The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1917, Page 22

About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY HE NEW NIPPON,” a play bY Colgate Baker, of the New York Review, is to be produced by Oliver Morosco in Los Angeles this summer, and will later be given @ New York hearing. It is Mr, Baker's fy) “ive: and his many friends are glad J he has “landed.” The play, according P to the author, deals with the geisha question, whatever that may be. Mr Morosco has great faith in it and will give it an srate production and the best cas theatrical pro- fession can a Mr, Baker was born in Japan and lived there many years. Therefore, we may expect in “The New on” some electricity direct from the battery. TO STAR WILTON LACKAYE. | The Messrs. Shubert announce they will present Wilton Lackaye In a new play by Abraham Schomer, entitied fhe inner Man,” for a spring tour) ncipal Kastern cities, Late in i duction will be house In this! city, Mr. Lackaye Ww by Harry Mes' Maud Harry Dave Ray KR t . Edward is directing This is the " 0 “Today,” which was wr ly in Yiddish, and ad English stage by George Broadhurst, | VION AS AN ACTOR. Charley Vion, advance agent Max Figman in ‘The Subst was in Pittsburgh when the ed at the Duquesne, a an actor of him, It Was y to have a man to appea tor and deliver one line, is the thirty-fourth case to- ame and he strode onto the stag He was all right until somebody in the audience coughed. Then he forgot | where he was. Finally h ‘ed he had something to say and spoke! up. “his, said Charley, “Is tho thirty. ! fourth day"—— He hesitated. “This,” | he said again, “is tho thirty-fourth ears woo OLD GRINDSTONE GEORGE day"—— He just couldn't remember ything more wbout that line. Edg- over to the door he braced him- and said; “This is the thirty-fourth day of the month," And out he went. HENRY'S PHILOSOPHY. Jeff Nutt, the comedian, overheard « conversation between two negroes on Broadway this morning that in- terested him, “Ah wisht Ah had @ million dol- lahs,” said one. ‘A million dollahs ain't no good to responded the other, 4 tan,” "Why not?” Ef he's old he kain’t get no fun out ef it; an’ ef he's young de Gov- ment ‘ull git him an’ send him to wah to git shot. As fo’ me, Ah don’t want no money.” “Henry,” mused the .other, “yoh bho’ am some philosophos.” THEY WANTED MORE. A ticket which a woman had just bought at the Rialto’s box office blew out of her hand yesterday and went through an iron grating into a sub- way excavation. 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