The evening world. Newspaper, April 3, 1917, Page 20

50, eSNG NER TIME EEE ATE PORTERS . [__comre race | Evening World Daily Magazine ¥ Teething Baby Is "No Respecter of Persons! About P1 ays: and Players By BIDE DUDLEY « ADGE,” a new play by Mrs M Justine Lewis, was accepted in jig time yesterday by Lee Shubert and John Craig for produc- tion by the Craig- Young org ation, now appearing in Boston in “He Said and She Believed Him.” At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Mr. Cralg sub- mitted the play to Mr. Shubert and at 6.16 the latter had read !t and Mre. Lewis was leaving the Shubert offices with a substantial advance royalty check. There is but one fe male rolo in the play. The parts for males number seven HE PLEADS FOR SUPPORT. Businoss has been so bad for regu- lar §2 attractions in St. Paul, Minn., | lately that L. N. Scott, manager of | the Metropolitan Theatre, the city’s | only house playing first-class shows, has had printed in the St. papers a card stating that, unless the | public gives his house better support, | he will open it next season with @ cheaper form of amusement. “Fair and Warmer” at the Metropolitan last week played to the smallest re ceipts it has struck in some time BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Baid Silas McGusgin, in Peoweeple's store: “Food prices are higher than ever before. If 1 was in charge of this country you'd see the jails fil- ing up, now just take it from me!| ‘The man who boosts prices commits| & reat crime and ev'ry blamed one! of ‘em ought to do time. If 1 had my! way in this country | swear I'd nee that you all a deal that was * said Grandpa McGee with a grin, “how much will you take for that wheat in your bin’ “Why sell it? I'l keep ‘Twill double in price, #0 the wheat experts say.” “That's just what I thought,” said old Grand- be McGee. “That you're a reformer| is easy to wee.” Sald Silas out out your insults, you anid He left and Jed Peeweople laughed til) he; orted. STEVENS—ELLIS. | ‘The engagement ts announced of | Josephine Stevens, daughter of the nd “Fatty” Ar- oman In films, and gotting ready to Eéward Ellis, who Blackie Daw in “Get Rich Quick play Wallingford.” The wedding will be celebrated when an Arbuckle film called “The Butcher Boy” !s finished. ACCORDING TO B. BROWN. ‘The bare are the animile that Mis- ter Kindl! the Inglish Spring poet, says walked like a human man. on the ends of his hands ? r growlin’ than Pop dus about mi /sister’s singin’. Thar 4 three kynde of bares--biss ttle bares an’ Russian bares. bare back ryders in showes. are 4 dangirous animile. 1f you loose won comin’ at you doan't fale to rupm fer you may nevir git aguthor chanet. The bare has hare all ovir himself an’ nevir combs it. It's a xud thing m! mother doan't own no bare, fer abe wud go cragie tryin’ to ait Brown. him to comb uls hare.—Bol. NUTT SPRINGS A JOKE. A man stopped Jeff Nutt, the com- e@ian, on Broudway last night a id asked him. concerning the abouts of a mutual friend named | Lyon. ° “He's working on a newspaper pied J he doing *” “Lyon is a cub reporter.” ‘The other man was 80 pleased with re- where- {House April | “’SIMATTER, A DIAMOND Guess “MAS. Been Come WHEN HER BLIPPED HER SUCH Ao EXPENSIVE PREGENT ! OLD GRINDSTONE GEORGE HENRY HASENPFEFFER NeckLace Hun? ) Goorus’ MUSTA SURPRISED HUSBAND Tuesday, April 3, 1917 EUFY “Little Lady t leading role in the joke that Jeff succeeded in bor rowing $9 from him. Gossip. “Cheating Cheaters” will leave the! #ltinge Apri! 14, A film called “Birth” will succeed it there, Jack Rosenthal bas a dog actor) named Snide. He in trying to Sign | up to play the bark on ‘The . ‘Thee. 6 Evans, who used to be in Billie be companies, has returned from d. where she spent a year ‘The new cidition of “The Follies” will open on Decoration Day, I". Zieg- feld jr. bas engaged Allyn King for ® Bisrios Lester Glett is to quit musi- cai comedy for good and will here- after be found doing what he calls bis “beloved picture work.’ Blise Bartlett, the comely film star, was seen on Broadway yesterday with & young man named Marsh who looked very proud ‘Aaa tribute to Frances Starr, mem- | bers of the Samoset Democratic Club will wear blue ties at the Bronx Opera Chair,” a meeting of the Th at the Hotel Astor, I teenth Marie Nordstrom has been added to | The play will be; Blue.” Margaret Wycherly, “The will be the guest of honor at who has the ‘Thirteenth eatre Assembly riday the Thir- the cast of “The Passing Show of 1917." has been appearing in vaudeville for several years Chin Chin, the baby elephant, was given a part in “The Big Show™ at the Hippodrome last night. Dixie Girard and Sophye Barnard intro. duced new songs by John L, Golden and Raymond Hubbell A THOUGHT FO R TO-DAY. Never hit a man when he's down, | He might get up, you know FOOLISHMENT. Today J tied to write a fume ‘ 5 an my Ove Laster wor ‘Went All the, time was "bonne! FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE “Do people often dl mit of Pike's Peak?” “No. The fo is ne on the sum- essful By Jk Salesmanship Barrett Captivating Dealers’ Clerks. “ O be solid with a customer 16 good,” said a ieularly suc cessful salesman recently. “But, if your customer tn a de be solid with his clerks is ev ter. For in a store of any size it is bet the clerks who are in direct contact , with the public; {t is the clerks who ean guide the buying Impul: uncertain purchaser. And, very of- it is a clerk who selects the arti- for and trims the windows. Then, too, as a business grows, the| proprietor is likely to delegate aj good deal of his buying to some one of his clerks “I make it a rule to become well acqudinted wit my — customers’ Slerks And I see that they're @Boroughiy posted on the talking Bumstead’s Worm Syrup Seah merit, points of the goods vitally important do that | have at var our sales manager to >} tests with a view the attention of our ¢ apon our product “In our most unique ed by a pur his buying These contests a will an t practteal ¢ partment “Don't overook my advice to a se the retail trade tig: | brea any concern on your side.” to concent vain office we 1 consider this us times induced stage prize r ustomers’ clerks Mst 4 Seo that tger're! Yezzal rr ERGY “To See “THAT THEIR “ HONEY Moon” ALWAYS LOOKIN’ A CHANCE “To KNOCK CAN! FoR BIT oF ScANDALL 16 OvER—DEED IT 19¢ Dy <a Tear N'NEVER HAVE A Good 5 WoRD “To GAY 'BouT & Y'NEIGHBORS Now Wor TYH GAM HILL MAKES You < THINK “TH' “GooFUus’ ” ¢ HONEYMOON 10 OVER Hun? N'REAGON ? 5 Cony right. 1817, Pree Pusan (4 ¥ Bromine World By Bud Counihan WELL WHEN “THEY Go ouT ON A RAINY | DAY NOW N'FATHEAD ! DONT THEY CARRY “THEIR OWN UMBRELLAS P GOING UP! I'VE GoTTA GET A EM DOLLAR RAISE WE CAN AFFORD To Have ONIONS FOR DINNER AND WE CAN ALSO START A NICE LITTLE. BANK ACCOUNT ! THERE'S NO USE TALKING! WE CANT RUN OUR HOUSE ON MY PRESENT SALARY THE WAY FOOD PRICES ARE 1 KNOW L OUGHT To BE SHOT FoR THIS, BUT YOU KNOW How MUCH FooD COSTS THESE DAYS AND BESIDES I'VE BEEN} ‘THAT WAS EASY. HAVE ASKED FoR \T LONG AGo$ Now i WiSH I HAD ASKED ROR MERE) Vie Ni { The Office Force I SHOULD WITH YOU FIFTEEN YE “fi ~ AND SHALL 1 DRAW UP THE CONTRACT FOR You SIR ? : RN: TEN DOLL \ [ A WEEK FOR | \ cul weeks! } | By Bide Dudley wright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) “ LL,” sald Bobble, the office! "Now, don't get fresh! You may, ee he hung up his) tell me if it's not inguiting.” : sone “Because you're Primm—itive,” at en m going fishing) “Another abominable’ pun! Here xt week. Guess I'll have to get &) comes Mr. Snooks. I shall report it supply of lines and U boats.” | to bina. “Whatdye mean, you’ > Re @ entered. lye mean, you'll have to 86) said Miss Primm, “Bobble Fae we some U boats?” asked Popple, the | pared me to » the first ste boat |shipping clerk for the aake of a vile pus Hed 1 “Sinkers!" was Primm—litive.” he ARS ) TYRONE in, ARROW formfit COLLAR » TOPS AND BANDS ARE CU TO FIT THE SHOULDERS, pte. The b Miss Primm, private secretary to! yid,"" gt ig Mae Ben Iie | | the boss, swung around in her chatr. | thoi things right?’ When I iia yu | “Pay no attention to bim, Mr. Pop-| tbat one T eald the frst steam ¢n- |ple,” she said, “A U-boat, as we all! Be. Misi mm know, te @ craft that shoots torpe-| “Nene dit vse intaes the ten. does at the enemy vessels through @| Mr, Snooks?" she asked, periscope,’ “iBurel Like 11” “Where does the periscope get 1t8! said the + Rooowe, te perene Ane,” name?” asked Popple. it to my father, I know bert law oa “I think,” sald Miss Primm, “it was| When the boss had gone named after Admiral Perry, who in-| "EGO 1» me said, “Tt mak vented it.” | ference who 5; ; t pills the bi Lr “Naw, naw!" came from Bobble.| here, eh wot?" and are “The torpedo comes out tube.” “Keep still, you little sdfetl” ie rae er a RE a tube,” | snapped Missa Primi, Y o you mean a subway?” asked Miss Tillie went over and Misa Tillie, the blond stenographer, | Bobbie a dix. red apple. b aid innocently | = "Oh, for goodness sake!" sn.ckered| Miss Primm. "You don't think the oceans have subways like the one un- der New York, do you? Why don’t) you read up on things?” | “Miss Tillie is confused,” sald Spooner, the mild little bookkeeper, | “because the subways are called tubes. I'll explain to her. A tube, Miss Tillie, is a round thing that is very hard,” Ako your head,” suggested Bob- | bie, addressing the blond “Just a minute, there, kid, Al snapped Miss Tillie,’ “My head vol it's very soft.’ A tee Wenlosd.' sald Mine Primos, grinning. Here she turned to Be | know what I'm) bie. “By the saying when I talk about the perl- ‘ope. My mother was a great friend of a cousin of the Admiral's wife.” — | ‘Bobbie doesn't seem able to grasp the scope of the discussion,” said| CLUETT,PEABODYaéca, Popple tabetha. th 1 grasp the periscope,’ came fromm | the boy. "Now, as I was sayin | SUPERFLUOUS HAIR “Bobbie! snapped Miss Primm.} “You must cut out your terrible puna. | PAINLESSLY AND PERMANENTLY REMOVED If you don't I shall report you to Mr. ELECTROLYSIS ‘The only Snooks. “Guess I'll have to, then,” said the bo ey Deel oly Fir bermaneng! boy, "But listen—why are you like MME, ARCHER, 23 W. att) “=—* the first steamboat?" _