The evening world. Newspaper, May 19, 1917, Page 10

|gaated, but he revenged himself by inaking _and Players By BIDE DUDLEY HERE'S an enterprising cate Bropristor in West Forty- ighth Street. Having decided he would have another grand opening at le haven for homeless coin, he sat down to think of a way to induce a cfowd of spenders to attend. After fue Geliberation he decided that one Way to get a lot of men to drop in would be to entice the Friars, whose) club isn't far from his cafe. Bo this fame thoughtful fellow drops in at the Friars’ Club and asks if Simon) Skewobble is there, se “Step in the waiting toom and wo'll gays the attendant. . F. goes the cafe man. ad been informed, be mail boxes each bear- ing the name of a Friar, These names he copies in his note book and when the attendant Mr. Skewobblo isn’t in-out he The next day nore or less; receive nice litt tes! from Masie saying she couldn't meet them as Tequested, but asking if they will kindly drop in that mignt at the So- and-So cafe, the same being Mr. Smoothman’s place. They will, at least some Will, arid as a resull, pos- wibly twenty good Friars plant pon- sibly ‘fifty: good dollars in the cafe's cash reg.ster, while glancing sideways uboat the rouln for Maste, BY WAY OF DIVERSION. | The dandelion in the spring te al- ways such @ pretty thing, and yet a weed we call it. We praise the pansy | and the rest, but call the dandelion : “and viciously we maul it, We! cull Tt up and etill ‘twill grow, no} matter how we dig and hve and snarl and get abusive. The reason why it haa no fame, no human friend or bonered name, is that it's not exciu- wive. How many people we all know who tell us, as their tale of woe, they're not appreciated! While oth. | ors, With the qreateat case, get almost | anything they please and oft are) sought and feted. The first I liken to the weed, the dandelion, and their need !s someone over twenty to tell them they're promiscuous. You aget | my> meaning, don't you, Gus? ‘Too | miuch ia more than plenty. LEASES THEATRE SITE. Sol Bloom has wcquited a lease on an $400,000 pict of ground adjoining the Lyric Theatre, and will build theatre on i. The ornare Stree. wixty: | t me it ‘ eTRRING Loney. Loney Py when, o0e of Sis jen crowd, Loney injected some of his choloest rhetoric into the address and finished with this question: “What do you say, men?" “@poech!" yelled the friend. Loney. Was considerably fabber- anotber address on the same pot. — ROYSTER HAS A GOOD ONE. Nat Royster has taken an ex ‘(.onally fine musical ‘stock company to Providence for a at the Providence Op % will open Monday evening with “The Virefly.” Florence Webber {s the prima donna and Frank Moulan the vomedian, A BENEFIT PARADE. At lg announced that a street parade will be held to-morrow nlgit prior io the Marine Corps benefit «\ ‘he Hippodrome. Headed by Dudiey Field Malone, the American Junior Naval Vewdrves will act as honorary escort for @ detachment of marines and the ctor and stars who will participate in the programme. The marchers will ssemble at Fifth Avenue and Fifty- uinth Street and proceed down tho avenue to Forty-second Street. They then turn west to Sixth Avenue ud go to the Hippodrome. | Gi P. | J. 3. Ohubert. has returoed from CBlcago, where he opened “The Show | FIND You Reauty SOMETIM' “S'MATTER, POP! WELL “IM GLAD “To = Mt STHINK OF _M' al Nice MAN I THinte You ouscHT To Be A PResidEenT "O'rack! DREAMED ABOUT You LACT NIGHT OLD GRINDSTONE GEORGE Cony taht. WT, Prams Publishing Co iN ¥ Weaning World) SL Gve88 “wad THT RARE-BIT” You ATE! IT OuGHTtA Be WoRTH A DIME SAY lov ovuGHTA BRA PRESIDENT AN’ WoT DID You SAY “To en my first film will be “Barbary Sheep.” Marion J. Mooney will aing the for- gotten songs as well as the songs of | to-day at the Biltmore Monday night. | Miss Mooney is the possessor of a| fine soprano voice Elsie Janis te et Eagar Sel- | wyn from Cotton Plant, Miss. yes terday that she would be at the Hip- | podrome Sunday night to participate | in the Marine Corps benefit The “Most Popular Actress” con- test in causing much Interest at the | of Wonders.” Harry Alward has gone company manager of “T orang” on tte Coast trip. “Potash & Perlmutter in Society” | ite frat Pacific Coast tour , opening in Grand Raplds, Mieb. ‘Tho: Mesars. Shubert will present | George Hansell in the featured role | of & new comedy next season. He's | in "Love o' Mike.” Conroy and Le Maire, after eighteen | months with "A World of Pleasure,” | have returned to New York. They | will appear to-morrow night at the Winter Garden, Elsie Ferguso in “Shirley Kay motion picture acting next has closed her tour "and will begin her voek. Her [ G20.0.0 NEEDED A MOVIE CAMERA. | RAISING America's growth, P James J, Hill ead: “America’s growth almost robs | Tin Can story of its hyperbole. | tendertoot visiting the boom town of Tin Can said to the Mayor: “"Why don't you get out literature avout this locality? Why don't you| get out booklets, Wustrated with off. | cial photographs? Is it possible you! haven't ever had the town photo- hed 7 Stranger, said the Mayor. ‘Tin 880 Kosh-almighty fast "t no camera’ quick | €nough to snap her.’ "—Washington Star. pL RES Eee ON THE JOB. HEY were dining off fow! in a T: restaurant. “You see,” he ex- plained, as he showed her the wishbone, “you take hold here, Then we must both. make a wish and pull, and when It breaks the one who has the biggest part of it will have bis! splendid your potatoes are this or h granted.” taught 20 lennon! : be Tt CHULATRNKES wl TEE Wi sak Td Nocuinel se tbe, | mit.0 Piles Actors’ Fair, It looked this morning as though first honors would go to elther Edna Wallace Hopper or Marion Davies, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. ‘The amalier the shoe the larger the corn FOOLISHMENT. Tiere was an old Mdy nomet Hie Winwe FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “What does a billland ball do whea {t stops rolling “1 give it up “It looks round,”’ But, I don't know what to wish " whe protested, “Oh, you can think of something,” | he aid “No, I think of « “Well, Yes.” “Weil, ther with the old rupted with have me al silk | HER OBJECTION, RS. HIGGINS was an incurable | grumbler, She grumbled at} everything and everyone, But at last the vicar thought he had found something about which » could make no complaint; the old lady's was certainly the ound you must pleased with a mmile, as he met her in the street Everyone's say The old lady wlared at him ered hey've hot so poor, But where's the bad ones for the pig London ! Answers. J Get out oF HERE! You MAKE ALToGe THER “To MUCH NOISES 300 varos! Taht, WT, Prese Pobliming Ce (N. Y. Brening Werld ) Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley Coppright, 1017, by the Press P hing Co, (The New York ‘Evening Wortd), “ce ID you ever get so interested | one boneh like you eat it? in a novel that you just} “He Just gives me a sreer couldn't hardly put it down | fet the By gol a ieee Ke wh to attend to your dally | don’t let me get to right winks Regi. @: ed Lucile, the waitress, |nald 1s drawing his sword to 4 ft endly patron took a seat at | ire Wie By ane then ask me the lunch counter. | soup. im 1s coftee 6e eyiter “Yes, I often get deeply interested| “ ‘Say; I says, ‘don tn fiction,” he repli: pe mission on i. ‘ i exow, | #8 tO pester me, bi ‘Me, t she want on, “Now, | 1m a” mean baby. Dy take last ! Between victims I} offee or soup? was pursuing ‘Lillian’s Lovers,’ aad | tfee, of course!’ QD 100 YARDS peenoan NOW WE CAN “TaLk! | Jumping ny job so ay to get time) sousing’ h I got so interested that I felt ke! “‘fhen it's coffee, comes cute me, He grunts and goes nis toust in the Save, Meee enough to see which lover was|but it's a pretty sight f j¢-vmed to be the falr-haired boy, | MY book and Reginald’ und: Veen actthae wae? sword and squares off for @ heres r Y combat with the rival, “Me, toot Weill, one guy's name is} CTSs bats, Sparks begin to fly and Reginald, and I like bim cai |juat then here comes Lilian se °|for them to cut tolls Lillian he'll love her in spite of | between. them ‘at ‘bing! anuenes t ir her rich father’s intricacies, A per. | Do0b takes a seat at the counter and son always likes that sort of a bug, I have to relapse again,” + even though you know Lillian's going <Another interruption, eh? to be shaking up the old furnace! interest one More doob to thing and swabbing the dishes within | Lucile. thought o manet@ & week af.er her convivial bliss be-| she continued with eet gins. Likewise, you know, she's soon | was you, Sure, ewe srin, going to be wondering how long her cllect? You vet rea eee Prince Errant intends to bang over | at to-day.” ” °°t MSht where you're Clancy's bar on the corner, “Well, just as Reginald had pushed a rival in the eye and was preparing to lay siege on Lillian's doorstep, Rival Number 2 appears behind him and smashed him with a back-hand | solid plexus, It looks like a stift ‘pattle’s due, I'm all on the que vide with in And then, of course, a y across the room gets angry | 8 nubbins, | |. “‘Hey!' he calls. ‘Is this the pub- | |le brary or a restaurant?’ | |. “‘I' look it up in the dictionary | tell him. | ‘Some says It is and some | says it ain't, “You see, I was merely trying to }sic a can onto his goat, and I cer- | tainly did “"T want my eggs,’ he says. “Well, retain thyself!" I says, ‘You INE trial has con- vinced thousands of women that the use of VAN’S NORUB know Rome wasn't built by a Dago,’ ™ {1 was parsifrazing a little on the old insures cleaner clothes in |saying, but he, being ignorant of| half th . |grammar, didn't get me. Of course, & he time — and no + I fetch him the eggs and then I open rubbing i i | the book again. Reginald has just y sighs required, | turned ‘My hated rival!* our de: | when ti ares up again, 5c & canter sells it, petro ap packages. 1, 20h, but I'm 6 Listen, ‘why don’t you order your stuff all in Van Zile Co. Mirs, West Hoboken, N. J,