The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1917, Page 16

ti] H i i ' | and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY OE WEBER announces that he has arranged for the exclusive services of Fred G, Latham, stage director, under & contract that overs several years. Also that the first Weber production of the coming @eason will be “Her Regiment,” & musical comedy by Victor Herbert and William Le Baron. For this pro- duction Mr. Weber has engaged as Joint stars Caroline White, prima donna, recently of the Chicago-Phila- @eiphia Grand Opera Company, and Donaid Brian, formerly of the San- derson - Brian - Cawthorne combina- tion, Dallas Welford will be in the eompany, too. “Her Regiment” will ‘be brought to Broadway early in No-! vember, Other productions that Mr. Weber Will make include the dramatization ef @ popular novel and the presenta- Won of a well-known comedian in a Rew comedy. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Bill Bingo was a man of jest and| uns were what he loved the best.| je might be flush; he might be broke, but either way he'd have his joke. ‘d hear him say, ask, and right) it wore, but I referred to cuspidor.” hate the pun,” he'd say and grin.| “To use it Is a doggone sin, The pun ie wit that I despise. They ought to Punish punning guys.” And so it! ‘went. He joked so much he grew aa/ funny asa crutch, His friends would | @o the other way when Bill's cheap Wit went on display, One time Bill died and at the gate St. Peter said: | “I'd like to atate we have a bunch of Bills inside.” “A billion, maybe,” Bill | replied. St. Peter then removed a} sock and filled It up with mud and| rock. He beat Bill tili he yelled and| (wheezed. The angels laughed and | ‘All were pleased. When “The bh Chair’ at the Garrick Theatre, Chicago, on | Labor Day, Annie Russel) will be seen | in the role of Rosalie La Grange, the | Dart created by Margaret Wycherly. | STAGE GETS OSCAR 20. Oscar Hammerstein 24, son of the) late William Hammerstein, has given up his idea of being a 1 opens we. rstein, has given him a job behind the scenes at the Casino, where “You're In Lave" is the attraction, and Ock is studying his new trade. Last season the young man wrote the Columbia Varsity show, “Home, James!" and that is what caused his downfall, HOW TiMPUS DOES FUGIT! Here's a chance for an argument. it “The City Directory’ seventeen year ago, Lester W. Palmer, No. #1 John Street, writos: “I saw Willie Collier, Charles Reed, Willis Bweatnam and Luke School- eraft play in ‘The City Directory’ at the Bijou, Feb. 22, 1890. Why seven- teen years? Why not twenty-seven years? Willie is a pretty lively boy for his age.” FOR WAR FUNDS A big entertainment will be held on the estate of Frederick E. Lewis at ‘Westport, Conn., Saturday, June 3v, for the benefit of several war funds Mark A. Luescher is assisting the management in getting acts, Among those who will participate are John Philip Sousa and Marie Dressler. INTRODUCING PHIL Phil Blume of No. 414 Che has written a poem, which he thinks, 18 very good for a boy of his type. One verse of it is all we have room Go a Ralph Long has succeeded C. A. Bird at the Shubert offices. Irene Franklin of the Winter Garden bad a birthday yesterday, Ask her yourself. Justine Johnston is to be seen in a French revue atop the Forty-fourth Btreet Theat: next season under Shubert management. Leo Carrillo has gone to Loe An- geles to act in a Morosco play. Clif- ford Brooke wil! stage it, President Wilson attended a Wash. ington theatre recently and applauded Loney Haskell. This news comes from Loney, not the President, COMIC PAGE Frening World Daily “"S'MATTER, POP?" 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