The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1917, Page 12

eS PE AO fe DT Ca a Byening World Daily Magazine and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY | JHE dramatic critic Newspaper was busy yesterday afternoon so he asked us to sub for him at the Princess Thea- tre, where the Twelfth Night Club gave its first public revel. We aocepted the job, and in a very short time found ourselves In a seat among curtain went up, and Burton Green, planist, and three other musicians, appeared on the stage and hit off quite @ iively tune. Mr. Green played in pale gray socks, while the other musicians wore the conventional black, After the curtain had come down and scrambled the music stands John BE. Hazzard stepped out and) & song called “When You're Full of Talk and There's Nobody Around.” Oharies Previn manipulated § the ivories for Mr, Haggard, and his smile brightened up the stage won- derfully, When order was restored "Fifty- Fifty,” « farce by the w. k, Milton Royle, was played by Roy At- weil, Irene Franklin, Selena Fetter Royle, Percy Ames and Emmet Shackelford, It won't do. Then came George MacFarlane with » couple of songs and a story, We had never heard the songs before. Mr, Mac- Farlane responded to a nice plump encore with Mr, Previn and amile at the piano, The next number on the menu yn & sketch “The Confession,” b Pearce Bailey, M.D. Fania Murinof, who was the star, 1s some actress, and | when she killed herself with a dagger it was fine. Francix X. Conlon, as the Itatan youth, looked and acted #0 much like Hick Swazey of Wheaton, Kan., who once licked us, that he got our goat, For our general opinion of “The Confession” see reference to, aaa hols “And now for a bon “Doctors should stick to thelr pitta” When the gloom cleared away we drfed our eyes and sought the subway. absolutely broken-hearted. Later we! learned that Laurette Taylor and Henry Stanford did well with their! one-word play; also that there were more songs, some poetry and every- thing. ! Now for the punch in the finish: ‘The revel had its good points, but we don't believe it will run more than a week, at the most. A TOURING BOX OFFICE. Charles Dillingham has introduced the first touring box office ever utilized by @ New York theatre. It in being operated in connection with the Hip; drome’s excursion bureau Mur Lachman js taking the touring box of- fice over the New Haven lines. Be fore he returns to New York with it he will have visited Bridgeport, N don, Hartford, Waterbury and half a dozen other 7 “Portmanteau Box Ot Uckete for the Hippodrome. IT CAME FROM BROOKLYN. A Brooklyn woman, according to a jotter just at hand, appears to have the wrong idea about Lee Shubert and Lew Fields, | “WHI you please answer in your colunun,” she writes, “the following: ‘The place to apply and the person to see for to get a part in & drama such as L2e Bhubert or Lew Fiel Once in @ while we run wu | dispenses gainst | ® question we cannot answer, ang | this fe one yiays. | BY WAY OF DIVERSION, | Thu little boy who lives next door ve strangely We've never seen these We've never seen, busy | ye day wnd I, in spirit, join ith intrest more than keen, aarches soldiers here and there mind I'm marching, too. We ,¥ high mountains, rough and %, aa wil real soldiers do. Hach We put the foe to rout with ynel Boy on hand to shout his or- vere while the drum rolls out a quick ep on the alr, The lately learned, Hes p pain, with limbs w birth, have spurned his brain, But still his sold ad die in trenches and on mountai Ugh, A warrior bold is he while l— Vm just a private, plain, | HE'D LIKE TO TRADE, & Plainfield, N. J., man who writes songs ls badly in need of a publisher ‘lo Harry Von Tilzer he has penned the following note: “Have written several compositions, gome of which are considered good, | Ja fact, our best newspaper was glad to print ame, and did. Can write words (without muczic) to slow, » dreamy waltz, to lively two-step, na- tional hymn or march, Could you ad- vise me how I might turn this talent inte coal, potatoes, beefsieak, and the iker™ Gossip. | John Cort’s musical pla “The Masked Mode),” will op quesne, Pittsburgh, bas Wallis Clark is breaki «ile comedy called fears,” at Pitteburgh th A new song by lied “How Was | introduced to-night ut the Shubert Theatre John B, Clymer is now doing “froe jance” scenario writing. He has jus: | “Reputa Love 0’ Mike" finished a photoplay called ion" for Edna Goodrich, —— | A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, | Bailey La Tour, who makes music on a comb tn vaudeville, is completely bald-headed, FOOLISHMENT. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “Why is the tip of a dog’s tail like peart of a tree?” I give it up?” #'s furtherest from the bark.” a “When Broke” call en “Uncle Ben" BENJAMIN FOX Reliable Pawnbroker so 8th nes noer it St x i of this Edwin | ‘*S’MATTER, POP?" Pop's Reptatio 's Repstation fer Veracity Is Firmly Established in This Household! NotsuD>DyY Courd EveR MAtfe Me (8 ¥ moons Copritert, 1917, Prose Pubiioning C6 OLD hos inhi Sth E GEORGE And More Than Human Hearts Are Sore, When Shoestrings Part to Meet No More! HENRY HASENPFEFFER é CouecteD THEY DONT OWE You NUTHIN'-AN' TH’ SEVENTH KICKED ME OUT ON Me. EAR ¢ ‘AU DAWGONIT TC CALLED AT “TH! APARTMENT House Myr) THAT fee Lived AN’ HAVE You CoLLECTeD HAT ‘BILL o| OF yews’ YDDINT Ger tT Hon? WELL Yer A SWELL COLLECTOR Ger “TH ’ MONEY PBs ae Tt +h f) SM (an. CONTI Coprriat en OT, its Prete RANMOUTA N.Y. Erm) Let ‘This Be an \ Atul Less Lesson to Flooey! |FLOOEY AND A} By Vic | HERE'S @ NICKEL FOR YoU OLEY ! SPEND IT FoR ANY OLD “THING YOU WANT WHAT ‘(BIG Cipy” IS THIS? THAT'LL MAKE A HIT WITH AXEL! 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Senone toners ae are reairan iis On rrr ‘ Answers to Last $ $ Saturday’s Puzzles 3 | eee: AST Saturday's “Big City” wae BALTIMORE, “equared clrole" was Frening, World reader are inelied to guia VELL, YOU VILL FIND \T BANE BAD BUSINESS TO STUFF OLEY WwiITy S$ Too BAD ABouT You Y'TIGHTWAD! 1 S'POSE|, » I SHOULDA GWE THE / Le NICKEL To You $ me KRIS-KROSSES $/$ See OE A the balance left on a dinner after the ~ You No, 1212 Seneca Avenue Horman Weluborg's trolley car conductor prob: N this “Kris-Kross" the object 1s > insert letters in the blank "TE letters tn the circle, with the squares to make five words, includ-| ddition of one of the four let- Ing the one given, which in the same|‘*"# In the corners of the square, ae order will read same from lett |!" lst Saturday's puzzle, when prep- p to bottom, just erly arranged, spell a word whieh desing with the added lettes, to the puzzles printed @ given in the “Puzzle | to right and trom t next week. aa “motor” does, Corner” ‘ } ;