The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1917, Page 18

| amen and Players By BIDE DUDLEY AUDE ADAMS will conclude M her season at the Empire in “A Kiss for Cinderella” on May 6. Two days later the Charles Frohman Company will install three playlets by J. M. Barr! in the Bm- pire and devote the profits derived from their presentation to the es- tablishment of an American Theat- tical War Relief Funo. The playlets @re entitied “The New Word,” “Old Friends” and “The Old Lady Shows Hier Medals.” None of them has ever | Been seen in America. JACOBY 18 COMPOSING. Wlotor Jacoby is composing score for “The Runaways,” ® comedy in Which Billie Burke starred soveral| ago. It is reported the Charles) Frets Company wili use this piece & vehicle for Julia Sanderson, Joe Gawthorne and Donald Brian next mason, BY WAY OF DIVERSION. 21 wisht that 1 was runnin’ things,” @Ald little Johnny Peek, “I'd have! @4 Christmas come eround—well, | yybe onct a week. I'd have the urth come twict a month; also ankagivin’ Day. I'd cut out Bun-| ya—betcher life!—if 1 could have my way.” His ma was shocked. In Mental pain she yelled: “My! my!” with might and main. But Johnny kept it up, Said he: “School teach-! @fs are a bore. I'd put ‘em all In jail year, an’ maybe ‘twould be more, ie folks what makes their boys take | baths wou! ! all be told to quit. Ob,| I'd reform thie land of ours, I'd ‘ix! it up a bit.” His ma, amazed, got out @ strap and placed the boy across her Jap. ACTOFS IN WAR MOVE, All branches cf the theatrical pro- feasion will be represented at a meet~- ing at the Lyceum Theatre at noon| Bext Monday, to be held under the Quspices of the Actors’ Fund, to con- r what assistance the stage may able to render this country in con- ection with the war. Daniel Froh- man will preside, SHE'S MAIZIE NOW, If you have occasion to address May nm of “You're in Love” per- lly from now on, you will kindly her Maizie, Miss Thompson has ered that there are three other Thompsons in the theatrical eas, and she prefers to be the only one in captivity, Golly! Sup- the Abraham cones should de- AND 80 A certain vo ng woman singing in “Hip, Hip, Hooray!" found whe didn't haye time to march in the Fecent Hippodrome de, and it has deen suggested that she resign from the troupe “for the good of the ser- vice.” who is *TWOULD BE A CINCH BET, Lee Fisher of No, 248 Grand Street has applied for the of “Our East Bide Poet.” He says he's a nice young man with an ambition to get along in the world and submits the follow- MOB « pont, 1 should jihe to be, asian ff Sp make sour rants compenestion. ia tron bem do © prises make, es ree sure, oyoen bE ection. CORSE AT IT AGAIN. ‘The Corse Payton Stock Company ‘wil open a spring season at the Lex- mn Theatre, April 24, under the direction of Ray C. Owens, ' Gossip, Dixie Girard will leave the Hippo- drome Saturday night. “Johnny Get Your Gun" will close fle run at the Criterion this week. Hayden Talbot will leave for the r West in ten days ahead of Henry Miller and Ruth Chatterton. Phyllis Neilson-Terry will play Ophelia in the mad scene from “Hanm- Jet" at the Palace next week. George Bronson Howard, author of “God's Man," has taken charge of the William Fox Film Corporation's @Penario department. Nine hundred and eighty residents Ansonia, Conn., arrived in New ik last night to see the Hippodrome Annette Kellerman did the mia flop, a new dive, uis J. Beck has been engaged as manager of Gladden James, film star. Mr. Beck is personally acquainted Tem journalists all over the country, and Eugene Kelcey Allen. An announcement from the Messrs. Shubert would indicate that John Charles Thomas is to be starred in “The Highwayman,” which is soon to| be revived. The first presentation of the new Biegfeld “Midnight Frolic’ scheduled for next Monday, will not take place until Tuesday. A delay in the de- livery of acenery caused the postpons- t. Bayard Veiller has gone to Gedney Farms to remain a month and finish @ play which William Harris jr, will juce. The play will be tried out fm Atlantic City in July, BOB TOM'S JINGLE. Robert Thomas Hardy, magazine e@@itor, and a man who bas often sent WS rejection slips, has mailed us a extracted from bis own hea¢ reat temptation to turn for his offenses tn the Wat with the future in mind, we'll print the rhyme. So brace your Berves—here it comes F Mary had. little clam © A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, The Kelton (Wyo.) Tribune tells] &@ young butcher who slices meat | Bae a peng taco, Maybe he has| @-sharp nose. 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