The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1917, Page 20

iwgteatie eae tite» \ bi IF we Did, +e WoutdD CRY and Players Ry BIDE DUDLEY every first-class theatre tn the Broadway district is to house successful attractions next seasen it's going to call for a tre- ¥ menfous amount of producing. Be- fore the year 1917 ends it will have seen at least twelve new $2 theatres erected between Sixth and Eighth Avenues and Forty-second and Fitty- first Streets, Several of these are being used now, the Morosco and the New Bijou, for instance, while work- men are busy on the construction of at least six others, A quick guess would give the Broadway district a Promise of from forty-five to fifty first-class theatres for use ncxt sea- son, Placing the number at forty- five, if every play produced for Broad- way consumption were @ succes! would mean nearly 100 would have to be ed. Counting failures, if all these theatres are to make money |' next season perhaps 400 productions must be made, The effect of the war | on New York theatricals, when the I Americans really begin to fight, can- not be foretold, etter postpone building that garage @ while; | may be able to rent one at a very reasonable figure, | WYNN MISSED WYNN. At the end of the first performance of “The Follies" Tuesday night at the New Amsterdam Theatre, F. Ziegfeld | ir. met Ed Wynn, who used to be aj member of the troupe. ' “How did you like it?” asked the manager. ‘Pretty good!" replied Wynn. “But, oh, how I did miss me!” SOLDIERS TO HEAR LAUDER. Harry Lauder is coming to America again in the fall. Primarily, bis ob- Ject is to collect some more ducats for the Lauder coffers, but as a side line} he will entertain soldiers and make | an effort to induce men to enlist in| the army and navy. At present he is singing for the soldiers in France, WALTER 18 WRITING, | Eugene Walter, author of “The Knife,” is at work on another play. It) will be a drama based on “a certain | Phase of social conditions now in evi- denee in New York.” He expects to produce it about Jan. 1) IN “A MAN'S HOME." The Messrs. Shdbert have sur- Tounded George Nash with a good cast in'“A Man's Home,” a new play by Anna Steese Richardson and Ed- mund Breese, Among those engaged OLD GRINDSTONE GEORGE Comyriaght, 1911, Press Publishing On (VB v WHY HERE [Ve HAD NezzA “HEN Ys are Roert ain Conrad Nugle, Mar- ‘on. bye OF Mpauph 2} CONSIDER IVE BEEN 7 = kare Dale, jagrane, Marion OLLECTION PLATE” & INSULTED AW! xX DON’ Oe Lina Minna tae. OUR CHURCH FoR “TH! PAsy GROSEIN, THINK “THERES ANY YEAR @AN' LAST WEEK “THEY nery, Donald Sawyer and Polly Prey- SLIPPED ME “TH "GATE" or. The play will open in Albany on June 16, BAD FEELIN’ TOWARDS Nou “Sreve't DOUGHTY “SURPRISED.” Hector Randall Doughty, the best bass drum player in Bellerose, L. L, was the victim of @ “surprise party” last night. About twenty of his friends appeared at his home and he had to feed them.‘ Mr. Doughty took it good-naturedly, howover, and of- fered to play “Poor Butterfly” for his guests. Then be found he'd lost his bass drum. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. The season's here for Betty May to tke her bathing sult, and go down where the wavelets play and where the fishes scoot, and take a seat where all may #66 and note her lovely symmetry of form, for marvellous {# ehe and, likewise, very cute. Tho sun—ah, privileged orb Is he! ‘Sweet Betty favors him, She lets his rays, TI DUNNO ABOUT “THAT —BUT_ IT Look} DAWGone. SUSPICIOUS SusPic 100s Me €Ye -wor ‘TH Smrrhanh. WW), Prace Puvinming Oo (4. ¥. Brening Wor't) Coprright, 117, Proce Pubtiebing On (H. T, Rrening World) POILT , ¢ WHY “TH FELLER ‘SGOT ONY GéT To Do MY KB sONE —tHeY in manner free, play o'er her features trim. A coat of tan is her desire, that | men may marvel and admire, that} maids may know chagrin and_ ire. | Yes, that is Betty's whim. Fair HE EVE Kiddie Klub Korner CONDUCTED BY ELEANOR SCHORER NG WORLD’ Betty lounges on the beach and “ = ob ite mae Tat Soe BSc eee | FOutdoorland i and dimpled arm. She, therefore, owe views 4 with alarm and keep beyond | copyright, 1017, by ‘The Press Publishing Co. ita reach, But when the right man | (The New York Evening World) ome S ever flag eo beautiful? Md ever flag so fill one ‘comes along Sweet Betty works a| : b j I Sommp, Ane dosen't. wink iS very The Children See a Crane. with love and duty? It wrong to take a plunge and scream. : : Tella Gear Rake Ok: all j Tey Eee ieaaad ia mente ceil he ae da ple ice |Americans, from white-haired old | and they're engaged a month or 40, | huge roclk underneath a rose . baba and thus Sweet Betty hooks @ beau, bush. Before them in the grass| men. 10 pals smalle it Bt adie completing life's young dream, sat Bombus, ‘The children had just \P | stripes and br | tion's emblem, | STARS AND | GossiP. |finished telling him how they spent Raymond Hitchcock thas invited! the afternoon, You know, dear kid-| Pilly and Ma Sunday tosee “Hitchey- | dies, Bombus likes to hear all he can| Koo" es h jabout Wide-Awake Land, ‘The Pro- Paula fessor of Outdoorland arose and with} his magic Wand drew a large | 8, in mpose seon to appear her own songs over the s ght stars” ‘of our na- STRIPES ON SCHOOL- HOUSES. ‘The raising of the Stars and Stripes nolhouses of the land as \ an inspiration to the children of her own gowns. on the grass, “Stand inside of ‘Ami dates back more than a cen frround on Long imand and | ck", ee,cammanded, the cal | tury The first such ceremony was f ground on Long Island and and we will go for a little trip | |eutye PE Divs auen paraineny ae is raising potatoes and a few nice Like an ae roplane the grass circle le ri Bald: 8, int Hil, eolerain, weeds. ! the nd with the little party anc Mass May hho. custon A note’signed with the name of zily away to the edge of aj eee with 3 tt end, since t he last Helen Clarke, of “Love O' Mike,” “oh, Bob!" cried Bens. | Half century, states that she in to be married July|"Look at that wonderful moon, it ts| Any BATH red that a. 4 to F. von Bermuth, so red and large." As Bob looked WU} MLaiter sill {¢ was declared that pa~ ; ENG. Hose conslineds: "ANG wnat 6 that “iT LOOKS LIKE A PICTURE | ONCE SAW,” SAID BOB. honor the ee eee eee MILTON PENS A PIECE. tall, graceful bird ‘standing in front x Flag Day. Milton McDonnell of No. 148 West ‘ of th errr hildlios apply’ for membership, \ Mshed Tuesday, July 3, Avenue, ch year marks Bm Our Fair Flag B | | loyal Americans and is loved as one’| of the noblest and mdst beautiful of American poems. Francis Scott Key, author of this lovely poem to our beloved Stars and Stripes, was a prisoner on the frigate Surprise during the attack on rt Henry, Baltimore, Sept. 13, 1814 The poem plainly tells what he saw From the vessel he watched the flag on the fort through the day and night “by the rockets’ red glare” and to his joy "saw in the morning the “broad stripes and bright stars” ‘still gallantly streaming.” Here is the poem that he hegan writing on the ship and completed later in Balti- more: ‘The Star-Spangled Banner, By Francis Beott Ker. Jb! may can you nee by the light, OMA SAB oudly’ we’ batted ae the UwilgAt 8 tant pee and bright stare through the arn we watch’d, were eo gallantly red glare, the bombs bursting in ws " . e iversary e adoption of ‘still ther % “L don’ ow," wered rb. ] they live here?” Bob wanted to know.) dark spots, and etr as it may) the ann 4 On. say, does the star-spangied banner yet ware Aixty-eventh Street wrote a “poem” | wna {t looks just like some. beautiful Aly ereat book says: Bombua con. |#eem are never more than two in| the flag of the U, 8, A, Oh, "8s lata ‘of the free, end. the hme ‘of the the other night and sprained an ankle} japanese pictures I once saw in a], 91% Bren ‘a i vag umber, When the flock returns tor |*THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.” brave! , in his haste to get it in the Post OMice | shdp window." tinued, “that In the winter they flock | niche 1 think It will be time for them! The Star-Spangled Banne On the shore dimly seen thro’ the mists of the 1 to us. Bearing in mind it)" swell, children, I guess it is my|to lands wher® the sun is burning) to break up into pairs, like they d0| most heautitul song ever wr atl Gs tus ads tno Ok ee ankle, not his brain, try the! turn to aay something now, The bird| hot, but when spring comes they re-|every spring, and after the eummer| our figg, has not been formally cena at Aad emgivig jyou see is cailed a crane. We WUl]turn northward. They travel in| 1s over they will come together again |Our national anthem, because it re- t which the breeze o'er the ng the batted. Jane: i's titty ewate «| walk close up to him. Now observa! flocks, ax you wil Into one large flock and fly #oUth-\iatew to a certain war ineldent | tits ‘slows, Sail’ onomia’ bait ale paving none at all if peices don't| that he has a long neck and long Loud calls were 1 and from | ward,” But it is known and sung by al closes? i ¥ ball It Price don't | oye,” said Bombus Fe Rva'sitih sirecma running ¢hhouey » children told Bombus how de- i id Now, ie*eaiches the eleam of the morning's fist ris ans emailer, Jane, than what tha're) “Can he fly?” questioned Bess, “T) the meadow lind the swishing of|lghted they were with their visit to — In {Chemiocy veflected gow chineg cn the stream fertorieate my hapa home and weave you, | don't see any wings.” wings could be heard and hundreds | tho land of the cranes, and Bombus, From Kiddies. Tia the sarepangied beaner, OB, long may It a | "Indeed!" answ Bombus. "Ty of cranes flew into the sk with a sm forth his magie For the Kiddle Kieb. O'er He tend of the free end the home of the Jadmit you cannot see the wings very!°".ney ane only taking a lit }wand and, drawing a large circ Wor the Hiddie Iiab ite A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, lainly, Like the tall, they are short.) igo said Homi You se sround the children, cried out loud} irre! for it tw And where {s that band who eo vauntipgly swore Oscar Hipple of Fairfield, Conn,,| Ut these birds fy from the troples) they have selected these parts As if giving direction to a eoachman, | Hypa That re hayes of war tad Sie Dattle's conf aign t g i und | $9, well within the Aretic Cirel noir nests. Dry sp ure found wh “Home, to Wide-Awake Land. = roa Ad r jould leave 1s no more! eopete tt i epuipl aa iat r “Do they travel in palrs, and do ee ene oe eee tah and. there uggested by MABEL STREAM, | vor)-ukind buses” Ties ang ae vane © re Sept Fan) Ravens in A ; were rns thoy build. ‘Phe eggs found tn the} ven, $1 Forty-second Street, No fee could are he iraling and lave ees }HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB Alo wut tase’ a lenin with I vom the ae #8 DR. BINGLE’S TIPS. OBTAIN YOUR PIN. - re _ = — the ‘etarepangied banner tn triumo If your mouth doesn't suit you go Heginning (with any num EARN A KLUB PENNANT, | JUNE DRAWING CONTEST. 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Yes, indeed,” Lucile went on. “This morning two of them was in here talking about the possibility of — | being baffled into the army, and both | were very much preconcerted about {t “"L don't believe they can get me,’ says one. ‘I got corns and a sister {dependent onto me.* “I got it, ‘How many corns are dependent onto you?’ I ask in all soriosity. “IT don't mean that,’ he says. ‘I got corns on my feet and can hardly | walk.’ | “Well, I got a bum knee,’ says the other, ‘It was hurt in a auto acci- |dent. I couldn't run to save my life.’ | “It made me angry, but I didn’t |show it. To the man with the al- leged corns I says: ‘But maybe they | would get a cherryopodist to oppose your corns. Anyway, you don't shoot with your toes like the armless won- der, do you?’ “Of course not!’ he retallates, ‘but the shooting'is going on? ‘Maybe they'd take you out in one of those ambulance unfits,’ I says, “‘It couldn't be done according to the army rules,’ he tells me. ‘They wouldn't overlook the order against callouses,’ “'Oh, I don't know!’ comes from me. ‘Maybe they'd get callous about the rules,’ “It was just a little merry-making on my part, but he don't get it. I'm awful sorry’ I can't go,’ he says, ‘but I can hardly walk.’ “*My knee has got a chronicle dis- ease,’ says the other, ‘I have to walk about like a snail moves, I think | got water on the knee,’ “Why don't you see a plumber?’ I ask in that happy tempo of mine “It's no joke,’ he says. ‘If it wasn't for my Knee I'd be over in France, My father was in the Civil how could I get to the place where | stonish ide of t ‘ot “T say poison In solitude. dolin unab! O'Brien, t to me it on emption showing akers,”” ‘A lot fake on because co thi ‘It's onl John ne Raglne (The War and did some fighting that was You must take after your mother's “walk with this ‘Waddye think, Lucile!’ he ickens has opened hi ron: the corner ¢ drinks sae + LE wisht you cor ecks and out they go, almost OOTH TARK “The averag ism as a Joke. An illustrator found out receptly tT was in as intere the subject, so he rushed meee with @ story about a widow who oT tried to get in touch with he si ceased husband, ge “The medium, after \ after a good futile work, said to the widowh be “"The conditions this ‘ r is evenin, . lish communteation with Mr " ma'am, * ion “ ‘Well, I'm not surpriged,’ h t surprise: widow, With a sium ANY 2 the New York & World) ing. he family,’ I suggest me!’ he says. ‘I've got my fighting spirit, but I can't nee.’ but serve the While theyre uae ng all bunged Qp and , In comes Hokus and takes nom a the coumter id is giving drinks away trade,” uid ‘a’ seen the on the two wenldebe= y | 8. ‘They jump u,), grad run. All three of their ex- feet worked like a charm them to be the worst kind of of men will ci grounds,” aim exemption said the. fried hey’ sure will,” said 1. aid Lucile, - + j think is a shame. Well,” she wait | “moment » “Tm going to wedding t My brother's goin) to get mar lw happen till “next told him to do it nor he could get ‘zone out of going ing a wife) °° WEF oe of th JUST ASIN LIFE, ‘ON, the latest sMiritualism, gaid day: Man treats spiritual nvert to © other 1 upon’ m chook, eight now, and Up tl about Bulletin y ve half-past did show Philadelphia Piano Playing taught 20 Walled free Original Ch are vt Tl, Morwingalay WLW, 12d