The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1917, Page 10

comic About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY Garde . follow “Tee Paswine fhoe t the bie Pifue nae theo - the otuced at tweny® nme W od Maret he priv MUBIC FOR SOLDIERS k director of the Hiy he instrument to F an@ Broad corps has ome of F Wie H. Tay! 4 the wig- wager arted it going 6Y WAY OF DIVERSION The man who sella insurance on the lives of other men, is certainly a who's hard to beat. Of persever he's enough for seven men, or ten, and never does he show a bit of heat He tracks me to my office and he tracks me to my home, and when I roar his answer is a smile, And flually he get# the thought imbedded a tiny dome that life insur ts worth while the Skookum bra the best he The o| kind. nen bY: around, 1 find he's changed hia He's with another company, and say the Skookum isn't half as good as that he now would place, By golly, he’s a we ler, anyway “THE BARTON MY8TERY.” The Messrs, Shubert have placed, in reioarsal a comedy drama called “Th. Barton Mystery.” Walter 11) ket wrote the play. It waa first teoduced by H, R. Irving at Savoy, London. A. EB, Anson will have the ehlef role in the New York | production, In the company also | will_be his father, George W. Anson, | ChaFlotte Granville, Mary Malleson and Henry 8, Stanford, COMMISSION FOR LEISER. Dr, Oscar L, Leiser, who attends many theatrical people when they aro i and who is official milan fer the Giants and the emplo; of the Hippodrome, has been given a com- mission as Captain in the Army Medical Corps and will go to France to serve with Pershing’s men, TO ENTERTAIN SAILORS. At the suggestion of the authorities of the Marine Hospital of the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, Mesarh. Dillingham and Ziegfeld have ar- ranged to send some of the principals of “Miss 1917" to that Institution to convalescents, Bessie Mo- Coy Davis and Ann Pennington will go over next week and dance. Harry Kelly and Lizzie, his fish hound, will also make the trip. + HER PLUCK WON OUT. Grace Valentine has at last found a part which sults her, She is a large portion of the show in “Lombardl, Ltd.” Miss Valentine's success is a result of pluck. She spent six years trying to convince New York man- agers she could act, Now most of them are saying they knew it all the time. GOSssiP. J. ©. Nugent has written a play | called “The Cynic.” Peter McCourt left this morning for Denver, W. B, Friedlander @ company to produ cal comedies. | Roger Dolan, a genuine old-timer, has retired from the stage and ts liv- | ing in Troy, N. ¥, Jules Delmar is putting on shows | at Fort Slocum for the soldiers. Tommy Gray is performing a like | incorpor: tabloid musi- ‘ Evening World Daily Magazi FAMILY This Gown Evidently Pot the “Mlaaie” a “Mininen” SSS SGom Gown? } \ (wv wor 6 PAGE THE BIG LITTLE — _ . "Perens Jou use Deer \ { wk Peuen & Love ‘ \ am mH eS Ss Yeo of Gee | v ue ¢ mun. “evened Gown ou out Ge oe me 116 Gomw — Gam ven! f, | | tuenet S Fras mdf Gown “Tee! ) ff tove wh nrrtane ) & ~ wa qe wes be ? ‘ ie: H oe. we an By Clifton Meek BACHELOR BILL Con vahe Wil, Prete Publiation Ge MeV. Bening Weray Now We Can Guess Why Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard Was Bare! oe * SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK”’ COOH eh 0 Pre NAR CTW Thing ene THIS GINK 1S ALWAYS "| THIS IS i" IN HIS FIRST ON TIME FOR HIS VEL Ger IS 8) (Le ae PAY DAY— PAY, BUT NEVER, HOME IN ON TIME FOR THIS BAG. COMEDIAN WAITING FOR. HIM OUTSIDE! "CAMOUFLAGE 5 Twrs weee = IT'S HIS THe eTENOG's UNTIL HE ees? GET'S HOME service at Mineola, Alan Schnebbe, Treasurer of the Hudson Theatre, has been drafted | and will report to Yaphank to-day Mme. Frances Alda will si the Hippodrome next Sunday evening for | the British and Canadian Recruiting | Mission, Grace George has nitial performance at ndefinitely Billie Burke will open in Kummer's new play, "The R Angel,” at the Hudson Th t bert Brenon, | postponed her | the Playhouse | Clare | operated on for 4 Nicttix, ix ‘re overing at the I raduate Hos. © first of “The ves” will taxe, pluce In Hartford n, On Oct. Raymond ‘Hitchcock announces that the National Prison A tion benefit, to be held at his theatre, has | heen’ postponed to Sunday evening, | Oct, 21 A woinan asked Jim Thornton $f he knew where the Y. M,C. A. was. He toid her he did not, but offered to @irect her to the D. L. & W. APPROPRIATE GIFTS. Loney Ha heen doing his ‘diers so mu . when be had » his wife gave him brushes and a pair | a Kunmetal | A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY A Chic man, who was arrested 1 a \ Mscharged by th The Judge gud he married FOOLISHMENT. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Why didn’t you tell me that ho: you sold me was blind ln one eye? by fellow who sold him to ition it and T thonght it * MOST FOLKS SMILE AT THE CASHIER. ON PAY DAY, BUT THAT DOESN'T OPEN HIS HEART ANY. IT'S MORE EFFECTNE TO SMILE AT THE GOSS. geo POP — a aa =F || married your grandmother,"—Har-| “Dead? Poor fellow! Joined the |aiong,” said the leader. “For instance, | court room, lifting chairs and look- | 7 ’ ~ ° per's Magazine, great majority, eh?” that big man over there is our biack-|ing under thin » ave + | aaa SR ES “Well,” said the man, cautiously, e man next to him is oun] ,,. TI he Day S Good Stories | - “I wouldn't like to say that, sir. He | bal dso on.” Young man,” Judge Gery called] MISSIONARIES. was 4 good enough man so far as [| “But,” sald the Engilahman, stbat out, "you are making a soy deal of marr . know."—Harper's Magazine, very old fellow-—surely he can't be| unnecessary noise. at are you WRIT in the Charity Or- b my WARTIME PORTIONS. us, walked out of the restau UTHER in th arly LOP ec insitus of much use to you about i stood im the doorway p ganization Review, depre- “Oh, yes he is," was the reply Your Honor,” replied the young He WO stenographers noticud | teeth | cating the way people talk EASILY SOLVED. andfather. We shall open , “EL have lost my overcoat and seule In a restaurant where| ‘phe ragged darky ste up tolof “the drab lives of the poor’ as HE banqueter Jet himself in y cemetery with him.”—Boston to find it."" _ they usually took thetr Jonch.| tho other, hesitated a moment, then | greatly a class misunderstanding, re- I fetally. abd than ke began’ tol scene said the Judge, “people A hing hie eahaat tana ae evidently losing bis nerve at the bos: | b 3 h ‘ —— often lose whole suits in here without OPS ORME DOF TEDRR > ORO OC ASM | te IRB DrOMD ve at the bow | peats a story of some t End girls growl and swear at a fearful | making all: that disturbance.”—The welghed herself, After dining, 8¥¢ | expression, asked tlnidly |(matchbox makers) who were taken] rate down in the hall CAN YOU BEAT IT? | Christian Herald, be 18 GOMER AGEN: | “Bay, bows, give us a toothpick, will/down to Surrey to spend a summer} “What's the matter?” called his NCE upon a time they published | i eggs AES 3 Foe That's funny, Maysle," she re- | yun?" |day in a beautiful house and garden| wife, | an order prohibiting gambling} ANYTHING TO BE RID OF HIM, marked to her friend, “I weigh al. The affluent son of Ham looked} eae cae ee the “ye a i ia’ Ming Ming, wo inmates ‘ s Pecan |his unfortunate brother over gcorn-|/ @ lovely part of the country. atter Ish,” the banqueter called} in ging Hing. Two Inmates LD Biffleigh, after thinking rue- “tinct 8 tulle BPEGUAE toh vo" went ete ee | hostess was wishing | back, “there's two hat ‘acks down | Tri° ter 'wore hailed to the court. fully of the gas and coal that They 4 i his a moment, and thoth jthem rpceey” none ae had here, and I--hie~dunno which t’hang|" “what's the charge?” asked the were being consumed down- t «explanation came to Mayle ee tala chietalre Mnnone | ices on Judge. . stairs, was just dropping off to sleep ts a Mt, Ethel,” she said. | guest ¥ , rfuli : His wife laughed and said in sooth “Alleged gambling,” said the dep-|~ a eetiaa te. a Weenie i i Dold’ welkhad more HISTORICAL DATA ‘I expect we have cheered you uP] ing tones hye when he was y the port of food you got ne EERO EES ck | Dit it imust be deadly dull down] “put, dear, you've got two hate.” “I thought all the cards, dice, gam-| noise from below. Reena Ne nad peer | here Christian Lig haven't you? Hang one on each | bling paraphernalia and’ such were} “ova,” he bellowed, making bis -> studying history ut @& short = ai, sea rack and come on up to bed, now | destroyed.” wa) ” y to the top of the stairs, “Rva! | time, thought he would give his ou're tired.”—London Opinion “They were,” answered the deputy, | ¥4 ay HAR POR IT grandfather a try-out on ry b GRORAVED GETTER, _ “but these two fellows were bettin’| What on earth 19 that howling go- COLORED man, ragged ond | posiathes 8) he mpb- WASHINGTON man, in motor- USEFUL ‘MAN on whether {t will rain to-day or) ing on down there?” lazy-looking, stood gaging /4#0t and asked ; ing through Virginia, stopped A Q not.""—-Star of Hope. “Howling, pal” came in shocked | hungrily into the window of a jay, Gramp, what great war broke one day at a@ toll bridge he OMe years ago an Englishman ee apes “Why, it's Mr, Chuffer #ing-| Cut out the picture on all |cheap restaurant where a white-clad | out in 16607" had often passed over and found S met @ party of American set- A SUITABLE REBUKE. ‘Love me and the world Is mine,’ "| sides. *Then carefully fold cook was deftly tossing flapjacke and The old gentleman laid down his there was a new keeper in charge. soodnesn, sale, love him,’ Ti line 1 iv entire yong it y See ae urn OT " Surprising real, “™" %° l trying exes. A long time the negro| Paper and looked thoughtfully at the looked, thoughtfully, boy for a moment, and then a sudden Presently another colored man, evte | I! ned upon him. ‘ t di denUy more industrious and pruspers! “Why,” he said, “that wes the year ff Wigs . got into conversation with the leader,| | goes, while trying a case was|srowied Biffelgh, end preps the an eminently practical man. disturbed by & young. man who! ettte’ is propesty,"-Onloage Lede “We enly brought useful people kept moving about in'the rear of the ger, e - aero “Where's the man who used to act an keeper here?” asked the motorlt. “He's dead, alr,” wae the reply, uers journeying westward and J’ GARY of Chicago, the story %