The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1917, Page 16

About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY in Mew York “ deere be te te te plane for opening the Lille re, Lae Angeles, with & com Peay of pinyors patterned of te he thet Holbrook Milo bad ot the Prinwees, Mr Keen . @B14, Wo indvoe Mr . Petit ve dead the « . Pees and pur © ° Grane ve i type Soterding to od Lame Kumor She idee bud may beoume interes te it wile alr, Been €. C. & G. OPEN A HOUSE Bilott, Comsocn 6 Opened Lae La balle Theat ODE Wii direct |e destinies The special “Vs, boy headed vy Joseph Manvey Bawyer, is Wie wttraction (here iat oyster is ihe house manager Ot, Comstock & Gest pian tu Quire Ubeatres in be and Phila Geiphia in which Ww present | Musical plays HIS CHIEF REABON of “The Inner er from # young on Ww be “Ot course | moy,” the letter said, “b another More important reason They tell me you got 4 lot of funny siories, end I'd ke to learn them #0 a8 to @ monvlogutr.” « Thy pure democracy shai! tall the what to do. fairy ‘Tie autocrac ruse js ode Tm eure | counin't beer 1 guess I'm talking wiidiy, for ‘can couumaud ; Mer motver gave bat birth, No other queso ie bail a sweet, ‘mone will ever be, ay " | te abe whe rules my beset, GEST HAS A 8CH Morris Gest proposes that the city it bim to turn bis “Wanderer” lock of sheep loose in Central Park to mow the grass, He thinks the municipality could save much money and labor in this way. Mr. Gest's idea is to assign a sheep to an acre of grass each day, with instructions to just eat and eat. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Baid Silas McGuggin, in Peoweozle’s estore; “The women don't use much sense any more. While most of ‘a active id eager and smart, they overdo ev'ry blamed thing that they start. Now take this here knit- ting! It's great, I'll admit, It helps U ev'ry woman contribute ber bi. But gfoah, she ain't s'posed to knit sweat- ers 80 much she starves her whole fam'ly and gets ‘em in Dutch, My wife and my daughter are knitting right now. The breakfast they cooked wasn't fit for a cow. | asked ‘em to knock off and open my og y Just kept clicking ther Begs. Now that's a con ought to fit-a law tha dust when women sho. think I'll write President o: ay and tel) him to fix up ~ right eway.” “Say, when you 4 Wood row,” said Grandpa Moet please ask him to lay @ new. *) «walk for me, Mine's got some bad planks that have rotted clean through.. And Bilas, ask Woodrow to hurry—please do!" Old Silas said “Bosh!” and he left right away. “Si bates to kidded,” said Petey McKay, Jod Pee. sweeple chewed his toba bit. Said “Is 81 happy? W: “BRANDED” SEPTEMBER 3, Oliver D. Batley's play, “Branded,” with Christine Norman in the leading Pole, will open at Albany on Sept. 3. | |, 1 reckon | It will then visit Schenectady and | Frovidence, after which it may coms to Broadway, We are reliably in formed that it {s a drama based on “the recent blackmailing cases (hai startled society in America and Eu- rope.” GOSSIP. “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" will n in Stamford to-night. It goes to e Olympic, Chicago, Channing Pollock has a small table fn his auto, on which he writes lyrics, ’ ebecks and things en route Harry Mestayer, of “The Knife,” has written two vaudeville sketches which will be produced soon. Mme. Yerska will present a comedy Playlet, “Her Lace Parasol,” in vaude-| ville next week. Lucille Dorrington ts to be featured by Charles K, Harris in @ film. has been motion picturing with Eva Tanguay Vaudeville and picture shows are given every second Thursday at Island for the insane patients. Poli has charge of them. There will be one to-night, Helen Carrington of the Winter Gar- den chorus has been made a principal ‘ in “Tho Passing Show of 1917." St has been at the big Wifticth Street Theatre four seasons. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. Brooks—Mr. Ziegfeld has noching @© do with it. Probably not over four weeks. | M. M. K.--Donald Brian has loft| ahe Frohman management and will be in a Joe Weber production, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Because a Pickwick, N. J., small boy was able to spell the’ family Bame of the Kalner two other buys ¢hased him seven blocks intent on ' Ucking him, FOOLISHMENT, Whenever my pipe I start to emoke, y wife begins to cought aud choke, p, Wuat al awful smell ‘This married Miie sometimes is terrible, ‘| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. } “Pop, what's the Central Po ‘ “The telephone girls, B! yy." : , Popi"* Bho | ““S'MATTER, PO! ee joa] a’ | | ; asw Ber ™ ae ; [| Pe? Knows )OveRny tain ¢ age u eet et eee eo ae ee on ecco ori ‘ me YOU'RF RIGHT IN SAYIN’ s TH’ DOG PERK ATE HIS SAUSAGE FIRST —BUT HOW DID YOU FIND OUT 2 Cut out the picture on all four Then carefully fold dotted line 1 ite entire length, Then dotted line 2 and dotted line 3. Fold each section underneath accurately. When completed turn over and you'll find @ sur- prising result. PRECAUTIONS, ROWN old in the service of bis; s0de and remarked, in a most per- master and mistress, James emptory manner: was @ privileged retainer, sonnet Par donne bear's any fish He was waiting at table one day| “Madam,” came the emphatic re- when @ guest asked for a fish fork, but the request was ignored. Then the hostess noticed the epi. we lost @ fish fork.” the garden.—Tit-Bits, STAND ON ONE ply, “last time Mra, Jones dined here James has now been relegated to ‘LEcexte tees] — Bvepind World Daily “Gwan—There Ain't No Such ——, "pgp f v1 Tday' dow mved mucH - is A @uatr a ) [- if or e Yor slow eaued 45 o —- Atae« viwy oF f | < ice gream | d Piney ice CREAM — i WHY I WADDA Fost ALL TH’ wAY Home! On the Level, We Don't Blame the Officer! oe Measur Lis Here Y'Go Y'erRuTE XK Never GET No SYMPATHY FRoM You -ILt BeT (Fr DIED “TO-MORROW YouD RRY ANOTHER WoMAN IMMEDIATELY # Outdoorland ® WIT, by The Pr ‘Publishi » ie New York Evening Work) = Coprriey The Lady’s Slippers HE evening was sultry and, try as they would, the children eduld not get started off to Sleepyland, “Pretend you are walking to Bleepy- land, Begin to count your steps and keep it up unt you find yourself there,” said Bob, “and I'll count too.” This they did,’ Coming from diffter- ent ways, Bess and Bob met on the roadside of the great oak. She had gathered two golden yellow flowers on the way. “What are these?” she asked Bob, holding up the pretties. “I found ever so many of them com- ing through the woods, They grew under the trees, almost always two or three together bo you know their name? Before Bob had time to answer a great snoring was heard from the woodland side of the oak, It was Bombus. He had fallen asleep while | awaiting them, | “This is the @epot where Bomb | does most of his magic tricks, F haps I can do some too," whispered ingly, sprigely, Jumping speen! nake Bexsie a Fairy Queen! Wobh jobblin, bumping hobblin! ase make me @ fearsome Goblin!” Hob uttered the wordy in solemn voice, making the gestures that Bom- |bus ‘used, and slowly, slowly the magic apell began to work. To be sure, Bessie was turning into a Fairy | Queen and Bob had changed into @ Goblin when Bombus's snoring took on a new tune, He was waking! | HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB AND OBTAIN YOUR PIN. Dow be | | be ith any pum an th Brening World, No. ®t Park Hw, YY wus ote" in witch you” must mate YOUR NAME, and ADDIBSS. me 408 Bot orer filteea year of wer.” "Every member fa say Klub Pin end @ KIDDIE KLUB COUPON NO, 205 een | “Klub Pin, | | ft a membership certlt b Korner but her shoes had changed! By] “Oh, please, please do not do ao!” jthem Bombus would know her, Bud-|pleaded Bessie, trying vainly to pull denly out of her hand jumped the|her golden glippers off her feet. Two two golden flowers and fastened|big tears started up in her eyes rns @ | fool a wise old owl like myself, Also, re ‘ » oat Ps 1 fi st wld f f apts slat BOMBUS WAS WAKING AND BESS WAS IN A PLIGHT! Boss was in @ plight! Everything | Outdoorland forever and ever!" themselves upon her feet, ure enough, they are lady's slip pers!” exclaimed Bob. Tenderly Bormbus wiped these away [with a cobweb handkerchief, and next thing she knew Hess found her- “Oho!” yawn the Professor, | self in Wide-awake-land. | WA those child never com | Bob was still breathing heavily. | “Not this night!" roared Bob Gob-| “Perhaps he is trying to get out of lin, stepping before him. “We have|that goblin. suit,” she thought, So ‘bribed the Sand Man not to visit | she rapped on the wall until he called, {them this night." | "Yes, I'm awake.” “We have much to say to you!"| Suggested by MARG | piped Queen Bessie, whose golden| HARRY, age fourteen, of ‘shoes whisked her ‘round to his side |Ninth Avenue, Long Island City. | of the tree. |°"Explain to me, Quoen Bessie and | Bob Goblin, how came you to try to Composition Contest for August how would you like ft should I make the charm real and keep you here tn | ¢ eee HO is your favorite American hero, and why? The Kiddie Klub contest { Earn a Klub Pennant j AAA RADDA - 4 August will be to see who can} TWENTY TWO.TNCH te panaat ' mad the best composition on the | \ A f ; ibove subject, with an award of $1 | bearing the Kiddie Kiub masse, will be elven ine xiven to each Klub Kousin who to every Klub member who secures five new Writes the best article for bis or her | Mpembere, and to every new Kivd meindye who | hy pring in with him or ner four other new mem. |") composition ts to exceed 400 as, pumbered in rotation, anus: ; erm Oe iach’ nana, together with the nig, | Words, Use only one alde of the ty , age and addree <f each new member, just | Paper, The contest closes Saturday, Py jotted "when iadividual hidden apniy “Yor Sept. 1, and the frat. award-winning pg the may od. Story will be published Tuesday, taln penusnle ‘name Bept. atne not my “eading' i wi —KL No _ MY DEAR —NOT RIGHT 4 w muced Ss A / Toy- Furr) ‘ or Se ce cream) l Lis” + CONDUCTED BY | Dear Cousins: RE you all thinking hard and writing cleverly about your favorite American hero? Are you telling why you admire him and what he has done to make himself great in his country’s eyes, are you? I hope so. This is one of the most interesting contests our Klub has ever had. At the time when all the nations of the world are doing great deeds, should we not tel what great things the men of our nation have already done? We should and we will! ‘This is the first of our writing con- tests In which the awards were given according to age. The child who writes the best composition for his or her age will receive the award for that age. Nothing could be fairer, Your compositions are coming in to the Kiddie Kiub's oficgs by the score every mail, But not’ one of them| has been opened and not one of them | will be opened until Sept. 1, because | HIS pic: ° ture rep- resents® me singing ‘Vest! La Giubba’ in ‘Pagiiaccl,” writes Cousin Frank An- tisert, of No. 134 Bast Houston Street, Now York City. And here Is the picture, which has won for him the award for the best drawing by a klub cousin four- se teen years old. His ambition, then, is to be a a famous opera singer, and a very good ambition we say, particularly when you think of the real pleas- ure one who has @ splendid voice and Dow + Jue Yo measures’ 1. Tee ta SuPPen. You TAN 6. weve 1 Tg ELEANOR SCHORER | Cousin Eleanor’s Klub Kolumn i 1 wish to judge them ali together to be sure and make no mistake as to which are of most merit, Your interested ‘ Cousin Eleanor. P. 5.—Be sure to use onty one side pf paper to write on, All of you, I now, have been in printing offices, but I wonder how many have noticed the one thing that printers never do, They never look upon the back of a plece of paper. So grown-up people who make their living by writing, always write on but one side of a sheet, If you want to make your work look as !f it were by a real, sure-enough author, you will remem- ber this when you send in your Stories about your favorite American heroes. And don't forget to give your age and certificate number, Young America, America, T am a boy of ning And wivh 1 had brothem to fall | would fight for my country and be tr. os wil our | Red, ite aed Blue, fine T hove ‘day 1’ will’ be 's soldier’ boy, Ara WOE: HARI ER tbe lad foams mt e Nor abe Ayre “Avente “raoxigee } Award Winner, July Drawing Contest. eet Hang sg Fal aloh ata Bala Ty alee iA ACR es LaWa sae ARRAS r