The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1917, Page 10

oe ce ee Se ee ey semanas ne epee P ™ About Plays’ and Players By BIDE DUDLEY “NOTHER play by Jane Cowt| 4 and Jane Murfin, authors ot , “Lilac Time,” th which Miss Wow: is starring at present at the Harris Theatre, will be produced | By Selwyn & Co. in Atlantic City on June 18. It is a drama of the presen: time and with America and Ameéricazs only. It is nota play. Mary Boland has been eng tor (the leading role, Tue piay is canted | “Daybreak.” After “Daybrea! Broadway tears, Misses Cowl and Murfin Will come forward with an- other play and then anotuer and aa- other, maybe. NORA MADE A ROLL. Nora Bayes is pleased. She writes Us that ber Daaiphool entertainment, whieh was scattered about betweer Chicago and New York this sprin was an artistic success and rather fit from stage to mebody else worry about mt on the theatres. Next fall sue ‘Will bave a couple of hours more of song to offer the public at the custo- mary couple of dollars per offer. THE REAL QUESTION. hn Gotden contributes a story to this C eehe rt bright column. Agere is lo John, a piccolo player @ solo at a church benefit While he was playing somebody in : "Gosh, what an strum and stopped “My dear friends,” he said, “this entertainment is for the church and is therefore net open to criticism. I jugt heard somebody call this piccolo ‘an idiot. Who did it?” ere was nO response, and again the’ minister asked who did it. The full that followed hia second demand for the identity of the offender was broken by @ man in the rear of the room. “What difference does it make who galled that piccolo player an idiot?” he asked. “What I want to know is who said that idiot was a piccolo _ BY WAY OF DIVERSION. A @itl I know in Hanky Pank sus- that ae @weetheart drank, asked hi jd: “You bet I du.” “That's good,” said she, “for 1 do toe.” A sohemer tried to sell a mine to Farmer Hatch, who did decline. ons pti et Cordelia Jones, - Senident, @teono! for ey m Bhe six fences in her and yelled “Hooray!” and hoop-te- dee!” Old Oscar Brown would often dollar Hi poleon was Johnson's cow. seri diane anyhow, it didn’t take to eee it fit her bony now I think I'd beter Lisp adore somebody calls acop. This a 80 badly strains my mind I need exrent, but not that kind. “OUR FLAG.” Lilian Hanles, aged twelve, of No. |; | 1178 Forty-second Street, Brooxlyn, | has written a posi out the United | States Flag for thi | lows: column, It fol- TO BTAGE “THE DAISY.” Rush & Andrews have begun pre. i Pe wa Save the chief role nex! It 18 @ story of cockney life, pare, plane for their production of | yin which Conway) Bi |to flood the floor of her Musson has “Turn to the Right.’ Jon, wrvieh 5 in films, He is mak- opened last night in| bel of the Bhubert offices the Mesers. Shubert to 6! role in “The Beautiful Unknown.” The Winter Gurdon management ‘has placed Johnny Dooley and Yvette | Rugel_under a three years’ contract. | W. Herman of the Cohan & | rin} forces is at the| Hospital recovering | bon ron from Friday until Monday af- *Slarpuerita Bylva, prima donna, ts returning to America from ed Be will do concert work and act in| movies. William Malley came over trom Good b. | tea with his mother, when she suddenly no- | © i ticed that he was eating his apple jelly with his teaspoon. “Tommy, dear," she reproved him, fyou mouldn't eat your jelly with a “But, mummy, I must!” replied the | youngeter firmly. ‘ “No, dear, you must not, Put it on your bread.” “I did put it on my bread, mum- my,” exclaimed Tommy prompt! vat it won't stay there; i's too pervous.”—Liverpool Post. —_—_————_ A MASTER OF PROPORTIONS. NN eager young teacher was re- viewing the Sunday school les- e fon in a mission church in Brooklyn, The subject was Moses wand the bush that burned without being consumed. ‘The boys of ten or » twelve had been greatly interested in} the story and were now cag to ex- ing to make way for ta jern “House of Glass” |been engaged for Wilton | support in "The Loner Man Stories Evening World Daily eS “S'MATTER, POP?” wilat De vou | WANT ON YouR S +AMm en] AN DWwWIC Boda Ae ‘ezzal I LSED Oe THINK YY’ WUZNT A “MAN OF “Y'WoRD" HENRY: —BuY ze CHANGED peg He has shunted |) at | the theatrical business off onto » sid- \' n work. Juntine Johnstone says she Soli Little Clots the weather gets warm and po to go wading nightly. | she’s going to let them go to it. Adeline O'Connor, who re closed as leading woman in the Wi compan Lackaye's | A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Henry Glassman, a Harlem glazier, often laughs over the fact that John | Smoker of the Bronx operates a to- | bacco store. | FOOLISHMENT. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Brown (to Uncle Eph, whose wagon contains four dogs)—Haulin’ dawes to-day, Uncle Eph? Eph (halting his team)—Yep. Hop in! | | | | | | pose their Knowledge. Answern ri lowed her questions with the rapidity {4 machine gun ow, Harry, it's your turn.” “Y4 * was the confident answer. Tell me what there was about this burning busb that was different from any bushes that have burned since.” The boy knew--y could teil from) the snapping of his eyes—but hel paured to formulate his words. “Why ma‘am, you see this here bush it] burned’ up-—but it didn't burn down!” The teacher could not have explained it better herself.—Youth’s Companion. —————__— NEUTRAL, ne Big Boss was consulting , the janitor, relative to ie qualifications of an appli- cant for @ place as assistant Janitor “Do you know this boy's reputation for truth and veracity?” he asked. | “Yas, sub 1 guess 1 do, | vas, aul. | responded Neise } “Well, what in int | “Weil, sub, he always tells de trufe. I reckon; dat is, I nevah is ketched Paring taught 20 lemone, Book Cansnce nee ‘School, aging bim in no le, but ‘bout dis here| V'raa'ty bigness, I'm winter be fair wid you, som: Hy y a gay he wont,’ HENRY HASENPFEFFER AR De [rustan > cous squen) ) tlorse RADISH we ye ae Pop's Promises | Cost Him a Lot of Change! i Nou CAN +Ave ANYTHING IA UT You WIst, Yoy 4 Know WJ ' wee — ie rs JF rt (TH Aue THA THAME To You / PoP, YA CAN / THLIP “A NICHEL \« 15 Sa iS Copyrieht, 1911, rege Publishing Co (NY. Reming Word» (panGontr —2h4 GLAD To HEAR “THAT SUDGE" J BUT WoT LED You “To CHANGE YMIND MAY Qox Abe? YOU WELL, Y REMEMBER WH'-JSHO ‘Y' BORROWED FROM ME BACK IN You z “THAT You'D Be INDEBTED, (( Nou ear THEN- IF LENT IT To TO ‘Te ME FoR EVER!'; WELL’ HEN” =X See ° Y'KEEPIN’ Y'WoRD ) 1 LIKE A MANE ) Popul By Clifton Meek By Bud Counihan “THERE WAS “SOMETHING LL. SKE “TOLD ME To BRING Home or ''D BE SoRRY — va NOW WHAT WAS IT ? ¢ PowbdER — SoAP —TALCUM — ROSE WATER AND GLYCERINE HEY DONT SOUND LIKE (T — Ks. LbeT'S SEE - rte te dé M-M-M— \& I'VE Gone AND FORGOTTEN SOMETHING IMPORTANT AGAIN I'LL NEVER HEAR “THE LAST OF IT! ee) BUTTER, EGGS-— SALT—- | -- cneese -- nore! NOTHING “To EAT -~- MAYBE SOME ToILET ARTICLE > OW PIFFLE, 1GweuP! MIGHT AS WELL GO HOMES. AND GET BAWLED OUT " Ose ~- DID You REMEMBER } “To BUY “THosE CIGARS -— YOU WANTED ? ———~ Lucile the By Bide Dudley Waitress Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publisbing Co, ALMOST had a near fight in; here this morning,” said Lu-| to" cile the Waitress to the friendly patron. “What was wrong?” be asked. “Oh, me and Lily, the tow-head the ple counter, gets at lobsterheads | of “ce you yo mustasche you got. You're apt to be ja source of funny amusement to the other victims here, Well, as I was! bu about to dictate to you, me and Lily mixes it with much bombast. It} come about like this: I'm dealing| pie ‘em off the avm very quiet when in| ft! |comes Oscar, a fellow I knew a year \ago and ain't seen for that period of | PT Jendurance, He sets at the counter | and, after giving me the handshake, asks for & sandwich to make his! stomick happy, When I set it before him he says Lucile, 1 ain't seen you for a year and in that time you got pretty | he as a picture.’ jot girl imperious to that sort of stuft.| hind me without me knowing it ple | ‘i *Think #0, Oscar” sto him.” | “1 sure do,’ he goes on. ‘You got | the prettiest complexion I've lamped |in six months, “Of course, you know that never I'm human /f I am a put you flathead!’ I says| | hurt none, | >» on, | kindly | "It's the truth,’ he says. ‘And you got go nice and plump. I sure like | your womanly beauty and finish.’ “ ‘Oscar,’ I says, ‘you been tmbribing from the flowing cup.’ “Not me!’ he says. ‘If you banded me the best drink of whiskey in the id it would never touch my lips. rae would you douse @ fun- asi ‘On the level,’ he eays, ‘you got all the beauties of this town skinned a mile for reality and vividness.’ “Well, friend and fellow citizen, can | you imagine me? I get right chesty | land amile in repliance to him. ‘Then [it bappens | ‘Listen, beautiful!’ he says. ‘I just got in town, Could you slip me a five| | till to-morrow ? “That done it. Laly sees the pre- tense of his beauty talk and gives a round of merriment free admission to ne ji little srle "He come ae wet a ieee eco ve got to bay ie them two, First 1 Ko after Oscar, pies, Reve: T was going to give her one little push “Well, now jow there tan't no | scheme Ny you Know later she said: Lily gets it and arrives from some-|#me more butter and cream to i where in Pieland to a port just be-| but don't think I'm doing it for @ tip, 7% a ARROW (Tue New York Evening World), “I'm decidedly obstructed bj n things have taken, I see cae few words to eagh ‘Say,’ I tell him, ‘any time I J 1a five-dollar bill wake me up, I'd have to be under the im uence of rudiform, ethiopia or some them other sleep potent over the question of self vanity. You) You're a fine specimen, ain't you' oughtn't to eat soft eggs with that| Well, my beauty won't never get you nothing, so cut me out of your redol- lection, please.’ He tries to response, but I'm ¢oe y with Lily to let him land. Listen, bottle blond,’ I don't belong here in this sector brained from long sociability wit please, to your Peay buckle stuff and cudgel your vacant ¢| brain over what I've told you.? Well, sir, she goes and he goes and | I'm left in complete contro} of the palm victory, If Lily had ‘a’ an the nose for luck." fellow was a schemer, wast d the friendly patron, replied Lucile, “I wouldn't, for nothing.” A moment I'm going to slip ase," "CC ON TOUR? he Newest « ifr. CLUETT, PEABODY & CO, Ine. Alahowe -Bumstead’s Worm Syrup “ey