The evening world. Newspaper, May 24, 1917, Page 18

ee ee ee bout Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY RLES DILLINGHAM has ac- @: red the American rights to “General Post,” the current @ramatic success at the Haymarket Theatre, London, and will use tt to open the Globe Theatre's season next September, He is now engaging « cast, “General Post" was written by Harold Terry, who !s comparetively unknown as a playwright, It is a comedy setting forth the levelling in- | Guences of the war. ‘WORM MAKES A “FIND.” A. Toxen Worm heard Charles Moran, a sign painter, working over | the entrance to the Forty-fourth Street Theatre, singing yesterday. Result: He is to be in the cast of “The Beautiful Unknown.” He has @ fine tenor voice. A NEW TEAM. | Jack Norworth and Lillian Lorraine | have teamed up for a summer sea- gon in vaudeville, When they get | through with the tw ay they will} go into “Odds and Ln which will | open the new Norworth Theatre. Sam Shannon ts guiding their destinies $0 KATIE DID. Margaret Boland, understudy for the women in " he Right,” also plays the last act. She hi at the door.” 7 Katie, Yesterday afternoon Miss Bo- land could not go to the theatre for some reason or other and it became necessary for (get this name) P, kid- ward McCoy, the understudy for the assume the Katie role, Since Edward doesn't double Julian , they made the part that of « At the proper time P, Hd ame onto the stage and sald to M. Nelson: “Your auto is at the door,” Then Nelson went and did tt. “All right, Katie,” he said, | FUND OFFERS A PRIZE. An undertaker has given @ silver coffin to the Actors’ Fund. Danie! | Frohman announces that the first person who dies at the Fund's home | will win the prize. As yet, however, the competition isn't very keen. HIS FINGER SLIPPED. Francis EB. Reid, publicity man for the Charles Frohman Company, while tapping his typewriter Mon- day, accidentally let # finger slip and ag @ result gave the Broadway dis- trict @ distinct shock. An announce- ment from Mr, Reid said: “Charles Darnton will appear with Rithel Barrymore in J. M. Barrie's ‘The Twelve Pound Look’ at the Empire Theatre.” en we finally located Charles Darnton, dramatic critic of this news- paper, and demanded to know how long he had been under cover with his histrionic talents, he blushed and said he had never trod @ board in his life, and never intended to, Fearing he might be spoofing, we were about to call up the Sarge: Dramatic School and ask if he had veen atrend- ing on the quiet, when Mr. Reid no- tifled us to make it read “Charles Dalton.” BY WAY OF DIVERSION, I wonder who it is that makes the styles the women follow; who fills the hearts of men with aches, as in despair they wallow. I wonder if this person knows how much he adds to father’s woes, as day by day tho money goes and leaves the wallet hollow, 1 wonder if he couidn’t quit til living takes a tumble and let re- ouperate a bit our bank accounts so fumble. How fine ‘twould be if we nd these, be no year,” e’en change in styles ¢ though the fair ones grumble, If} Target.” Mary's dress is purple now next montb she'll have to buy one, This style inventor won't allow a girl these days to dye one, And so it 1 I wish that we could learn on whom the blame should be. I'd like te lead him te tree and, as for imots-—I'd tle oF GOSSIP. ‘The seats for the premiere of “The Follies” will not be auctioned this ear. "Mire. A. H. Woods will start on her | fourth Coast auto trip next Tuesday. Willie Solar, playing at the New Brighton, will'marry Jeasie Reynolds of “So Long, Letty,” next Sunday. After fifty-five years, more or lesa, | as an advance agent, Walter Mensen- ger is now a company manager In New York. He has “Joan the Wom- an. something, sir mes Spottswood, Harry Mestayer, Suzanne Willa and Maide! Turner Hee Your “COUsIN” AN’ iTS UP TH You! Tue “THROWN OUT ALL KINDS OF HINTB To HIM FoR “TH' LAST MONTH BUT T Guess HE FIGGERS t ON CAMPIN' HERE FoR LIFES Fiening World Daily Magazine : Though ‘Filled the Inner Hollow, the Taste Outlasts the Swallow! No THIR, I'm A Ce 5 ppg FILLED uP By Clifton Meek ‘Moral: Don’t Throw Out a Hint Unless You’re Sure It Can’t Rebound! By Bud Counihan mER-YES “SAKE Youve HAD ; a ae EY, Se LONG, ee Ko FOR TH TLL SEND HriL Bes SLIP Side serk lane . biti em 3 have been added to the cast of “The Six hundred crippled children from downtown institutions saw ‘When | Johnny Comes Marching Home" yes- terday afternoon. ‘They wero in charge of Mias Emma Frohman, | A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. As ® matter of war economy, @ Southport, Conn., man has begun smoking cheap tobacco, and his wife hates the Kaiser more than ever now. FOOLISHMENT. eNeetane fase yeitgutaings And a ttle, sallow Stuck hie tail wm the hae ‘This rhyme’ om really Warde, cent Bul still it eecum to make Good Foolishment. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. | Waiter—Ahem! Didn't you forget | er, a tip, sir? Cafe Patron—Oh, to be sure! Bet on the Glants to win the pennant, QUITE RIGHT. HE Old Timer looked up from| 7 his ricky and asked “You think that story on Bil) Sims is a good one, eh?" “Gond or bad, it's true." “Well, so ds this,” said the Old Timer, “and it happened down in) Texas by the Kio Gra I used to lve down that way for a while, anc in the villag 4 my presen tot was electe Wat he didn't He ilty or not guilty? asked th Ju *'Not guilty,’ answered the pris-| oner. | “*Phen what the deuce are you do ing here? demanded the Justice of the Peace, ‘Get out!!"—San Fran- elsco Chronicle, pectin el ; | OLD STUFF, 11% Some looked at the clo é; was half-pust 2 The “ Special” left at 3.06 have just time to change ané catch it. He ros door, Buddenly he started | Betore him stood the office boy. He| « my wife's been in that house, She ¢ t | (ptied at the bose, Thr later felt! hor aister'a trot vont! QUIET but ‘owful motorist | A tone a on by the side} | of a car thot was drawn up| | near the pavemen A man tn an- | t| other ca > aad passed the j up on ¢ and closed his| |,” vague qualms. The oMce boy —S—S—SVS-S=6X===$>*TlT—T——E>EEEE—E—EESEEEEEES SSS | ARE YOU ANYTHING LIKE JOE? YA-A~-AW! Loon AT THAT! QO YARDS AND (T's THE FIRST BALL swe HiT SINCE Last NovemMBER! Lucile the Waitress SOME DRIWE' MY oD “as FUNNY — AFTER THAT | (eee ___ By Bide Dudley Sere cer A OLua: DRWE. I THOUGHT V0 GO Goreriaht, 1917, Wy Ue Pree Pre WHEN IGET A CLUB =z) = ID you ever meet one of those It L did, it f lip of 7. FINE! “ y r meet one o , it was just a slip IN SAY HANDS! ALONG FINt ors oe tite cue ce gue. You know, one can't say MR itecalb) ote veneds hings exactly right while eating Hal ——" these delicious beans you serve ia anked Lucile, the waitress, of the here. But, as I was saying, 1 kill | | friendly patron this big polo bear after a hurd tight! — | “vrequently,” he replied. Here he points to his coco, “See tha “One come in here this morning.” ep,’ 1 says, she went on, “and the first tutng he| Bear,’ he saye, ooks like roiling-pin to me,’ & 5 to me is was I ever in Peru ‘Where they have all those dogs’ ape cll, father-in-law, that gets bigy ience gives us one con! e | “What dogs?’ he question marks. ‘ claw, Maud,’ and my an! “*You know, those dogs that fur- the whole Atale and oe tee ~ > nish the Peruvian bark.’ etude, ail excepting his mastioutat a “Quit yer kiddin'!’ he says. ‘When | of £006 — I was hunting in the wilds of Peru ben he gata ready to lene s I bad @ personal incounter with a| Pm Another, ‘Speaking on yp x ays, ‘did you ever aboot a “ ‘And you been at {t ever since,’ I What's that? he aske, dilate, wappolis animal is one thag| er been shot,’ I ea UO « 8 ’ wud , stopped him, eht* i n ty the Way to handle| el 4 i aid Luelle. “But, say,” shel » almp r —_ ‘amen — ad ieee! “Are you in the habit of going H I had @ peradventure with | nity, .t my grand 1 y ‘ around killing lions?’ I ask, ‘If so, meat one night myself died’ ye and [must atte If LsupPose (hi HAVE To DIG ‘ ta PUN ‘HOME you ouglit to go up in the park.’ ny; Shen you feet like getee ‘i iadeaiaee | \ A HOME “THROUGH "THIS BUNKER, VO RETIER § ; sowhyt at 3 Ac Mond arous A LINGERING LOOK. cons that morning g even with bin a and inquir ‘How “How ure the batteries?” HH right Ures look all right. What ts raiting motorist, g with the car, But eve ) To GET BY IT! Because I saw a dandelion up| *_¥! 1 neighborhoo: to-day.’ | you show post to he Newest } COULD HAVE SWORN AT CAME RIGHT. ABOUT aly) @ old-timer but qui the situation. He b ' ————— : how he heard that joke a and let him ra Ww I We Ue ore abain fe ee going oo) OR M « Btu When 1 was in Al the says, | (e O | t that ‘par sweetheart? | Well, I know I've got him rights so I play with him i does with a rodent mouse, ““Parlor bear, eh? 1 says. ‘You ought to study up on animal lure. Didn't you never read any of Luther | Burbank’s animal frips and froll- eries? don't get you,’ he says | ‘60 1 dectde to humiliiate him right out in public, ‘You suys “par lor” bear, I says, ‘when you meant “polo” bear. You got a lot to leurn| t you ain't learned yet.’ . | Magtime vi “He sees he's caught, co he just.’ ” in e viene Playing taught 30 grina apd aya: ‘Did I soy “parlox” scH0OLe Ua W, Bea ay SS