The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1917, Page 12

Evenind World Daily Magazine About Plays| and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY | PJHADDIE think? Jack Nor W worth, song writer, vaudeville performer and intermittent hus- Band, is to become a producer of gen- wine, man’s size shows. He has Joined forces with Sam Shannon, the talent scout, and they are announcing they will put on a musical revue be- fore fall arrives. For the purpose of baving this revue written and com- posed properly Norworth & Shannon are importing R. P. Weston Lee, English song carpente: intention to spill much délight- | musical misery during tuelr me ‘ore . The p firm says he will have some important | @nnouncements to make svon regard- the principals. it le “important” the word? QUICK ACTION HERE. Wiltam (Bill) Wright of the Kaicm has a farm someswhere up- | Btate real hens on it. The other) he sent Sam L. Rothapfel a box, ef genuine eggs, right off the hens— kind Sam truthfully could have) jedged by saying, “Yours of| Tecent date received.” When the re- | “THE OFF DAY” A Telephone 1s a Great Convenience—for the Party CALLING! ‘’S’MATTER, You PEOPLE ARE ALTOGETHER Too NAMBY PAMBY WITH peeve H Yes, AND INYOUR DAY A Whore LoT OF TIN MY DAY We USED Yo Pict EM UP BY THA EARS To TEesT THEIR Pruce om caw what was in the box he jedly mobilized his Rialto ushers, &@ corfon around the precious and had tt escorted to hie mou. under heavy guard. Tiw auto then driven to the Rothapfel home by a trusted man. Though the box was carried out in broad day- Mght, the manoeuvre was s0 skilfully planned and swiftly executed that the ‘treasure was locked in the Rothapfel foe box next to the anthracite coal @afe before the highwaymen that throng Broadway knew what was coming off. SETTING HANAN RIGHT. Phittp Roman writes us to sey the oredit for the Cocoanut Grove (dea ‘albot Hanan, eon of the 1 not to Messrs, Dilling- Ziegfold. Mr. Roman says Mr. Hanan guve a Hawatian ball at the Casino, Narragansett Pter, on Aug. 18 last, and that he had the ball- Toom converted into a cocoanut grove. Alo, that Mr. Dillingham loaned Mr. Hanan a drop to use at the ball. “I think tn all fatrness,” concluded Mr. Roman's letter, “Mr, Hanan should get the credit for the cocoanut @rove idea.” Messra. Dillingham and Ziegfeld probably won't complain about who gets tho credit eo long as they get the money. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. ‘There now, Jimmy! Quit yer cryin’! Tt ain't nothin’ to be ticked. You'd 'a whipped, bim, no denyin’, if you'd ecratched, like him, an’ kicked. He's fots bigger an’ he's stronger. You put ~mp.a dandy scrap, Brace up, now! Don't cry no longed! Gee, I woutdn't care a rap. You sure had that feller puffin’. You wus tough to handle, Jim. In a year you'll knock the stuffin’ out of sech a kid as him, Mother lick you? Jest don't tell her. Naw, ‘course you ain't in disgrace. It's a whole lot ‘worse to boiler. Wipe those dirt e@troaks off yer face. Ali the gang has tooken lickin’s. Not a one will laugh at you. Grin, Jim—grin jest like the dickens, Tell ‘em what yer golu' to do, There now, Jimmy! Quit yer cryin’! You sure showed you had the stuff, You'll get big, as time goes flyin’! ‘Then you'll make HIM holler “nough!" FOR “LITTLE WIDOWS.” Besides Carter De Haven, G. M. Anderson has engaged Frank Lalor, Marry Tighe, Robert Emmett Keane Flora Parker and Hattle Burks for “Seven Little Widows.’ TO RELIEVE CONGESTION. TraMc has become so congested In Vorty-fourth and Forty-fifth Streets, of Broadway, at theatre time, t the Messrs, Shubert have decided to ask the City Administration to make the private lane between the two streets, just behind the Astor Bote, a thorouehfare under the name of Bhubert Place. At the same time ey will are that Forty-fourth and y-fifth Streets be made one-way thoroughfares in the vicinity of the + theatres, of which there are sevep. IT BOTHERED HITC! Raymond Hitchcock had one experience in filma, It didn't last Yery long and then he went back to rf the regular stage, where he can make speeches. It was while he was work- ing for a comedy film concern that turns out rough pictures that he was proached one evening in a Los Rageies cafe by a friend from New York. “What are you doing out here?’ asked the friend. “Working in comedies for the So. | and-80 Company,” replied Mr, Hitch- “Oh, wo you're making up with cus- Aard ple nowadays,” was the other's; comment. And the following day, the story | goes, the comedian quit the job, Gossip, Archie Selwyn and family are go- fnig to Palm Beach for « viait lenry*Carrol!] announces that after he will be a “single” tn y ville. ade | Charles Purcell has beén engaged | for the new Shubert musical piece, “Nina.” Fannie Davidson, expert ice skate: ~ has been loaned to the St, Louls Wir ter Garden by St. Nicholas Rink. Peggy Wood of “Love o' Mike" and her father, Eugene Wood, are writing | @ comedy for production by the! Messrs. Shubert. | Marcus Loew will open the Lyceum Theatre, Memphis, to-night with a vaudeville policy. ‘Willis P. Sweatnam has recovered from his Illness and will appear in “A| Nigger in the Woodpile” in Atlantic | Gity to-night. | FOOLISHMENT. the doggie wag his tail!’ ee fed’ ter nce UHR an ‘Sant waa’ the dou. ** Fee THE CHESTNUT TREE. “7 quees I'll take a etreet car home.” “I wouldn't. I'd let th = is @ street car v YOUNG ONES Rew uPA KiTTLE-HARD O- HEARING® Seren 1917. 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