The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1917, Page 18

COMIC PAGE | About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY | Norworth & Shannon's chum- my musical revue, “Odds and Ends of 1917," shall go into the new Norworth Theatre, in West 48th Street, on Nov. 19. Broad- Way has heard much of this show, one reason being that it has been playing to capacity business for several weeks | on the road without a New York rep-/ utation. Heading the cast are Harry Watson jr., Lillian Lorraine and Jack | Norworth. Half a dozen theatres have | deen offered Norworth & Shannon for this attraction, but they have pre- ferred to wait for the Norworth to be completed. The firm is assured tho house will be ready on Nov. 19. Axsother opening just announced is / ot ‘iawn. Childs Carpenter's com~ "which will go | ii has been definitely decided that) day *vening. Selwyn & Co, are the Featured in the cast are Beecher and Norman Trevor. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Thanksgiving Day is coming, and not so far away. ‘Moat all of us offer thanks for blessings on that , But over on the other side, men are out to kill, there lives whose thanks will be @ joke— he’s Kalser Bill, He'll bow his head and have his say. It ought to sound this: “Oh, Sire, I offer thanks to- for ware infernal hiss, It's me joy to see men die before | awful hate, I thank you for the here. For me tk ‘s simply To make it right his words be add: to Nick, below, he is Satan's y man, in charge ‘wos. ving Day is and it’s not.#o faraway. Oh, that Bull could thank old Nick person on that day WARGENTINA TO DANCE. vem @ noted Spanish classic gee ae Joy,” whieh will open at the Park tre to-night, She has been danc- in various cities of the United and Canada for a year. Her appearance in this country was Barts private performance of the Col- ib in le -| TO HIRE FIGHTERS’ ‘WIVES. \The children’s 1-cent war tax on tickets is going to cause a lot extra work at the theatres, espe- ly at the Hippodrome, which is y thousands of youngsters A the big playhouse the’ 10 ‘cont. tax will be charged when ticket Is bought, and the children JT abe) refund checks which will their tax money back for thom, all thelcent. To die these checks Banrtes Dillingham is to establish ths in various parts of the house. jive women will be employed to charge of the booths, and Mr. has decided to engago of men enlisted in the Govern- it's fighting forces. They should ly by to Arthur Flohr, the TO PLAY “THE TRIUMPH.” Mrs. Josephine Turck Baker has written a play called “The Trium which will be presented at the War- burton Theatre, Yonkers, Thursday evening, with a good cast headed by Katherine Byron and Goldwin Pat- It tells a story of Napoleon, Seeaeritx Warde will do the prologue epilogue. aul IN TO OFFICIATE. Jack G! mae will be master of core- monies beth’s Greatest paw 4g to be mold fn te the Second Regt- lzabeth, N. J. Fri- Soy night. vaaking ail his fri oe ee ee ae 'y tales to detween ac Gossip. Business is eo good at the Colum- Bar anrt » reves wow Papee-tae been 0) iva H. Karper and H. fFietcher Rivers are producing a new miniature musical comedy for vaudeville. 1 Jack Jahbrmarkt has resigned as Joffice assistant to Walter Kingsley at the Palace. “The Drawing of the Sword,” from the Rosemary Pageant, will be a fea- ture of the naval show at the Hip- podrome Bunday evening. A new actor from France will make his American debut in “Service,” under the management of Harrison Fiske and Madison Corey. He rges Flateau. After the performance of “Cheer Up” to-nigtrt the girls of the water spectacle are to have a Halloween party in the Hippodrome’s big pool. be dive for apples and every- thing. A number of ministers of the Gos- pel were the guests of A. H. Woods ut the performance of “On With the Bance,” at the Republic last night. Others will attend to-night. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Charles Porter is the porter at the Porter House, Porter, FOOLISHMENT. | ‘The rain beets down will, the window ind ‘the earth it looks: pretty Gemgone hil), i eg st at fod say ae my face , white: | Tike iy love Alt out Toole FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Why are a smoker's pipes hum- bugs?” “1 give it up.” “Because the bet LiverTo Wake It Up re mere #haas.” orpid? taps It Stimulates the Liver to a Bile the Necessary which Acts as an Intestinal ae cenles Tonic, and nora Bowel Layonet drill, éc., takes hold “nothing to do.) (BITING the stem of his pipe)— Gee, 1 wish there was a live THE BIG LITTLE TDW Drocearce HER- AN’ SHE DAD NOT “TO ‘Do 17 AGAIN "cause IT MADE HER Soret ~ TRYING Fvening World Daily Magazine FAMILY WELL SES WAH Me SUP “THAT BIG BIRD “TH’ GATE ~AN’ SHE WONT COME BACK CNermen! a a 7 Sometdine DIFFEREN FROM oTHers oF ITs KIND NOTHING Gb3 & IN THE WORKD) ' HAY HE'S OH. Look ! aa uc AoNTIE_ BIT BIT! DARLING INTO Re : = GETS AN APPLE ON TH J STRING , AND HIS \. BEST To KEEP Camp oR ys Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The N C omedies Alma Woodward. York Evening World) THE LEADING MAN. SCENE: Camp Mills. TIME: Afternoon. (The ennui that follows wire in the crowd, This con- B (yawning)—Aw, take a nap! Act like you're used to taking @ slesta al fresco every day—I guess that's bad on foreign gab, eh? All your life you've heard about the leisure of the Army. Well, this ts it! Sniff itt C (who has a most caressing lisp)— I know what'th letth do! B (seeing trouble coming close)— Bigdie, I'll bet you were master of ¢ hours’ trench digging, setting-up exercises, | ome boys. They peevishly face an hour with ceremonies at every strawberry fes-| tval in Perkins Falls! A (heading off @ collision) What | gregation acts as though it's been fed| do you suggest, Birdie? hookworms and soothing syrup. Can't some one suggest Something to do? C (enthusiasm crushed)—Of courth, if people are going to make re-| markth A (soothingly)—No one's going to make remarks, Birdie, Speak up— what were you going to suggest? © (cheered to nonmal)—I wath go- ing to thay—juth for fun, leth act out @ moving picture, {can be the lead- ing man and——~ ®B (who can't down his lisp-antago- WéT, ARRANC —E SOUVE MADE FoR 5 LM Removal. a; "ANS WoT » SAID - our, Sh Ns i} oS = Kye aS be the camera man. > (plaintively)—No, I want to be the leading man, There ithn’t any B (grinning grimly)—I know—that's » director— | ardor) rector | Pershing — © (compl reel? You you'll be the camera man here will write the scenario and the Anderson, tap y matter and let us have a A (thinking hard) B (melodramatically) A (striking an attitude) The name! (openly disgusted) a problem play. I ask a whether liverwurst isn't the gravest Who knows guess what goes into the Who indeed? But on Where does problem life affords. with the plot, Anderson, the patriotism come in? A (in hushed accents) Evidently Her Rolling Pin Gathers No Moss! MENTS | BOYS Blow THAT CANDLE OUT OVER HER. SHOULDER. AND WHEN SHE SEES THROWING AN APPLE PEEL. OVER, HER. SHOULDER « MAN SHE'S TO MARRY } WELL \T Took SIX Cops’ “to GtT ie OUT OF Me ARRANGE MENTS!) \NoT DYE \\ i) ba WHATEVER. LETTER. IT FORMS 13 THE INITIAL, OF THE The National Bath Nights Include 52 Saturdays and Hallowe'en! ooneale 1019 reas (wo HERE'S A CHANCE SHE'S RUNNING AROUND THE BLOCK WITH A MOUTH FULL OF WATER, THE FIRST MAN SHE MEETS IS HER RE HUBBY! Des GOIN’ TO WEAR OUT ALOT OF SHOELEATHER. aN if TAKE THAT THING : OUTTA THE HOUSE sui YOU NEARLY ane By pal pesomeres Por, THATS THe WAY Deserise THA BATSY , is (NO! How 00 YSU \ MAKE a PUMPKIN CuT THE ae awit INSIDES OUT om | s AND MAKE IT. ony JACK O LANTERN —e { ‘EM ARE OTL IN HH rn 5 EEE: | "HOLLOW"! ANU ih ) gy LAS ae, tT wit Aer Gane TSANeE “ers lf HASN'T S\G Host oF A 00) Saece Yes, Anderson “The Lay} dipping patriotic | says: "I" for the cemet re Then he neatly The Lay of] ay an hors d'oeuvre for the s that dothn't] "Chorus (eagerly)—Fine! ¢ B (looking wround)—The qu It isn't saphead-—tt’s| ts, who shall play the Kaiser, Who |1 of You] way it that was crying to be the lead- ‘The main were nism)—Leading man nothing! Yow Mver—liver wuret—in the world? Who but the Kaiser! If he were robbed of his liver, the Prussian dynasty would lose its billousness forever. B Serapoltes him by the wrist)— A (getting wildly excited at his own ning mildly)—The lath | dn't say anything about | the firth reel—where'th the—— B (jumping on him)—Suftt Who ever heard of the camera | man criticising the scenario? Pro- By George —1| ceed, Anderson, you! both watching the | slice your symmetry course—it was you, Birdie! You shail play the Kaiser! You've got a lisp and a liver and everything! Cc (makin, he goes)’ going to do it wrong—whenever the worst I thend out @ thought It cometh back Bopble. and otingth me! cams to please the Junk mem tracks and walling as I. 3 omthings told me ‘ou | pl called “Two Tons of Iron." Wer > “Heavy drama, Td imagine,” said said the boy, last reel, General The Office Force By Bide Dudley _ at Deauville, and th my scimitar!” | Boss. arves out * Copyright, 1017, by the [ress Publishing Co, (The Clerk,) anyway,” suggested Miss Tillte. “The leading character is a woman wtnat| ¥ who refuses to speak to her husband OPPLE, dropped his newspaper. ent for | by this paper,” the Government is asking the "people| not to waste wood.” (breathlessly)-—In the last reel] “You want to be careful not to use Pershing goes up to Bill Kaiser | your head too mus h,’ Office Boy, grinning pA is “Oh, for the land's dake!" chuckled H wrong Miss Primm, Private Secretary to the \" much, do you insinuating that I'm aj ” Popple demanded of the; “Listen, ing man a minute ago? Why, of|mild little Book of scrapping? ject and see it more pleasantly wright jast night can't get along Mr, I dined with a play- He's writing a Bobble,” “Don't let him hear you say that,” * York Evening World). for @ month," “Why didn’t your friend call it Happy Husband?" asked Bobbi ‘The “Right here,” said Miss Primm, frowning, “l want to say that the impression that women talk too much il wrong. Now, I don't say very “And I agree with you, Miss| “Why not?” “Because he'd never go away.” “Pooh!” said Popple, looking for another Job. Mr. Snooks, the Boss, came then. “Good morning, wood.” suid Miss Primm sweetly, “Indeed you don't.” said aobbie, “Of se I don't J “But you talk a lot.” jing to Pt ittsb urgh to-morrow Pry Miss Primm turned on him with| © ” sald satan we In her eye, “Look here, you little tdiot!” she snapped. “You're Here Popple Ye bie a look full of meaning, ai ‘opple?” “Good! As a reward 'm fake him with me and pay penses,” ‘. By Jack Callahan 1KNOW A GOOD] GRANDPA DUCKS GAME TO PLAY.! FoR HIS BUT You Do APPLES IN away soon, You might as | said. “We've got to use fewer lead pencils here. The Government wants us to cut down on the consumption of “We were just discussing that ab. ject a few moments ago, Mr. Snookm: “Yes,” suid Bobbie, that joke you told me a while | mean that one about Popple net na ing his so much." "Yo It's 4 good one, isn't It, By the way, I'ng days. Mr, Popple, ree of the omee for “And now I've got a surprise -' Primm," said Popple. “The next time | ¥ou all," continued the Boss. Snooks goes out of town and ‘What is it?” asked Miss Prim, leaves me in charge here I'll fire na faithful y: