The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1917, Page 12

_ [[xcemre exce | Evening World Daily Magazine 4 ' oe i f Tee *. About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY closing of numerous produc- tions now playli in the Broadway district. To-night “The Century Giri" will call it a season and close up shop, and Robert Man- tell will leave the Forty-fourth Street. ‘To-morrow night the Negro Players ‘will forsake the Garrick, bound store- houseward. Next Saturday night ‘will see the end, for this season at feast, of “The Wanderer,” at the Manhattan; “The Fugitiv with Hmily Stevens starred, at the Thir- ty-ninth Street: “Come Out of the Kitehen,” Ruth Chatter .ons starring Veblcle, at the Geurge M. Coban; "The Big Show,” at the Hippodrome; “a Kies for Cinderella,” ip which aude Adams is starring at the Em- pire; “The Very Minute,” Arnold Daly's play, at the Belasco, and sir Jiccbert Tree's season at the Now Amsterdam, Noarly all of the afore- mentioned attractions have enjoyed successful runs, Just why #0 many ere to close at once is unexplained, Dut It is probably due to the fact that there are numerous new productions waiting to open on Broadway for * spring engagoments. CAPRICIOUS AMELIA! Philip B. Dooner, our West Ninety- seventh Street correspondent, dropped Te next eight days will eee the ‘in the Rive: le Theatr ath evening and was captivat vy we work oi Amelia Stone, of Stone and Lis, whom he saw act out. When reached his home he doped out the while, you ger you admit It's @ tact | caphivious maser, | vmstat hit for your set, | od your capricious, sane 4s 8 groat_color scheme, | ‘detail that 1 know, ha auryriee ‘eet, , ware ve That I’ wes pot a ie Soe "Polliee” an.» BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Silas MoGuggin, in Pee “Be quiet, now fellers, IT just want to time L'a scatter Your act’ was Td rig up a skiff that was painted dark green to look like the water and thus be unseen, and then in the bot- vai gun and pick off moon U vig oe — ev" oe. But I'm far too busy just now e work. m raising some chick@hs— @ job I can't shirk. But maybe next fall, when my work is all bye y 3 t Ow, &o after U boats and bring in “Hush, Silas! Ye Grandpa McGee. en port of my plan? Well, you ain't got the brain of a man, You don't, understand | what it Is to be brave. I'm going out now, so get busy and rave.” Old Bilas went out with a sneer for McGee. | Baid Grandpa: ‘® awful how 8i| picks on me.” Jed Peeweeple grinned and replied: “Hush yer nolad. I reckon he thinks yer a U boat, Bh, boys" “THE TIGER ROSE.” David Px iasco will produce a play cailed “Th. Tiger Rose” at the Apollo Vneatre, A > City, on May 3. Lenore Ulrich will head the cast, 1t/ ds @ etory of the Northwest, written by Mr. Belasco and Willard Mack. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. vos. B. “Dance and: Grow Thin" She is morried, but slorled d'vorce or separation proceed- ingw, I believe. Henson—To be a sereen actor one usually begins as an “extra.” Apply at the studios, Gossip. | Guy Stendine, now to London tn the army, is to returo to this country for a brief stay soon, Walter 8. Duggan and Joe De Milt, Cohan & Harris company managers, are again to be seen on Broadway. rthur Cunningham has been en- gaged by F, C, Whitney for the role of G Allen in “When Johnny Comes | Marching Home.” ‘A. Baldwin Sloane ts completing a uusical piece called “Dew Drop Inn.” Robert Warwick, picture star, is to return to the legitimate stage in an A HM. Woods production next fall, “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals,” one of the Barrie plays, which will be produced by the Frohman company at the Empire May 7, was staged re- cently at the New Theatre, London, | by Dion Boucicault. | ‘The sixty members of the Hippo- | ALL DOUBLED UP. | drome ballet class will receive their has}, | “'S'MATTER, POP?” Nails Could Be Driven Into Many a Head That We Know! ATs HE GOING “Ter THiTA KITTRR pas, al wales FRLLAH WANTS To NAIL “Borrow A Hammer ? AND A NAIL HAMMER THE NAIL INTO +41TH Does Head dhs ONE BAR IS Loose “THAT BLARNEY “DONT Go With “HS OLE |, Bind Gee PIM No DUDGE” OR NUTHIN'— Bur wes A PLAIN MAN GeT Me? DAWGONE RIGHT— AN' ONE OF “TH’ PLAINESY I EveR @een Yezza} ‘ zy : NOW HERES A DIME AN' REMEMBER I AINT Givin’ (7,1 You FoR, “CHARITYS SAKE” BUT MERELY ‘CAUSE AT PLEASES Me! diplomas at the matinee of "The Big Show" next Saturday ra, Shubert will produce n Wilmington, Del,, May ded for Broadway con- Waitress I WISH PEOPLE WQULD MIND “THEIR OWN BUSINESS AND STOP KIDDING ME ABOUT BEING FAT! AS LONG AS 1M SATISFIED WITH MY OWN SHAPE \ “THEY OUGHT TO LET ME — By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1947, by the Pree Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World) “ HAVEN'T got much use for| going to eat? Beans? people who talk about them- A nit Beane ue says. ‘Got selves personally im public, isten, squire: 1 whose ‘at lm sald Luctie, the waitress, the|*You don't need a tonic. What you friendly patron took a seat at the|need is a job in a drug store where lunch counter. you can dip into all‘the cures and “You don't ike to hear self-pratse, |°2J9Y Yourself unlimited. Now, if you, eh?” was his comment. don't tell me what you're going tf “Not that!" she replied. “I mean eat I'm going to quit you. I only dropped in on you to make a@ brief people who lecture too much on their | Pers-nal effects and defects. I had sumption. KdWin T. Emery has been engaged as general stage director for John Cort’s attractions. WELL MAC OLD SCOUT, I'M GOING 7% ENLIST! NOW START KIDDING ME ABOUT MY SHAPE. LIKE YOU ALWAYS DO- ~ GO oN Now-- Say (Tl! FOOLISHMENT. e affront," He'd way: “That's an Now, what do you think of MORE FOOLISHMENT (By Elmon Gillette.) the yap? call.” “Coffee and doughnuts!’ and bing Right away" be squirm |ike as if he’ I see he's about to 4 his personalities, so I “Please don't about your ache genteo! and besides w sympathy to-: \ A “That finishes him. He basn't got another peep to make all the time he’s wrastling with the sinkers.” “You don’t like to hoar of ailments, eh?’ Serniys “I should y not,” Then she added: * wlied Dr. Crouk Who colleotud @ ten-dollae bill, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “The police are guarding the Pubilc Library closely.” Just | begins to got a backache, more about him to it. say nothing more to wait on one to-day. He no sooner gets bs elbows on the counter than I'm right before him like an aparti- tion in the night, He looks up and hy “They found dynamite in the dic- tlonary there.” “Very good, sir!’ comes from little ‘You skidded into the right place. What will you and me fill ‘em with? We got some pretty reliable corned hash and—.' “'Nix!” he tells me, to go to @ dentist.’ said Lucile. "By the way, I got some sort of a pain in my’ left ‘I mean I got ‘ole of bis boot. The girl watched | PELL your name!” said the| ®m in alarm: | rr , = “Now whadaye t ? It started last night and has kept “Ss court clerk sharply. Whatever are you going to do? HONEST NED, 'M NOT KIDDING You ! he drops tne aye hink of that? Here aver since. Wait till I hand this ola \ | an, | She Ras Hinkle : e drops in obstentiously to cut in) bewhiskered victim his poison and lj) The witness Veran: “0, You needn't worry yourself YOU'RE MIRTY POUNDS OVERWEIGHT~ on the rich food supply and right) come back and tell you all about it.” T, I, double U, E, double L, replied the navvy, casually | i “THE LIMIT INTHE ARMY 15 190 POUNDS! away begins to talk of hie personal- " ordered the clerk; “begin exain!”* The witness replied: “O, double T, J, double U, E, double L, double U, \ double O"-——— testing the edge of his penknife with his thumb, “but the next time them there oats gets into my ear there’ going to be a harvest.”—Tid-Bits, oo ities, ‘Vell, I was mad, and I don't wet that way very often. “Look me over, Oswald!’ I says. ‘Do I resemble dentist presudeo? “"Not at alll’ he reverberates, ‘I was just contemplating about myself. “‘Very good; in fact, excellent!* NOT ABASHED. iti that this mi pt of court!" at is your name?” “Your honor!” roared the clerk. “I be committed for whe asked the Judge. “My name, your honor, or Wood, and I spell it 0, double 5 double U, E, do L, double U, double QO, D.”--Ladies’ Home Journal —_——— GETTING RIPE. HE scene is laid on the top of an omnibus. The girl seated nex! te the rough workingman had ® bunch Of wheat in her hat which, _ protruding from the side nearest the man, persistently tickled his ear, At fast be vould endure it no longer, and, fh 2 a penknife out of his pocket, to sharpen iit upon the ‘ vell Ha HE “At-up"” drama was in full swing, when the {mpassioned rantings of Theophilus Jones, he seedy hero, were interrupted by the bootngs of a rude urchin In the gallery This was an outrage that could not be allowed to go unbrebuked, even tn the midst of a tragedy, Pausing in his speech, and ad vancing to the oll ps, Theo} addressed his audiences Ladle una gentlemen,” he hissed, “five yeu: ; T lost a monkey, and it hee tarsea up here to-night in the gallery.” The applause that gre eted this bril- Mant remark had hardly died away when the voice of the emall be 0 on the alr. me Ry: ra “What did you do with the s it asked, blandly.—vid-Bita, e*?” Conrright. 1011, Pree Publishing Op (6. ¥. Rvening World) I says. ‘Now, let's strolt along the food Jane and grab off something quick. There's other victims present waiting for the attention of the little lady in white,’ “He seoms like as if he don't hear me, ‘Gee!’ he says, shaking hie head. ‘I got a ear-ache,’ “Well, brother, can you imagine me? There I am waiting like a mod- ern patient Jano of Arch and he goes right on rambling about physic aches and pains. I force grin. * ‘Begging pardon!’ comes from ‘but would you mind being more plisfit, Which ear is doing the ache thing? You know, we can't wait in here unless we know all about the un- fortunates who drift in, Come on, now-tell the lady which ear,’ “Naturally be gets slightly peevish., ‘What's the big idea?’ he asks, “‘Nothing,’ kareply, ‘only whatcha N Keep Baby Healthy! Clothes washed with VAN’S NORUB will not irritate or rough- en their delicate skin,