The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1917, Page 16

‘’S'MATTER, About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY | NH BUCK, who has done much writing for the Ziegteld Follies and Midnight Frolto, has been commissioned by Kiaw & Brianger to supply the book and lyrica of a musical play to be pro- @aced by this firm next season. The mame of the composer is yet to be an- Rounced. Joseph Urban will design ‘and execute the scenery, Mr. Buck recently returned from London where Dave Stamper and he furnished a | production for the Hippodrome. He was born in Detroit, the home of that | other famous man, Henry Ford. ‘THE TWELFTH NIGHT SHOW. The Twelfth Night Club will hold ita first public revel of the season at ‘the Prinosss Theatre to-morrow af- ternoon. Specialties will be offered-by Mile, Gebdriclie Dorziat, Flora Za- delle, Burton Green, John E. Taz-| sard, George MacFarlane and Irene Franklin. “The Confession,” a play- let by Dr. Pearce Bailey, directed by Mrs. James 5. Metcalf, will be acted by Fania Marinoff, Laura Hart, Francis X. Conlan and C. A. De Lima, | A farce by Edward Milton Royle, en- titled “Fifty-Fifty,” will ba cast | composed of Koy Atwell, Irene Frank- in, Selena Fetter Royle, Percy Ames and Emmet Shackelford. Laurette ‘Taylor and Henry Stanford will act a one-word playlet by frank Hagan. MAUDE 18 SORRY. Maude Fulton has written the Hip- podrome management offering to take the name of that big playhouse out of her play, “The Brat,” if Oliver Morosco will permit her to, She says she didn't know of the Hip’s Benevo- lent Association when she made the @firi in ber play & danoer whom iilness had thrown out of @ job at that thea- tre. In her note Miss Fulton states that “The Brat” was originally a magasine story which she wrote eleven years ago. At the Hippodrome it {s announced that all is forgiven, and if Miss Fulton will drop in, the association will give ber a nloe, big PLAY CONTEST FOR YALE. John who, with his wife, Mary Young, established @ “sea- son’ at the Garrick, 3 Beene 8 offer an annual prise the best play written by a stu- it. He instituted such a competition Harvard small, she vows, Since it came the folke and Bill must have had ten rows, Billy put it on last night— planned to make @ call. “Gee, bawl ness, gracious!” vame from Bue. “Don't you try to dance. Those tight pants, I'm telling you, haven't got a chance.” Billy couldn't fix bis My, the words he used! Mother was inclined to ory; father was amused. Billy's suit went in hid trunk; on the bed he sank, shouting, “Wahoo! Bingo! Bunk! Blank the blank old blank!” IT’S AN ILL WIND, 4c. One of the actors on the Gresley Square's bill at whom the White Rats threw things Tuesday night left the theatre with six genuine onions, AN IRISH NIGHT. 1. Wolfe Gilbert (who used to be EOET: “iy, Prete penancinn Om (tT megane Ise OLD GRINDSTONE GEORGE | Avon , OF CAKE’ GIR “To Bre “To EAT ¥ NUDAWGoNE FUSSY — AINT . " GodD NUFF FOR You \'FATHEAD 2? ORDINARILY ~ NEZZA Lowie Wolf) will sing “Erin” at a St. Patrick's Day oelobration Satur. day evening. Other Irish songs will be contributed by Barney Kantrowitz, laste Cohen and Ike Greenbaum, Moo | ” Stein will play the plano. IN “THE FUGITIVE.” In the support of Emily Stevens tn “The Fugitive.” which will open at the Thirty-ninth Street tre M day night, are Conway Bmery, Charles Harbury Maclarnie, Duncan Meltae, Warwick, William HRoyd, Paul Doucet, WIT AND HUMOR. Frohmer awoke yesterday with his nouth wide open, so he got up and 1 Lippodrome Ushers’ Ga FOOLISHMENT, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, bad spell of sickness.” Charlotte Granville, Annie Hughes! and Alice Johns. Gossip. | : “Don't forget the Fourth of July TWO OF EACH, CONGRESSIONAL committee went to a northwestern State matinee of ‘I ulton,” | said J. red Z 1 A George ¥. Smithfield hae beer to assist In opening an expost- aged to ac mn repertoire with the | Bavereaux Players under the Civie| tion. ‘There was a parade in the Club's auspices morning, in which all the visiting They explore the stage of the Man- hattan Opera House each day with magnets in omer that ‘oes of the dancers in “The Wan * won't be punctured by tacks. “A Night in Am “a patriotic ensemt open at Healy's Ca Joseph C. Smith Arthur Hamr a new musical comedy in olf Frim! will furnish th jatatesmen rode tn automobiles, The local committee brought the cars around to the leading hotel scheme was to have two Senators or Representatives and two local men in each car After the Vice President and his | party had been sent away a local notable who was acting as a major- domo came into the lobby of the ho- tel where the statesmen were waiting rest. o r and bawled The picture machino man at the!" nwo Congressmen and two gene Ito got the film in upside do! ve Mr cy, “ts dened Wis ae, | tlemen, pleare!"'—Boston Globe, just as Sarah Bernhardt was about to | a appear on the s« Bophye Barn girls who appear with her in t Butterfly” number at the Hippodrom after the sick fund benefit at the Globe Sunday Ro Lorrens, soprano, is a singing u Richard another dip tn v Anna Held » low Me” in After she lef vertised “Fol sermon, Irving Berlin saw “8 ica,” described as in two aets,” will to-morrow night. Ru Mr Frim) has gone to Los Angeles for a music QUITE RIGHT, HE budding chased @ wuthoress had pur- typewriter, and one morning the agent called and arranging | **ked | “How do you like your new type- wing to take| writer, madam?" | “It's wonderful!” w he enthusl- i reply, “I wonder how 1 ever .| done my writing without it.” “Would you mind a little k in Washington re @ Baptist minis w Me | atic asked the agent, civilian ena imontal to that », Look, LAs: | erect 2" ten” in Buffalo the other night. ‘An| eee es actor spotted him in the audience and| “Certainly no she responded and | “I'll do tt gladly.” Harry A a8 arranged a bill 1 a Bec 1 out the following: of profensional to entertain Ve Rattan Using thee” Automatia mene © mbUS | Backaction atype Write, er for thre at its Irish carnival, Saturday night, in| BACK an d Over, I unhesittat. | Bt, Veronica Schoo! Hall 7 unhesitta than th e Manufacturss claim ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES, Durind the tin @ been in my Daily Reader—Foote ts single, Cour-| sion $1 thre Month tt h 0 fenay marriod eet iP rt pig Boe Interested, Brookly A mix n up injdm e anbD plans bas delayed the story. Magauine, f ‘or posses saVing laborr? The verself at the machine, she} tingly pronoun ce it tobe al ad more | had more th an off bverybody's | I NEver FEEL (T eiTrter \ KIND (FACE cae z 6 VELL- (F HE HAD BEEN My PAPA VOULD AY LOOK | LIKE Him? \ / | | PAPA! UNCLE FLOOEY SAID AY LOOK LIKE. YOU — DIDN'T HE? uel uel. HEY AXEL! CAN Y STEP OUT | ‘the jal ™ Sarah Samson swimming. denly she seemed sinking, | Samuel stood stunned, | Ward, spurning shingle, Sir swiftly swam Sarah-ward, skilfully Sarah, | Samuel successfully succored § Seeming somewhat shaky sampled some splr Sarah rificing spirit, | rah's sweetre: | sought Sarah, “Say something, Sir Samuel,” Sarah, “Say ‘Sam,’ Sarah,” @ald Sir Sam-| he said, as they stood “A German give it me A little piqued, the doctor thow the foe had come to convey his | token of esteem and affection “"K tad to,” was the laconic reply, — Toronto Globe. | _Good “Stories SOME B8TORY. SAMUEL SIMMS saw sweet Striding supporting swooning Swimming shoreward, Sir its—spec aw Sir Samuel's self- Sir Samuel saw Sir Samuel soon Striding slqwly, Sarah Sir Samiel seemed td smiling shyly, softly sald ee HIS GENEROSITY. “TOMMY,” lying in hospital, had A beside him @ watch of curtous and foreign design, The attending doctor was interested. “Where did your watch come from?" he asked. he answered nquired ee QUITE UNNECESSARY, N answered, in an angry mood, which was not im- proved when he found that was not running. to answer your call a running.” “Weil, you se Zeps were reported and we were American stopping at a Lon don hotel rang several times for attendance, but no one He started for the office litt” Descending two flights of stairs, he met one of the i HANNA chambermaids, A AT “What's the matier with this AUNT dashed hotel?" he growled, "No one no elevator sir,” said the maid, ed to the cellar for safety @acuated the American, YJ | was on the fifth floor and 1 wasn't | warned,” “No, sir,” was the bland rep! “but you don't come under Dility Act, wir— THEN THE STAR TWINKLED, ONG had he worshipped her at » distance, but his shyness pree vented him from proposing Then, one night, for the sweet sake jof charity, a theatrical performance j took place, in which the charmer wag |the leading woman and more adora jable than ever, Afterward the shy jadmirer drew near his sweetheart, |made vallant by the si} beauty, ant “You are the star o of heg f the evening,* alone in a core ner, OF | “You are the first to tell me go. said the damsel, with a happy blushy Then," he retorted promptly, “may, claim my reward as an astrone | omer?” The wor n looked puzzled, 4d?" he asked _ tar T have discovered! ing aid, speaking boldly ag ‘a, London —_ REASON ENOUGH. VERYTHING tn the dear old vile lage seemed the same to Joneg after ae absence of four years, The old church, the village p ducks ob the reeny tine Ruane the “What re “Why to the the old m smoking while their’ wives gossip: was so restful after the rush and bustle of the city, Suddenly hb missed something ake: “Where's Hodge's windmill?” hy asked in surprise one mill, and there used to be two? The native gazed thoughtfully around as if to verify the statemeng Then he said slowly: “They pulled one down, The weren't enough wind for two of ‘em Argonaut, 1 can only m |] “When Broke” cai! on “Uncle Bon’ BENJAMIN FOX Reliable Pawnbroker | ‘12 Bth Ay gear 14th Si ' DIAMONDS, WATE L Nt BL Rareeins he ABS