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and Players By BIDE DUDLEY SEF FYON HUR" seems destined to B live forever As a dramatic production. Klaw & bd laeper are announcing it ny begs ite twentieth season early in Octobwr, ing at the Lexingion ‘Theatre for an indefinite engagement. Scenery more elaborate than ever is being built for the show and a chorus of 300 is now being engaged. Twenty- five horses will be used in the chariot race scene. The Lexington, with its big atage, should be an ideal thin spec lar show. “Ben Hur first produced at the Broadway The- atre, New York, Nov. 29, 1499, Never haa there been a so-called second company in this country Kiaw & Mrianger once organized a@ special company to present the play at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, Now that the immediate future of “Ben, Hur’ has been arranged, what of ©. T, Dazey’s “In Old Kentucky"? Has | it finally quit? i TRY YOUR PIPES. | Wf you feel like singing in French on Bastille Day cut this out and go to it. It is “Viens la Bas,” the samo being a translation, by Irere Bordoni ot “Hitchy - Koo 1918," of “Over There.” ; faa 4a ton fusil, ton fasil, ton fusl ffeoie Siok teen ee a i cba ak rit eta sa retar, elt, Pea RR REFRAIN, Ia ban tai gare en soldatel tarder’ ae, viens la bas. fuelle nowba mon p'tit ware, nous nen doutons pas, ndras quavec ia victoire, o'ast-ce pas? 4a « 2A Wo os revmen TO REVIVE LIGHT OPERAS. John Philip Sousa, President of the Commonwealth Opera Associa- tion, announces that a public t- ing in behalf of the organization's plan to revive light operas will be held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at Aeolian Hall, The meeting will ratify the proposition, Raymond Hitchcock is Treasurer of the asso- ciation and De Wolf Hopper Is Vice President. Civic, social, musical and theatrical clubs are preparing to at- tend the meeting. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. He put his whole roll on a horse in a race that everyone figured to win. He'd secretly planned to get married next day, providing that bang-tall came in. His steed led the | bunch to the final eighth pole; then back in the ruck he was hurled, The man saw his money go floovy right there, and that was the end of the world. Another man called on a beautiful girl and told of a love fond and true She listened attentively 4 he was done, then smiled as all sweet maidens do. Said she: “It is time that a husband I had." ili» brain in real happiness whirled “And eo," she continued, “I'll macry | Bill Smith.” And that was the end of the world, Dear friend, as you read this brief ditty of mine, on this awfe! blow please reflect. Last night I played poker and held up four kings, a hand that should win, you'd expect. A player nearby dro rest of them out A flag of regret 1 unfurled, I won, but the playcr I beat was my wife. And that was the end of the world. THIS RIB ALL RIGHT. Eddie Dunn's broken rib has bi come patriotic. It has started to knit. Gossip. Lacie Lacoste is to act in @ play- let by herself. Alice Terry, concert singer, ts go ing into vaudeville. Antonio Cansino is coming from Spain to produce a Spanish revue here. Elisa and Eduardo Cansino will be in tt. “A Perfect Lady,” in which Rose Stahl acted, ix to be a film starring vehicle for Madge Kennedy. | Col. Lull and twenty-five members of Base Hospital Unit No. 35, just in from California, saw tting To- | gether” last night Gilda Leary has been engaged for Mother's rty Bond," which will be an early attraction at the Park ‘Theatre, THE POOR SOUTH! M. M. B. has sent us a poem on the literature of the South, This is how it concludes Alas for the Sout Bre vever was wu: ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. books hare grown fewer, nto literature, Dyer—See classified telephone for film studios M. G.—Write Bijou Fernandez, New Amsterdam Theatre Building IT DOES HER NO Goop. | Sr The people who are writing us To anonymously asking where a certain actress is playing, might as well quit ‘That's a cheap Way to try to get pub. Heity. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, Heck Turner, bell-hop at the Home Hotel, Wellsville, has got the whol town curious, He says there low stopping at the hotel who in pajamas, FOOLISHMENT. 1 knew & young woman named (lynn, Who was so exceedingly thin In each tango battle, Her bones wed to rattle, Creating & terrible din, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, wh Mose! He» long you in jail “Three weeks.” “What did you do?” “Jost killed ma wife." “An’ you only got three weeks?" Den dey gwin ter ( want A Jos i [ The STORE FoR a “ie SUMMER, ES / KHow ANYTHING G) ABout “Te > Capritaht, 1918 Pees PuOrIMNIND OREM. pntng Wola “sees JSUSINESS © j THE USE OF LAYING IN BED ALL DAY? GET UP AN ENJOY = MORNING AiR‘ S Aw LEMME ALONE ! 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