The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1917, Page 18

About Plays ~and Players By BIDE DUDLEY {ARLES DILLINGITAM baa! decided to end the Hippo drome’s season Saturday night, May 6. On that day “The Big Show” will have been aeen by ap-! ately 2,000,000 persona and will| ave been pr nted 425 times, The seanon at the big playhouse has been @ prosperous Vreliminary plane for the W718 show will be under prox! way © the bourse bas been dark & week, Added features will be the rule at the Hippodrome until the] present season is over FOR A SPANISH THEATRE. | An organization of Spanish players to present plays in Spanish has been formed and, under the direction of Francis Deane, will give five per- formances at the Garden Theatre be- ginning to-morrow evening. The com- pany is headed by Fernando lL. Ca- bello, The opening bill will be “La Tempestad,” an opera, This is the int- tial step in the direction of forming a Spanish theatre for New York. ROGERS PRAISES CASTLE. When Wii Rogers stepped out on the floor to deliver his monologue at ‘Tho Midnight Frolic," atop the New | Amsterdam Theatre Tuesday night, he spied Vernon Castle, now a British | war or, The cowboy went to the ‘astie table aud shook bands with the | former tango dancer. Then he pro- | voked a storm 0! applause by saying: | “Ladies and gentivmen, here's one | ea hound that_went out and made a gvod.” BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Perhaps you think your luck is bad. | lerbaps you're feeling blue. You're | possibly discourayed and you wonder what to ao, Don't go around as| though you were the driver of a| hearse, Be thankful you're not Kaiser | Bill, You see, things might be worse. | Your sky may be a sky of clouds without a ray of hope, Tbe altua- tlon’s one, you think, with which you cannot cope, Your creditors, perhaps. are mad; there's nothing in your purse, But what if you were Kaisor BUI? You see, things might be worse, So put that smile baclgon your face; get busy-—buckle in! You'll find your luck will change around und soon you're bound to win, “Go to it!’ isa motto, friend, as sturdy as ‘t's terse, Say, what if you were Kaiser Bill? You see, things might be worse STOCK FOR LIEB & HARRIS. Herman Lieb and Mitchell Harris are to take a flyer in stock this sum~- mer. They will move the Players’ Theatre Company from St, Louis to the Wilson Avenue Theatre in Cn! cago. Marguerite Herts will play tl feminine leads with Mr. Harris act- ing Opposite her. Mr. Lieb is to be manager and watchdog of the bank- roll. A WORD FROM MERRITT, Jack Merritt, the pidgeon-toed, red- headed boy actor in “Oh, Boy,” indignant, He writes us as follows: “There has been « lot of discus- sions about my hare not being| natirul; in other words, that I wear a wigg in ‘Ob, Boy!’ So please put im your column that it is my own hare and I will wish you lots of Iuck."* Nobody could ever make a wig like Jack Merritt's hair, It resembles a wild burst of flame on @ windy night. COHAN SENDS TWO CHECKS, George M. Cohan fecently sent a check for $1,000 to Al Kaufman, manager of the Famous Player Lasky studio, as a gift to the work- crew which sisted in king en's first film, “Broadway Jones." Mr. Kaufman lost the check, Mr. Cohan sent another, however, | just in time to prevent the complete | annihilation of Mr. Kaufman by satd working crew Gossip. Orlob, having composed numbers for "The Masked is now working on a new ort musical show Nat Royster will retire from the Nanagement of “The Brat” Saturday » look after the Lyric Laght Opera ‘ompany, which ts to open at the Vrovidence Opera House May 21, John Osborne Clemson has been en- xuged for the role of Sir John Hawk- burst in “The Highwayman,” whicb the Messrs. Shubert will revive. ‘he friends of Harry Thompson, known in vaudeville as The Mayor ot ery, will tender him a benefit evening at the B, E. D. Turn Harold ‘lark Ress and Harry W. Reiners Dreereseerereeeveeeeeeeeney What, When and ‘'S'MATTER, PoP Yn Be Come Quic THere FIGHTING WI ae & MINUTE QurRe— HELP > Yoeur’ MILLER! , [Id A Bor our TH de POrl: TTAM “? “ P | a To \ Lore SAY-HEN'! LeT Me Use Y' PHONE FoR wite Yur ig are to put out some tabloid shows this summer. They have opened of fices in the Putnam Building and arc preparing to burst forth. Gerald Griffin, the millonaire ac tor from Soho, Pa, is getting ready to retire to his country estates in Maine for @ summer siesta, Laura Hope Creway has been ee gaged by Selwyn & Co. to create the leading role in Owen Davis's new comedy: “Her Dearest — Friend which will be produced in Atlantic City, May 21. H. T. Parker, dramatic critte of the Boston Transcript, and Kdward Cros. by, who holds a like position on the Boston Post, have made trips to New York to review “The Knife.” “The Passing Show of 1917," which will open tonight at the Winter - don, Is sald to be the most tlous production ever staged at the big Fiftieth Street Theatre ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES, J. H. J.—Edith Hallor succeeded Hazel Dawn, Hayes—The Vim addreas ts No, 826 Lexington Avenue. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. How to Plant 16-PAGE ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF THE EVENING WORLD HOME GARDEN LEAGUE FREE TO EVENING WORLD READERS FOR COUPON PRINTED BELOW. THIS COUPON ENTITLES Sige your came on sbove line.) To One Garden Handbook. 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NE, two, three, fo’, Here do we “ce «0 Up to the lana of the frozen snow” sang Bombus as Bob and Bess ap- proached, He smiled rogutshly and challenged them to fathom where they were bound for, “It 1s the most out-door land on earth, In fact there 1s no in- iT w Joor for hundreds of miles about.” “No houses, tents or huts?” asked Bess. | “A few huts," confessed the Pro- fessor, “White huts in which brown people live, “Esquimaux?” exclaimed Bob, | “Esquimaux!" said Bombus, and playfully tapped each kiddie with his staff, Thetr clothes became furs. The ground froze beneath their feet and all things were frosted with new-lald snow that sparkled in the sup. When they became accustomed to the glare Bob and Bess noticed that ne of the moving along at quite @ pace toward a small brown epot away off. It was @ big 1,600-pound Polar Bear, intent Upon dining upon the small ‘rown a), This he did, and it was not without relief that the children then sow him dive overboard and make for a rock where other seals basked in the m Here luck was not so good, Mr, Doar'a white cont, which ta of great advent to him on snow and ico | because his prey and his buntere Geunguien alike are unable te many white mounds was! orland 2 Copyright, 1017, by the Prew Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World) | AS A BIG POLAR BEARI | gives ments, With alarming cries the seals, at first sight of the bear disappeared and escaped. Bess was shivering from fright and | cold. “You may y here if you like, Bob, but I am going home, To read| about Polar Bears will do me quite as| well.” Bess waked, wondering why Mrs. Polar Bear wae not at the side of her spouse, Birds seemed always to be together, she reasoned The first thing that she saw upon jopening the natural history book to | \"Polar Bears” was: “The female hibernates but the male may be seen abroad at all seasons,” “Bo she was in sleepy land!” “A good place too,” said Bess, and started out on that road herself. Buggested by Father Soatillo, age thirteen, 822 East One Hundred and Fourteenth Street, City, "hay uation bird rapt, tect, thon eres ro) avers m, ar ‘9 te oti eNotes 4, How, New York him away in other environ-| N RREAs AAA RARER ARREARS HOW TO JOIN THE CLUB AND} fn nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne 3 Cousin Eleanor’s OBTAIN YOUR PIN. 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Office, Annex, Ne. 13 Frankfort Street, No. 1393 Broad- The Violets. ow in the cool moss beds bod thelr pretty heada, “we're happy after our long nature because she knows the grass around us, {t is so eweot and ear the little frogs craking in the | io One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street. Bronx Office, No, 410 East One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street. @, 317 Fulten the bees around us gathering bona | the flowers dest of all we like ie the romy wuneet Gigs cn awesty staging hls then ws CS Tike to rest) We nod our pretty heads and fall asleep io the Brooklyn Office, tee Ei ee St ett St ori We Imoy thet nonght gpa farm vw, we are shel | tee ore ety eee wee RD BAVRR® LTO, Made of felt in Klub colors, blue and gold, errr apaaneanoenmeartel HOW KLUB MEMBERS CAN Ellabelle Mae Doolittle By Bide Dudley | ara from a window in a other evening came, in the tones | of @ maiden, the following: Happy, very bappy am 1; | Happy, hapyy, happy, yee, indeed No thought of sorrow oF sighs, Or broken hearts or greed! Oscar Ipple, manager of “The Out- landish Girla,” @ musical comedy playing Delhi that night, happened along. He heard the ong and stopped. He was struck by the phi- losophy contained in the lyric. At that moment Willie Prebble, soda dis- penser in Keeney’e drug store, came by. “Whose voice is that?” asked Mr, Ipple. “Ellabelle Mae Doolittle's,” sponded Willie. “I am charmed,” said the theatrical man, “Aw, you are not!” Wille replied re- big frame house in Dethi the | Povlitie to Then, seeing Mr. Ipple was in earnest, |the youth dropped his scoffin asked sincerely: “Do you m “I do." replied the othe girl {8 a genius. I'd Ike to eng: her to write my next season's musical | comedy. | “I can fix tt," said Wille, | He Lounded up the front steps of the Doolittle home and rang the bell Miss Doolittle appeared and Willie quickly explained bis mission. And so they met. Miss Doolittle invited Mr, [pple into an hat the parlor. He told her the plot of hig contemplated musical play and| asked her opinion of it, | "It ig indeed quaint,” replied the |poetess. Then, at the visitor's re- |quest, she sang the “Happy song clear through, The lyric, written by the poetess in ten tainutes, she vows, follows: mapoy Labe. My. sigtor’s chill, Teemey _ Ricketn pabisckartied tiie lady "herr door. canse one of our southtu! a Sratctied har But Jota tl be ey late wit ed, glad ye Troubl 4 PY aac Lda Mr, Ipple was so tmpressed with | business, dad Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), the song that be Invited Miss 1 the members of 1 the ecenes at the suse that night apd r them. She accepted and at 8 o'clock was admitted by the ige-door tgnder, Mr. Ipnie greeted y and then summoning 4 of the company on the his company ata with the curtain down, be or dered them to listen while the noted poctess sang softly, her ‘Happy’ song. When it was finished he told the company that the poetess was ty £2, werk {mmediately upon the yrica 0 Ln geG ie next Tople “It ts to be called ‘Drink, Women and the Gold Cure!" he sald, “The plot Will centre in the life of « sweet ittle hoochie dan who lost her way Ina great city, I would!—= But Miss Doolitile interrupted, @he was inspired. Holding up one hand she sald “In the hat, «pity 0 weal Poor ttle gtrl t nd pretty The members of the compan: ap- plauded with great gusto, peor All were pleased. _— EARNING HIS KEEP, HY don't you get rid of that dog, son? He 1s useless, and has no spirit.” “He's a big help to me in the funk Comes home nearly every day with a kettle tied to Ix tall."—Loutsville Coarter-Journah “ — oI GORDON-24 in. COLLAR TOPS AND BANDS ARE CURVE Cor | TO FIT THE SHOULDERS, 2 for 300 \ CLUETT, PEABODY 6. times such growth in 1014, and the cent. in 1015, = 4 |