The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1917, Page 18

~ ens! It's so dear {t fills the avi -organization at the Grand Opera) About Plays | and Players By BIDE DUDLEY | that the success of a play on the road depends to a con- siderable extent on the ability and application of its advance agent. Next season the Harris interests will send four “Thirteenth Chair’ troups on tour and ahead of each will go & man especially selected for the job by Mr, Harris. Each agent will be told to try to beat the other three ad- vance men in getting business. To make them work their hardest Mr. Harris will hang up « bonus or two for them to shoot at and will pay them salaries of such proportions that the four will go around smiling al! the time. It ts to be a competition of agents—one that will make the, advance men do some real work, \t is! hoped, HITCHCOCK 18 HONORED. | Russell H. Hopkins has given Leo | Newman ‘a black chow dog which) has been named Hitchy-Koo as en honor for Raymond Hitchoock. Mr. Newman says Hitchy-Koo is worth | $500, although it is hard to under- \ ILLIAM HARRIG JR. believes * stand how a dog could ever acquire that much wealth. Read it again, . BY WAY OF DIVERSION. landiord, Henry Brown, to-day ed the Government should play awful price-advancing hoy're boosting evrything,” sald he, “is quite disheartening. It starts my Nanny prancing, It isn’t right | that men should try to make food prices hit the sky. New lawa, J think, | we're needing, And coal--amy heav- | * man with fear to see its values # ing.” “You're right, friend Bro said to him. “The poor man‘ to eat is elim uniess his mental: But, by the way, then, “I want to lease your flat again. 5) You'll the same old rental’ “Oh, no,” satd he, right off the bat; “T've got to get more for the fat, | Three hundred | must raise you.” 1/ walked away and pondered deep, for | 1’ been shown that talk is cheap—so cheap it may amaze you. “CALDWELL” WRITES ONE. A rhyme dedicated to the Fifteenth Infantry, New York National Guard, has reached us. It is signed by George H. Caldwell of the Palace Theatre. We have a suspicion that the name is another of Walter Kingsley’a nom de plumes. He writes poetry, you know, Here's the rhyme: By Cry the EP eer eee OUR OWN POPULAR SONGS. ‘The shades of night were fallifg ‘round tue ttle whan Groth option called bie wile and made an awful ros, y Mie wblatere Jong ere in a amet, and be was fe entead) nn om S nets Juat wee Diared thle fearful trick there wee ate Bice rey £28 hae Me waste the won, lm, thrown the door, and GHORUB, “Who put these cockierurre into my whlaier, 60 you, know ? meta a won. knows just where Be Put theae cochie-burre into my whishere, Go MISS SPOONER'S PLAN. Harry Clay Blaney announces that Cecil Bpooner will again head a stock House, Brooklyn, next Fall. It is | planned to try out few plays and keep | the successful one: ing as long as| the public wants th LAMBS AUCTION 8EAT6, The auction sale of seats for the Lamba Gambol to be held at the Mi hattan Opera House Sunday even! and Monday afternoon brought in $ 000 in bonuses yesterday at the Hud- son Theatre. The highest bid “was $1,002 for a box, It was made by W. H. Currie, representing a syndicate of Lambs. Morris Gest and Mrs. William Collier each bought a box also, and Mra. Collier paid @ bonus of $250 for one orchestra seat. Her husband very adroitly inveigled her into bidding against herself for the seat, much to the amusement of men in the crowd who maw through bis trick, Sarah Bernhardt, who way elated to be an auctioneer, was unable to be present, and her place was taken by Barney Bernard. Gossip. May Thompson of “You're In Love” says she'd rather have hard- tack than # cold bottle and « bird, She'a single, too, boys. If you own a Liberty bond show it to the doorkeeper at any Marcus Loew Theatre to-day and he'll invite | You to #ee the show, free, “The Man Who Came Back” will be played the 850th time at the Play- house to-night, ccording to @ morning newspaper Richard Walton Tully ‘was once a jJanttor at the University of Califor. | nla. A sweeping assertion, eh? | William Farnum, Fox film star, has | invested §10, Apparently th: a $10,000 Will! A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Many a married man does a single! im vaudeville, DR. BINGLE'S TIPS, If you're afflicted with ague it's beat i avold your friends. They may want you to shake, FOOLISHMENT, 0 in Liberty bonds. hat might be called | FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE “Why do you think none of the heavyweights can whip WI a ne of them has a sho’ Plane Playing taught 20 lemons, Rage 32 tr coaial hans cheat Tel, Mocougmde IM GONNA Get A EGG AN HAve tT. ATCHED INTO A sae o> OLD GRINDSTONE GEORGE Copyright, 1017, Preve Publishing Ca. Na Evening World HENRY HAS HEY-Look! 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