The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1917, Page 18

About Plays and Players By BIDE DU IDLEY a: manuscript of a new comedy by W. Somerset Maugham, uthor of “Our Betters,” which is the current attraction at the Hu 4on Theatre, has been received by Jobn D. Williams trom Honolulu, where the | playwright 1s sojourning. The new) piay ts called “Love in « Cottage,” and Mr. Williams plans to produce it in New York early in the fall. The cast| Will be headed by a well known woman asiar, whose identitfy bas not been re- vealed. HINTON TO THE COLORS. | Col. John ¥. Hinton has the distinc- tion of being ihe first thea al ad- vance agent to be called to the colors. Col. Hinton, who has been ahead of Os Skinner in “Mister Antonio,” wired Alf, Hayman, General Director of the Charles Frohman Company, from Waco, Tex, yesterday that be had been ordered to report for military duty with a militia regiment imme- diately. - Another agent was started for Oklahoma to meet Col. Hinton and re- Lieve him of his theatrical duties. BY WAY OF DIVERSION, A year ago old Grandpa said that tertain~ “they're pretty sad. 1 woulda give a pew ter dime to see ‘em picture pies and crime. “Twould merely be a waste of fite. They're bad, I tell you, bad.” But one day Grandpa was induced to see @ picture run. He chuckled and applauded and just had @ lot of fun. And when he came back home day he didn't have a word to He went upstairs and hit the hay as soon set the sun. Quite fre- quently we miss pa bas @ plan ing he must see Down to a picture show he goes, fact which ev'rybody knows, No about bad films he blows, Squeeze,” which is soon to produced in Allentown, Pa., und the direction of Ed Rosenbaum jr, Mr. Dickson is featured in the cast, for, be it known, he not only writes ‘ean, but acts ‘em too, Incidentally, this seems to be a good year for shows. Be- sides “The Love Squeeze” there are “Lave o' Mike,” ‘he Love Mili" and “You're in Lov HAMMERSTEIN LIGHTER. returned Arthur Hammerstein has from Bermuda, where he w 4 month ago to reduce his w improve his health. In tw diys of open air exe: pounds of Hammerstein fat and the theatrical man ca: with his clothes 7 merstein took ner with him. He engaged the Young Men's Christian Association: In. the Hebrow section of which Mr. Hammerstein js very active. ROGERS TO JOIN “FROLIC.” Will Rogers, the cowboy humorist, will return to the cast of the Ziegfeid Midnight Frolic,” atop the New Amsterdam ‘Theatre, next Monday . Mr. Rogers is with “The Foi- which closes next Saturduy| night in Baltimore, | CLASS TO STAGE A PLAY. The graduating class of the Manual) Training High School of Brooklyn} Will produce @ play as a part of its) class day exercises. Sixteen members| of the class, chaperoned by Mra, s.! H. Wright, saw “The Hig Show’ at the Hippodrome last night, aiming to ob. tain novel ideas for ‘stage settings and costumes for their show, Gossip. The Aborn Grand Opera Company will go into the Bronx Opera House| May 7 for five weeks. J. J. Shubert is taking @ course tn ‘@ining preparatory to slag he new Winter Garden show George M. Cohan, having b film star, was given some pletu flowers by the Friars yesterday Dorothy Dickson and Charles: Hy ron, dancers, bi the Cocoanut ¢ A. H. Woods, who ap his time in bis office took a day off Sunday with W. A. Brady in rt v of nds cost of lunge t the 4 [_comre “race | Evening World Daily Magazine | MATTER, POP?” ett at { Every Time OUR TRATSY (PUTS SOMETHING IN « \ His MouTH I'm SCARED G (fp xabaet: SWALLOW IT 2, a J To Change the Subject, Did You Notice How Curly the Baby’s Hair Ts Getting? an (Here's ONLY ONE )+Hin6 I Dont Gite “SCARED HELL SWALLOW, WHeN He Puts (7 \UIN +s mouTH Wars) His d: THAT (fa Ne | Foor OLD GRIN DSTON E ‘GEORGE HENRY HASENPFEFFER M™ LATE ‘CAUSE \ 1 Wuz CHATTIN’ AT PT SNADDER' —DAWGON' rt ALG ch C clu ae ess SS after an absenc wrong. She was a year or so ago. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. WITH “JASPER { GREAT ‘DETECTIVE’ Ee THAT BIRDS sie % EVER CUSS! 5 4 a - — e:, Ce OTT © of ten ye with Julian 4! NDONY Sa: Hes C MANY RCANTIC, ') FRAUDS “I ‘SPose: A ‘The Only Good Thing We Can Say of This Kick Is “That It Was Justified ! (Fraupstr GHourd SnicKeRt eee, FROM or! BOT HE GAYS TH’ MosT WHY @HE HADDA “TEMPER LiKe A WILD-CAT—SELFISH~ STUBBORN AS A MULE AN’ MEANER “THAN A (yee) a “TiceRt BUY SHE WuZz' NT Se e WELL Y'SEE HE MANAGE “To FIND OUT HER Binng.§ COMPLETE PIECE OF DecePTion He RUN .AGIN=WUuz ony WOMAN =ounG , PRETTY {AN APPEARED & ANGEL HeaveNng! How (N“TH™ ie © HANNAH-DID 7 CHAN Stn E He MARRIED By Bud Counihan rex! abelle Mae Doolittle a violinist who has just r a pens = rome ce tnmennnen isiusanetanes = | By Bide Dudley barged after thirty-two | / LL NEVER KNOW Pa 1 WONDER IF I SHOULD } \F You HAVE A COUPLE Of e orchestra says ve knew | | / ere : / 15 AGREAT euaT? ue. § / wy ‘ aN SHOW nyright, 1017, by ‘The Prea Uuvliahing Co, (Toe New York Kreving World.) n he took the job it woul be How | APPRECIATE “THIS \ 3 ree Have DONE HAT 2 HE / HUNDRED Hay \py 3 ‘i oe | HE Mothers’ Circle of the Wom-| silence, She got it, The poem fol- permanent i ine J {LLPAY (T BACK IN 7 TOBE ABLE } | WOULDN'T LEND ME A YOU HOW “TO’RUN IT UP INTO / I on'n Battasmant Seacue of Delnt| ! FOOLISHMENT To DO THIS \ ROowBOAT E. HE OWNED, THE. “THOUSANDS IN A | met Saturday afternoon to read bo rks ek 1 we FOR YOU THE. NAVY Few HOURS! (VE BEE NX eur A lileatarat papers relating to the raising ha do ++ FLATS | jof children, Eighteen members were FROM THE C ‘They may Japan is overstocked with flour.” Well, wait till the tropical sun begins to b HESTNUT TREE By H. J. many esmen assume 66 00 salesmen that similar tactics will prove eMecacious with entirely dif ferent people,” rema 4 particu larly sutcessful salesman Main this i @ mistake. "Although | rue t buyers can be classified « come one of several theless the individual» varia ¢udiess, You can't sell a p buyer, for example, by usin: uid, perhaps, secure results 4 anything by or man-to-man that in many Inst personality gained the de ds sig nature, The number of people who will buy things they don't merely because they are argu bulldozed into it ts amuzing why the quality of persistence is so Valuable to @ salesman, Lacking the will power to say ‘No’ and to abrupt- ly close the interview, the prospect will advance objection after objection, feebly temporizing in an effort to avoid signing the fatal blank “Phe records of any concern whieh ls upon the instalment plan ply fficient evidence of th num ble! les which are made under pressure ce | if, assing knows| parison, t ces sheer farce of | vestmen Successful Salesmanship Barrett ————————————<S a! Selling to Professional Buyers i# caught now and then in a weak moment by a strong-arm xulean Who suececds in bludgeoning an from him. T receives my sales the strong m school, 1 ta anvass which gradually” increaved ntensit until at the max, I Was exerting every ounce of foree ind 1 power | possessed, 1 made word magazir 1 whitte n this tle hardened, my strong They did not after careful my perfervid tolerance To wa would think to me whether cust | bought. My attitude ts this: ‘Here's @ food thing; |is strong points are as follows: I knew, of course, that you'd want to profit by it, so TF brought it around to show It to you. | This is, In ger my attitude Casual to the last degree. In. indi vidual Instances jored by my re chaser, Dut with do 1 spring any ‘Sign now ‘o the uninitiated the number of the-opportunit lapses is surprising, ‘The man who| With my client has not at some time tn bis life bought | work, My ver hing which he didn't want,; stimulate t couldn't afford, and tater regretted! othe biles buying, ts rare indeed, Most every quired. rrespondenc \e subserip 4 to welling 11 dealt profession arn My pre analysis an to-day, one » differenc n action my canvass Is col ations with the pu h none of these now-when Ine offern!! of talk won't TIPPING my FRIENDS V seventeen of them being | mothers, ‘The other Ellabelle | Mae Doolittle, the noted poetess of | Delhi. She was there by special in vitation of Chief Mother Biggles to | read a rhyme babies to Jassemblage, ‘The meeting was Ito order by the Chief Mother o'clock and the first number on the paper by Mrs. It was entitled present, was the alled at 3 about | programme was @ | Skip Hawkesworth | | Garbage eae? A great many of us are careless in |regard to garbage barrels,’ said Mrs | Hawkesworth Only yesterday If | saw the two Hahn children diving for an apple core in a trash can on Beautiful View Avenue. They were | fighting and” Barrel.” _ HERE'S THE TWO HUNDRED \ ‘ “E beg’ your pardc sald a . OV LOANED ME. J RAN IT } ion woman's voice coming from the rear 12 ot 0 “THe ND IN } / THERES ONE \ tof the room. he Hahn children \T pt : sin : | = > | r dive in ash cans and garbage : \ TWO HOUR BORN EVERY } Peale It's the Hawkesworth chil- ct f | 0 love trash." MINUTE aah | WLadieal” said Chief Mother Big \ | ‘Why quarrel over the | gles, sternly question of which children were ex ploring the trash? There has been no complaint from Uncle Benny Sprog- | gins, the old negro who collects the garbage, so why argue? We will now hear a paper entitled, ‘Babies, Dogs and Fleas,’ by Mra, Cutey Boggs.” Mrs, Boggs urged her hearers not to permit dogs with fleas to enter their homes. “But,” she said emphatically "if the dog must b in the house, run the baby out, ‘That will solve the problem, I believe.” Chief Mother Biggles next an nounced that Miss Doolittle would read her poem about babies. A hush fell over the crowd as the famous poetess stepped rostrum and ¢ t came @ Wi Miss Doolitue beid up one yo Not Let Your Infant Play in the) 4 final word of the poem rm of approval that rouse of its gen- Cyrus r hands but continued Miss Doo- ood up and applauded wit eat g All were ple RESPECT FOR THE SABBATH, “ 4L, over Scotland,” observed @ AS well known golfer, “tite Sab- bath is respected in @ most? markable w Golfing one day on e St, Andrew's links, | said to my caddie ‘'Angus, man, the jeaves are falle 4 ing. The green ts turning red and brown, Winter w 1] soon be upon us, And do you get much caddying to do in the winter “An Angus” as frowned gloomily he, “There's nae winter, If it's na : Us na frost it's snaw; if i's neither frost nor snaw it's rain, an’ if it's fine it's sure to be » Sawbath.’ "Detroit Free Press. bye BENJAMIN FOX re broker, 2 Sth Ave., near Lath St. (nee BE: Watohes, ae, Eumstea’s Worm Syrup v9" 1 oer | The Chilars eye es et