The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1917, Page 12

| [__comre race About Plays -and Players By BIDE DUDLEY HENRY MILLER has assembled fn excellent company to take to California with him for his mammer season. Among the ‘players who will make the trip are Julia Dean, Cyril Keightley, Frank Byrne, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, Bertram Har- tigon, Luctile Watson, James Gallo- way and Pogsy Dale, The start West will be made to-morrow, The Ruth Chatterton “Come Out of the Kitoh- en” troupe will go along on the same train with the Miller company. EDESON TO TOUR. Robert Edeson, now in “The Knife,” will again go on tour next fall in “His Brother's Keeper,” in which he ap- peared last winter in the South, Broadway will be his objective point. RELKIN KEEPING BUSY. Edwin A. Relkin, who manages Jewish actors and Past Side The- atres, ie known as the Yiddish Kiaw- langer-Shubert. He 1s now arrang- ing tours for Jacob P. Adler, Bessie Thomashefsky, Max Gabel and Jen- nie Goldstein, Mme, Kenny Lipzin, David Kessler, Malvina Lobel and the Prager-Juveller company. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. When mother was a little girl she Never disobeyed. Sho says she was a quiet child; in fact, a model maid At school she studied all the time and headed ev'ry class, while children who disliked to work would find tt hard to pass. She says she never was unkind and never told a lle, nor did she ask her mother for a second pieoe of pie. And when an older per- son smiled and complimented her, respectfully she's bow and say: "I thank you, ma‘am!" (or “sir.") But once our grandma came to town to At dinner time I her say to mother with a land, Minerva! Recollect mi stole the jam?” But kK her head and sald; “I ave some bam.” visit us awhile, heard think Tl RHYMES AND MORE RHYMES. Wonderful rhymes have been re- ceived by the writer of this depart- ment from Chrystal Brown, concert tenor, No, 3% Bast Twenty-ninth Street; Willie Newman, the hali-pint manager of the Empire Theatre; Tad, the Cohan & Harris office boy with the pep; W. F. Ni . who deals in vutter, exgs and cheese in New Haven, and Jack Rosenthal, the boy poet- actor. Mr. Brown, who is really a g00d vocalist, slips us this: ‘Within the train the maiden mt, She wore 's great big ploure bat Along with sions and dress and coat, he ‘scomed to. get hia goat % the tan fist by her side, her his twide, mtribution comes danger- In Tad's ously near being a love poem, spite of the fact that he wrote the rhyme, Tad ix an office boy who can office as well as any office boy in New York. Sings Tad: fa, & certain actress queen. Muy to my bean, 4 either heen, bet ween, inset, 1 wweet, y you al- hurrying nto the etry like an expert Te contribution and praise him, pe praise him! He's “iyst fought a new car, old dass, noon, May 23, The sketch has never been seen in America, William Cary Dunean, who col laborated with Rida Johnson Young putions -|has a new play which may be seen as well, but it's probably Jus | in New York next fall Vaudeville treated Irwin pret. GOSSIP. ty well this spring, so she went and Iva Har in “Mary's Ankle" and shipped her to the for A. H, t take down | Thousand Islands, where Miss Irwin Listen, raises milk and butter, oats with a r M th ‘ortmanteau Pia es gaged for a role ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. in Byes of Youth.” J, S—Charles Klein wrote “The Bianca Saroya of “The Highway- | Music Mast man," has signed to sing in Shut M. BV ever heard of a play She was a Night operas under a thr called “Annie Rooney. tract. song. Hughes, now:in “The Fugt- aes tive.” in prepariig for a dip Into A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Cer ae oe ay Ye Spe rything ts high in Connecticut e. Oithe Evie play, “LAlac Time.” wit} |Fven the moon has been up lately, remove from the Eitinge to the Harris at the end of next week for an tn definite engagement | f “Patsy's Schoo pend the rt Danbury, Conr c eat plenty of keeps a FOOLISHMENT. t will wtart the fret"? Jo Hood: on @ farm 1 says she expects t honey as the farme The Henderson I rent Leon H King Who Had FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “Pop, what's a press gag?” An alleged Joke in the Plays and rs Column, Obadiah,” Thanks, pop!" TAKING CARE OF HIM, |, “If you was any good they wouldn't ‘on of our local politictans (he bas uu ty y t : ‘aes ‘ ts this way. You see, I pute the inalate that he ts a sta 1) spots on the dominos, and to-day was @ guest of honor 4\ they're making double’ blanks.""-—Am- gathering the other night, and ¥ erican Boy on the subject of economy tn Gov —<——— ment quoted the following conversa A HARD CREDITOR. tion between @ pay roll patriot and a ANY a Southern darky's mind ts United States Senator stored with bits of philosophy “Senator, youl promised me @ job," that are frequently as true as Sut there ar job they are quaint. Here is an tnetance |. “One wintry day,” says a Washing- ‘ ton man, “I met an old darky in of jobs, and you can get @ place on| {#84 plodding along. ‘The cold wind beat through | tat many holes in his that.""—Boston Trave ston Traveler bie Yet despite HIS DEPARTMENT CLOSED. | \\ P ETE had seci.red a summer job in| the domino factory, of which he | had boasted to all the other| *** boys in his block. One Monday after- noon he was noticed in his back yard “Yah, Pete's lost his Job," camo the| ery from his friends. why didn't you na Warm coat in- on” said the old man, 1 asks my back for Then patting his | gravely, ‘when cvedst , Buh, dis heah al- “Lost my job, nothin’! I'm just laid| waye off temporary.” Herald onal lite ARE NL ANE 8 oH oe OLD GRINDSTONE GEORGE I Tord +fim PoP WuTt GONNA GIVE Me A NICHEL, IF T' Wound BE A GOoDd Boy ToDAY PMR. ghee Re age A‘SYoKER’ EH? q TDAWGONIT How ALWANS ENVIED You Ove.” Sea DoGe™'T MYST PE WoNDERFUL To GAZE ON “TH! BROAD EXPANGE OF “TH OCEAN AN’ BREATH IN “TH! GALT AIR f WELL Guess You OUGHTA MAKE A G DANITOR: pe You ARE, STRICTLY oe SOBER ? AT six AM, IM SO SLEEPY ¢ at [tas 1S AWFUL GETTING | BuT IF fm CALLED To THE COLORS ] WANT To BE IN FINE PRYSICAL . Nie CONDITION § s- ij FLABBY MUSCLES WOULDN T Go IN \see ARMY ! TE TNE! AS ——\ LE FEEL MUCH BETTER Ne THIS Rs WHETHER 'M CALLEg OR NOT FoR ‘ - \ 1 FEEL ALL “OF SORTS “THIS MORNING. 1 THINK J HAVE “THE GRIPPE 1 ACHE So! Fe our & } 1 DONT SEEM To HAVE ANY PEP. Jy tink it's THe Gripre bec - | MY BONES ACHE ALL OVER AND é | While opinion that more vegetables should | Copyright, 1917, Prose Punts AN’ SHAVE, BUCH A NICE KIND FACE! By HE Women's I of Delhi met ‘Thursday noon to discuss the matter planting gardens with edible tables instead of flowers this yeur, all the of thy after of vex ladies were be raised, some were opposed to the |idea of giving up flowers entirely Mrs, Elisha O, Pertle, the Promptress, | was in the chair, “Ladies,” she said, “I will have to confess that I'm an advocate of vege- tables, To my way of thinking, one | Potato !s worth half a dozen pansies and a few geraniums. But I am open to conviction. What have you to say?" Mrs. Cutey Boggs arose, “I, too, value the potato highly,” she sald. “But there is another nigger in the woodpile, Suppose you were sick, Madame Promptress! Would you want the vase on the table in your room filled with potatoes or with pansies?” “Pansies, I presume,” said Promp tress Pertle. “Oh, my! voice coming from the third row. It was Mrs, Skeoter O'Brien speaking. “I favor potatoes," she went on, “Suppose you were sick! Could you eat pansies? I say no, and I defy the renunciation of my creed.” Mrs. Boggs was on her feet in an instant. “It is no wonder the lady talks like that," she said. “I have no doubt but what she has raised a little Jag of ‘pertaties' each year, How's your goat, Mrs. O'Brien?” “It's all right,” came the reply. “It's playing with yours, which I just got.” “Stop, ladies of the Women's Bet- terment League!" commanded Promptress Pertle. "We'll have no lambasting by word of mouth in this organization,” “She hasn't got my goat,” Mrs. Boggs. “Oh, ye O'Brien, goatee, ‘too sald I have,” came from Mrs. ‘and he's a cute little Mrs, Boggs was there with another howdy-do, but was not permitted to Ellabelle M. Bide What jolly-rot!” said a|= (8. Y. Bvening World) ae Doolittle | Dudley 1) that moment a tall, ure dressed in creme de yeured on the stage. It was Mao Doolittle, the great Miss ,Doolittle held up one he commanded Lord Byron £ d over the assemblage s continued; “I 4 poem which will And then, in duicet tones, she read the following from her own pen ”~ b For we whe . And (ood ta ‘very ight” Do hot be riled By conte, Laat ye die—lest ye diet 1d, ‘Teonay Ricketts, 6 Oh et tects a al pallet, cy eden It settled the argument immediate. jly. 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