The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1917, Page 10

/ j ; ' | About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY WED BELASOO wth oper the eraron 9! the Heinere 7 on Rept « wim 6 new : GAy entities “Polly With « Peet” FT George Middivwwon ant Guy Bolter The east tecludes ine Cnire, Anne lovee @tt Fischer and Theanes Nernoids “Thte Wey Out.” «@ comedy by Frank Graven, founded on « story Wy) Octavias Rey Cohen and J. U. Gie- ee7, Wilh open the George M. Cohan ‘Theatre's season on Aug. #0. J, Fred Zimmerman jr. is the producer, Ar- | thur Hammerstein Bas postponed the | opening of “De Luxe Annie” at te Booth from Labor Day to Hep! 4 to! avoid confit with other “frat nightie” DITRICHSTEIN HAS TWO. Coban @ Har nnounce that the game of Leo Ditrichstein’s new starr- ing vebicle @ “The Judge of mos.” The play is « drama in three) acts by Calderon de La Barca tt} will open in Milwaukee Sept. 27 and) @ to the Coban Grand Opera House, Chicago. Later it will be seen on Broadway, During Mr. Ditrichatein's Now York engagement be will offer another play entiled “The King.” tt fa @ comedy of French origin. In the Ditrichstein company will be Betty Calliah, William Ricciardi, John Hed- ouln, Percy Ames, Waiter Howe, Ber- tram Miller, Garreth Hugbes, W. Powell, A. G. Andrews, Artour V. Gibson, Madeline Delmar and Janet @iater. DOESN'T LIKE “SAXON.” Hugh Ward, the Australian theat- wical magnate, now in New York, Would like to see the term “Anglo- Baxon” changed to “Anglo-Amert- 'e ought to wipe out that word ‘Baxon,’” be said while at lunch yes- terday. “It's German.” ‘Then he ordered some German fried potawea NATALIE ALT TO WED, ‘The matrimonial department of this column has a nifty bit of news for you, Mr, and Mra, Reader. Nataile Alt, prima donna, is to be married. Before cold weather sets in Miss Alt wil the bride of Maurice Rosenthal, clothing manufacturer, and will be able to get all the cloth- ing she wants at bedrock prices. She is appearing in the leading feminine role in “Good Bye, Boys," the title of which was not suggested by Mr, Rosenthal. FOOLISH OLD PACKEY. “Dear Bir,” writes Packey H. Ross of New Roohelle, “being a stealy reader of your column, | saw your notice of the opening of Fred Stoni new show at the Forrest The Philadelphia. In regards to sa would like to remark that there will be many shapely limbs in the Forrest on the opening night. Ob, goodness!" ELMER K. WRITES, TOO. “My Dear Mr, Dudley,” writes El- mer K. Price of No, 200 West Fifty fourth Street, referring to a tale fought up out of our own head yes- terday, “I don’t know about John Mason being able to do a dance, but | unless I am very much mistaken, ho do the song part, all right, and it Boone have to be 'a talking song, either. Ask any of the old-timers, Leander Richardson or Harry Askin, for instance, what they thought of; Mr. Mason's performance of tho Colonel in ‘Patience,’ with the old Boston Museum Company. His ren- dition of that role stamped him as a genuine artist. Your column ts al ‘ways interesting. I missed you so much while you were gone.” (Blushes | and konsternation from the kolum | konductor.) | Gossip. Joo Vion has been engaged by Nor worth & Shannon as company man: ager of “Odds and Ends of 1917." ‘Alan Robinson, long identified theatricals, is to Join the soldi Plattsburg. | Jake Lubin has booked Paula Reeves, in her songalogue, on the Marcus Loewe time. the Lincoln Square Sept. Marg: Wycherly has returned from a tion and is again appear: | ing in the leading role in “The Thir- teenth Chair.” ‘Newman, the ‘Traveltalk man, | writes to say he has succeeded in| reaching the summit of Mt. Rainter | with a motion-ptcture camera. | Sol Aiken, Iast season with Mrs. Fiske, will have a “sleeping sickness” role in Madison Corey's “A Grass Widow." by Wolf & Pollock, If you are an actor out of work see Wilton Lackaye, of “The Inner Man.” He needs potato diggers on his farm. ‘The Messrs. Shubert announce that ‘on Labor Day all the Shubert Thea- | tres will be dressed in their winter garth, | “Sirens of the Sea” is the title of the Jewel Productions, Inc, feature film which will go into the Broadway ‘Theatre Sunday evening. Reauteous maidens, sea weed and ukeleles com- bine to lend it atmosphere. | RELIGIOUS NOTE. | Frank Pope had lunch with Robert Priest yesterday. BUSY SPOTS IN NEW YORK. ‘The ticket office of the Hamburg- | American Bteamship line. | FOOLISHMENT. 4.97.27 the, nae, of ie Ade A a aick ‘started out (ors ride, ‘When the bore. # big loafer ve e A> “Ohmutter | there and crank him, you snide! | FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, Doorman (at mask ball)—dt's time | to remove your mask, sir, | Mike Coyne--I haven't @ mask on. eee gree Self-Improvement, “effort is the key- stone of success. without pushing. The motto of the “"S'MATTER, POP!” ——— 6 Tee rele PA. 6 Love. oF ‘) ° Pete | ‘i. — N'MEAN “1S GAY NONE oF You BIRDS Age THERE WITH TH’ "(Cceemre raer ] Fvening World Daily Magazi t rN tlas THad Tey \ een wn A J, Quarne: WE AINT™ Ler'em “PREPAREDNESS STUFF" WHY DAWGONIT 'S'Pose eH “GERMANS "INVADED US HUH—S'Pose “HEN DID? Next Time He'll Conduct His Experiments “SN CoRNHUSK WOULDN'T. * MEADOW " NOTIREE } WORRIED NoNet COME ON Hid! ne We'd Like to See the Other Party to This Altercation! Under Cover! "NO AN' IM MOST SARTIN | OLE SAUIRE DoBBINS™ WOULDNT LEND 'EM Hid PASTURE > Go WOT \F THEY bo Come Over? [Fetaay, Aeron ae. near] ‘i By C. M. Payne By Clifton Meek WHERE “TH' GAM Hit ARE THEY GONNA FIGHT | The Day’ S Goo d St orie S PUSH. “ce 1S," sald the pompous mer- chant, addressing a meeting of the local Guild for Mutual We get nowhere successful man, and I think I may claim to be successful, is ‘Push, push, push and go!’ At that moment a vuli proke the reepecttul silence of the audience, The lecturer located it, tren pointed a reproving finger at the tn- terrupter. Moving Picture Funnies | GOAT! m result, (Copyright, National Newspaper Service.) EV ITS QUITE ODD WHY >, TH'GENT HERE S COULDN'T OUTRUN TH! > me SLR Hae NF turnover and you'll find | “You may laugh, young man, but you will soon learn that you will ee reach your goal without push- “Nor you won't, neither!” laughed the flippant one. ‘There's ‘alf a dozen kids outside pinching the petrol from. your car to light a bonfire with!"-— Buffalo News. ———~s WANTED BEANS AS USUAL, HIS story hails from Maine: An old man lived alone, and was as skilled in housekeeping as are many men. One day he bought a can of baked beans and put them on the stove j in the unopened can to warm up. He forgot them in the press of other culinary duties and in due season the natural re- sult happened. After calmly ex- amining the room, its conten his clothes, he drawled: 1, 1 lke beans, but 1 don't know as I want druy into me."—The Christian Heral A WITTY COLONIAL DAME. HE women of the olden days In| your country were not lacking in mother wit. A host who was carving @ pig at a dinner more than a hundred years ago took a rib of the pig and, holding it up before the la~ dies, sald: “Ladies, I believe that thi | the first of your sex was ey sped “Yes, it was," caimly re | “ caim ‘eplied one of the Iacless hast from very much the same kind of a critter.’—Th Christian Herald. si ae _— a WHO WAS IT? | | HE kindergarten had been study -| | ing the wind all week—its power, offects, &c.—until the | subject had been pretty well ex-| hausted, To stimulate Interest the kindergartner said in her most en- thusiastic manner: “Children, as I came to school to-day in the trolley car the door opened and something came softly in and kissed me on the refully fold dotted line 1 oh lon under- surprising cheek. What do you think it was?” And the children joyfully an. ‘. eek, the condudtor | But I Tett You 1 pon'T ktouw HOW “To Back uP! \VE NEVER HAD “To BACK “THIS CAR AND I SHANT, BEGIN NOW — YOULL |} Weir. y{ SIMPLY HAVE To BACK Preseg® ours UP YOURSELF ! THAN “T DRIVE INTA THIS ALLEY + How CAN 1 Back UP WIT TREE CARS BEHINT ME? Cc ar. The “Reverse” Should Be the Easiest Gear for Women to Learn! By Vic | Copyright, 1911, Prose Publishing Co. (N.Y Evening Worl.) ; en _ =e Sl 27 LADY = wound Y MND LETTIN THAT BRAKE oF?