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COMIC PAGE Wednesday, June 26, 1918 About Plays, and Players WELL OLD MRS SMITIt ISNT USING. ( ITS A LADY WouLD NT DRINK ouT OF A PAIL wily p ‘= EE Sie ee aire i DRINK ) OF “THAT * - BELONGS 16 sin ae 1 play cated “The Jack Built” bas 3. been acquired by Klaw & Er- 3 r presentation season. is by Edward Childs Car ¥ au of "The Cinderetia : and the music is by Victor bert. Klaw & Erlanger plan to stage it in an elaborate manner. A HARROWING EXPERIENCE. We were stuck in an elevator in a@ 424 Street building half an hour yes terday. A fuse or hing blew out Finally wo told the building's electrician that if he didn't release | Us in time to writo this column thou- | gands and thousands of people would mob him. Naturally ho became frigbt- ened, procured another fuse or somo- | thing, and fed it to the blamed lift It @id the work. Moral—Never enter an elevator without a supply of fuses or some- thing, FILS FOR ANNA CASE. | nna Case, grand opera prima! . @onna, is the latest musical artist of | note to Hsten to the lure of film money and decide to collect. It is an- mounced she will make her debut in the movies in a picture called “The Gelden Hope,” under the direction of Julius Steger. The International will make the picture. MITZI WANTS TO FEESH. Mitzi (whe doesn’t use “Hajos” any mrore) has notified her manager, Hen- ry W. Sauvage, that she wants to go Dohing. “Dear Mr. Savage,” her letter goos, “I want to catch ze skinny tribe ‘Won't we please take a leetle vaca- tion? I haf @ nice beeg worm to put 4n ze feesh’s mouth.” ‘Accordingly, Mr. Savage has ar- Tanged to close Mitzi's starring ve- hicle, “Head Over Heels,” at the Tre- mont Theatre, Boston, Saturday night The piece will resume there July 29. DEVEREUX RETURNS. William Devereux, an English ac- tor, seen ast season in “A Successful Calamity,” who sailed for England immediately upon hearing that a call for men up to fifty years of age had been issued for wat work, has re- turned to New York. The Govern- IM Lookin’ FoR MONEY # SH-H-H! DoNT Move oR TLL SHooT ¢ TLL Be ABLE “0 FIND OUT WHERE TH WIFE HIDES IT ment did not require his services. Mr. x Devereux says that Robert Lorraine, also an actor, had himself reduced in rank from Colonel to Major #o ho a gould get some actual fighting in the & British Aerial Corps. England has a 4 rule that no one above the rank of Major shall take part tn the real fighting in this branch of the service. SHE LIKED THE TEA. n W. Hirst, who sees aft the that go to Chicago, his home is in New York, visiting his mother, who is ninety-two years old. Sunday he took her to Long Beach, where they had a shore dinner. The old lady had an amazing appetite and ate ten varicties of seafood, en- jJoying it immensely. Ghe concluded with a cup of tea. Mr. Hirst was startled by bis mother’s fondness for food. On the way back home he re- marked that the dinner was rather an elaborate one “My!” said the old lady with a igh of contentment, “How I did en- Joy that cup of tea!” “ANNABELLE SIMPSON.” Once in a while wo find tn our maf J a song tyric that is really good. A “Brookiyn young man has sent us one which has the stuff in it that makes gongs popular. It is called ‘Alone in the City.” Get it Beeet little Anoabelle Simpaon, | X trail tiie conntey to, the, “NOBODY DOES IT” (Send a Nobody" to Grindstone Ceorgey He succeeds In Opening a Fp Window Z on the | a eee NOW FRom ye Geo. Avison Norwalk Conn ¢ LES’S MANOEUVRE, RY, I've come to see your 4 4 hi b | “ % A proundrel met her on way, | sh pte ‘ awh ih ‘ a5, LS" aac. | DAWGONNE vt! WHATS BECOME. i SHE'S PROBABLY POT 'EM ee ce oo aw atnoraper ai cHoRvs, OF “THOSE OLD KHAKI PANTS AWAY SOMEWHERE « “THREE. PAIRS OF “THESE FLANNELS “But, my*dear, she will offend your esthetic sense!” protested Mickles. T-USED “To HavE ? “hey'RE yaa ' ? Whey'RE Just ILL QUESTION HER! F FOR You To WEAR ON “THE “Tete! | ad Nev WHAT T.@oTTA HAVE FoR “HE ‘She's a sight, I told you she was al Hig) CORR = Sumer’ To knock Nov. Just LOOK STUNNING! wer inal te sist on wec 1 Woo wished he wan tome or deed, heel AROUND IN! Vaneueieaions “Very well, bu Behe ty bap sy Gossip. \ Tansee tp etter: 12s very tama Josephine Rhodes is in from Mon-| fj celling o. gern iggum can- | Denciia and must get ose? Head foe, N. Y. Charles Murray, dramatic editor of the Buffalo Commercial, is looking a not wait a second,” | ‘Just as you say, my dea: your bat isn’t on straight, ‘Theres Broadway over. ele Bg ge Rone Blass over there in the corners tbe Colonial, Baltimore, for seek. ee ey ai ee fix it Iu be , Goorg A a og manager of, | ie ant she went over to the giags to a St. a raighten her hat, and i New York visitor. | a her bat, n the halt Margot Kelly has been engaged for hour it took ‘© do \t, Mickles had c Hy bas bere, ae {let bis beau new ‘stenograph, TA t aad will jout the win on an improvised ny Monday rope ladder, and hauled up « fright, has been engaged fully homely one for whom he had ubert for the lead telephoned to the employment by py ve i rhe Passing | reau.—Detroit Free Prose. Show of 1918." | —_—>—_—. A M. 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