The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1918, Page 18

i LLL A A ee ee ‘and Players By BIDE DUDLEY HE Red Cross "Out There” All- Star Company, which closed its tour Saturday night in Pi » Played to @ total of $683,248, eompletely shattering al! existing rec- OF44 for large theatrical receipts. The thtal expense connected with the tour Was about $12,000, most of which went for railroad fare. No salaries wero paid and. all the members of the troupe met their own hotel expenses, &o. The gross receipts at the Nixon Theatre, Pitteburgh, Saturday night Were $129.7, which sum bas never been realized before from a single theatrical performance. The largest @mount paid for an autographed pro- me of the play was This was bid in the auctic Pittaburgh. A St. Louis m: $16,850 for the programme auctic in his home city, A week ago it wa estimated in this column that th rr Cross receive about $850,000 as a res the tour, It will Feceive about 100. Not a bad| Guess, say we, very modestly. d | PLACING WOODS PLAYS. =| It has been settled, virtually, that! the Hudson Theatre will be opened for the coming season, about tho Middle of August, with the A. Hf Woods production of the Samuel Shipman - Hoffman play “Friendly E in which La Mann and breaking j atre, Chicago, Mr. Woods will 1 m the now season at the BE) here with “My Hoy,” in which Shannon and She! Hull constitute | <no entire cast, “Business Befor Pleasure,” with Barney Bernard and Alexander Corr in the chief roles, Will be sent to the Woods Theatre, Chicago. TO OPPOSE “SPECS.” The Bureau of Public Information which is sponsoring the official Gov- ernment film, shing’s Cruse det at the Lyric Theatre, has no- tified the ticket brokers that specu- lating in seats for this attractioa must cease. It is announced that im- mediate and forceful steps will be taken to cut out sidewalk sales and other forms of speculation. TO ACT IN PLAYLETS. Edith Taljaferro is to appear in the musical playlet, “The Best Sell- | era,” which the Actors and Authors | Theatre will offer at the Fulton be- ginning Monday night. In another ylet, called “Nocturne,” Minnio | pre will be prominently cast, while | Harrison Brookbank, Hal Forde, Harold Fowler and Rene Dietling will act in “The Rejuvenation,” and Mr. Whitford Kane, Elisabeth Risdon and Mrs. Thomas A. Wise will have | ts in “Muggins.” Dudley Oatman now the organization's business | manager and Helen Avery Hardy ite ress representative, They are volun- for workers. } BY WAY OF DIVERSION, | ‘The heat of summer gets my goat find makes my collar, at my throat, Become as limp as string. The per- spiration oozes out e'en though I'm anything but stou id handker- ehiefs 1 wring. Dis irt's min n't deny and yet you'll sel¢ ar me six jaintain melted eer, because I know the summes at has brought the watermelon gWeet and cantaloups are here. The Winter has its buckwheat cakes which, by the everlasting snakes, | Hh gs BoM eat when n. It also has its pumpkin p: which I'd almost steal or lie~a great dessert for man while this may evoke surprise Pin happitst ‘neath summer skies for then | h water loup: hot days bring me joy, this hungry human race w melon feeds its face and oh, boy! NO KISSES FOR LONEY. Blossom Se and Loney Haskell, while at the Orpheum in Denver re- Gently, offered to sell kisses for the | Denefit of the Red Cross, Blossom, Loney writes, did very well, but the people who responded to his appeal) for funds declined to accept the pun- | ishment. GOSSIP. Whiting and Burt, in “song thgs,” will join “The Midnight Frol.c" | Monday Katherine ‘art has been engaged by Adolph ver for “Helen With the High } . George Ti is mourning the loss @f Anzac Jack, his Australian terrier. | AD outo killed Jack at Westport, Conn It in enid the “Hitcly Koo 1918" chorus displays more dimples th Broadway ever saw in one ¢ fore. we th Wedding anni ryn © wilt ce Jooks it, but b doesn't | Si Prell was » ut Wagenbals & Kemper's office yesterday, “Going back 'n the show business, friend asked. “Wal, mebbe!” $1, who always was conservative in hie statements, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. After sel span of mu day last week Erza Hoskins of emoked a -cent cigar, and ig known all over Tullp as ¢ joskins, FOOLISHMENT. from the town of Oshkonb, nothing tnt tab. Mt shocked ber big brother kewise ber tother Wo threw ww ber bands and yelled FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Little Girl (on street)—Mamma, I feel a bug on my nec Newsboy—E iner! Gott" xaminert CLEAN YOUR SYSTEM with BRADFORD'S BLOOD PURIFYING PILLS of Mon. Id tKxe TS MAKe Sone SHER ARRANGEMENT Wht You ABouT AVING MY ANDS CLEAN JOE’S CAR Coprright. WIE. 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