @ bit of a novic A passing old lady paused 0 you select money out of his ‘Within the Law,’ rd, sign your and now he has a big hit, ‘The Thir- king. Tell me, do you make | him. teenth Chair,’ in a theatre which is Z t ecipe atte: “What's the matter, little man?! ewn name and address, and || tort mine” le te Aree alee ee she asked tn a kindly votoe, send it to “The Off Day Con- ais Seni eest "O-0-0h1" walled | the you test, Evening Worid, FOOLISHMENT. “Pa and ma_won' @ me te P, a Hyigy es ms Ny 4, Kieret Mim Mary Mor AN EYE TO BUSINESS. pictures to-nigh we rem yew Yor’ Si RY Mother woe Ne Mt ald he PARTY bent on "Seeing Lon-| “But don't make euch @ ” You may submit more than one Ifen nat’ kigtine pour kis, don” rolled out of Hyde Park | Said the dame admonishingly, name, but not more than one Bome men can't be sauclched, ge, ta, tee! | in @ big automobile and ls.| ey, ever, take you when you fame on each card. Do not T ops 2 One er Tike thas . FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. tened with undiviuised Interest to the] “S-sometimes they 40, aatwes? write lettere—use postal cards. | “She's a musictan clear through.” suide's explanations of the various| sometimes they 4-d-don’t!” | “True, bye ehe's the thinnest pint 1 places. of interest. Presently they! the boy. “But {t ain't ne je cow.” 4 « § ( puescd ah uuvledl edilice surrounded yelll"—Answenm _ ~ q }