The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1918, Page 20

iy COMIC PAGE. Lp K Wednesday, June 5, 1918 Pp / a Yj ry i ay» a Wa edt, ei emi MAO w No i Dont LiKe ‘THis = SHow MG SOMETHING ELSE jo en If She Can Have It for a Penny, Why Not? . insinuate C wear spo You want - ( WOULD You eke Thr WHOLE WORLE . WITH A RED FENCE 4 AROUND IT = CASANT ~Oo Maker oP ‘fouR Minn — Dou ) ( “nk I can rane ( ALL Day “35 sHow YOU Penny Tors 2 ee all HE Increase in railroad rates, which is due soon, is proving &@ source of much worry to the theatrical managers. They cannot ree how the majority of the road pro- ductions can survive under the terms of the new tariff. To dincuss the ait- uation the Theatrical Managers’ Pro- tective Association held a meeting yesterday, over which Mare Kiaw pre- sided. The attendance wai large. After an inform: of the situation, Lee Shubert made @ motion that a committees be named to go to Washington and take the matter up with Secretary McAdoo, The motion was adopted. The com mittee will be named this week and will visit Mr. McAdoo at his earliest convenience. H BROOKE REDUCES WEIGHT. ‘While in the cast of “fo Long, latty” Tyler Brooke sported what he called a mustache, Will, Rowers met | ; 5 bie ta Detrolt and tole He tae; LHe BIG LITTLE FAMILY and noticed that the mustache was gone. The cowboy-comedian grinned = “Whatcha ben doin’, ‘yler,” e |} ‘a> wor X Gap ae F per’ yt : sarc tenemae na “WW "MANS WoRUD WHY THIS PAPER TOPER JOE SPEAKS UP. -ER = wor GETS MY Gort TH BINO-A WI IN welt ‘ “Give us back the good old day Have I ‘DONE Raw DEAL THEY SLIP ly ut yer : DAWGONIT. s she sank upon the stage, | Thoue 6 N-NOW. DEAR “TH Poor DEFENSELESS ‘ORMOSA GooD WIFE was “two years he : Show her ge, She sang it o'er and ? e WEAKER @EX # ' o’er again and made a good-sized bit, but out in front sat Toper Joe, and he just had a fit. The town was “dry” and Joe waa sore. His nose was still quite red. Hed vowed if booze were kept from him he'd quit the old town dead. Joe rose and said: “You got It right in forty diffrent ways. They ought to pass a law to give us back ‘the good old daze.” | BILL, HE CAME HOME. ‘William (Bill) Batley, film actor and| director, has returned from Ithaca where he acted in a picture called | “The Eagle's Bye.” Now, Bill's wife is known pfofeasionally as Polly Van, | she likes Bill, Well, Bill thought changed his mind. telegram from Polly ht. “After that I couldn't . Herds the wire. Read read “Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?” G 3RINDSTONE IRGE CONSERVING TALENT. | i GEORGE ‘This seems to be the season for H-cast stage attractions. Several | go A. H. Woods launched a play with but two players in tt—| Shelley Hull and Effie Shannon. Bach | “doubles,” however, making four parts in the preety which i known as “My Boy.” low comes Selwyn & Co, with Rot Cooper finishing hi ~ > . COTRE HE Pree Povey fA oT Ormiy Bee) PUD. > What He Should Have Used Is a Stone Crusher! “NOBODY DOES IT (Send a Nobody’ to “Grindstone George) COMYTEML 118, Preee Publishing Co. || (N.Y. Bvening Werld.) Megrue's comedy, “Tea for Three,” which has but three roles in tt. This Ha Gute the play, which opened in Washington Monday night, ae 8 cost made up of | bone from the Arthur Byron, ‘rederic! erry ani | Margaret Lawrence. They do not! meat before he weighs it. “doub! It is predicted that before | another year passes some manager will stage a play with but one person | jm the cast. | HART PUTS ONE OVER. | Down tn Spartanburg are some boys from New York's theatrical district who got ® lot of fun out of entertain. ing their camp mates with show BM! Hart engineered an affair of th sort the other night and ft made a hit. Among those who participated | were Lew Brice, Irving Glick, John | Miller, Buddie Doyle, Herbie Steiner, Jerry Jarnogen and Jack Weesele. Immediately after the performance Jt. . Crane beat it to the camp's Y. M. | C. A. writing room and notified this cotum: a “Tell ‘em about the show,” he ‘writes, “and make some of those New York producing managers jealous.” es | ; THE TEA HOARDER. IR PREDERICK E, SMITH was discoursing at 4 New York n the food hoarder, rder in a ure bird in § en found, 5 thant is £10 fine and £60 costs, Englishman is a detective ‘sf hoarcor is concerned, Uy of a chap in a West End club, who suid to another; spent all the morning in « tea Most exhausting, I assure Joe Keeps a Business Appointment—Yes > SoRRY “TO KEEP YOU WAITING, BUT DAWGONNIT — 1 LEFT UT TO MY WIEE TO HAVE Gas PuT IN MY CAR, AN ~--- will be played for men in uniform Sunday night. Bophié Tucker und Paisley Noon are einging Alex Sullivan's song, “At tho Coffee Cooler's Tea.” ‘Twelve hundred army officers and enlisted men will attend the dress re- of “Hitchy Koo 1918" at the fihobe torment. Q \ Manager Edel of the Strand was host at that theatre yesterday to a ‘umtt of Red Cross nurses en route to ‘The original “Maytime” com; wil see the Chicago “Mayttme oom ee REY, youn at the Broadhurst Theatre| @ —_/ ‘The engagement of “Biff Bang” at ‘ the Centu: has been extended until Satumiay night. The Saturday mati- nee will be an Actors’ Fund benefit. Beginning Friday night pictures showing the Itall Grenadiers will be exhibited in connection with “Per. | hing’s Crusaders” at the Lyric Aubrey M. Kennedy ts to direct the ITS LUCKY 1 ASKED BLANCH TO HAVE GAS PUT IN THE Car OUERWISE I'D BE LATE TH MEET “THis MAN! I do better than that,’ said cond chap, with a laugh be “Come, come,’ suid the first eh; 4 othing dois without the queue.’ ihe wecond chap laughed aguin, he tea queue for soine," ‘and for others the q t.’ bid tai nd he walked off, still lau but tho next day they’ nvuled Mea ae for hoarding and his tt tnd costs Jcame to £ —Washington nicture shows and band concerts of the Wiest Wield Artillery Saturday aud | a Sunday nights at the Armory, Broad way and 69th Street | ! GOOD GUESs. John Kearney, who impersonates! 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K.—Edouard Jose played the role | HE El INNOY with: sao. > is ny to take ehpeict ote ey lid al ; WAGINABLE, ENDS Uppy” AER WORRYING? |} GER RAH | Known, (Oo cor ae rege pe atte easy'e awl Harper—They probably do, after GNING You NOTHING Bo Geene SB HE TOLD ME oe J | iory IN! AS IT ONE OF Those ‘SELF- finishing the Keith ctreuit | QUAR’ : T eeT USSIE GOSSIP, d ¢ Stoppers” Metazer- You might. show it to A TRS "WHEN ae aval GLOOM) man ese ANA ° AIS Goat's Meyer Cohen, Aetor Theatre Build. | f, Your Lor oN ENTIRE, ing. y Nt NERVE!) aaa LY Go NEP a OUGHT FOR TO-DAY. 5 "Hono pow automobile | “5 ALSO WILUE yesterday e WITH His. . QUESTIONS jeorge Brown, thampion Walker.” ¢ FOOLISHMENT. A CASCO-2% in CLYDE -2% in, ARROW COLLARS. | THE IGHT wilog ber, f od goeh ding hert | Piles i fe hi k , aoe ROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Asylum Keeper (to inmate) ~Hey, | what are you beating your head “oe that wall for? ate--Because it feels n I stop, ens BUT HE'S Not GOING ‘To GET