The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1918, Page 14

COMIC PAGE Monday; July 22, 1918 | Bobbie “Caught”? Something Else, Too! : On=H-H -A-H -H VELL, DID ou tr — = = a and Players WHAT 'S Tite MATTER FAL. Down og atacing. “Tens [ween I cavetT ) F OF Your KYE 2 Bown Dip nT By BIDE DUDLEY ICK LITTLE, tht long, lean and ianky Chicago dramatio PUTTY ETT ” oritic, formerty on the Herald, frow doing Y. M. C. A. work abroad, ie ‘arrived in New York yosterday on 4 im ¢ @ecial mission. At the Hotel Astor t fast night he spoke of things theatri- ei in France, that is, relative to the entertainment of the American sol- diers. | “The boys want just what 130) majority of people here want in tie way of entertainment,” he said, “They want the popular stuff and the Jazz. There is no market for high-! brow entertainment over there, Elsio Janis came over and made the hit of her life, She didn't attempt to play Shakespeare; she sang ump-pab songs and danced. The boys went wid over her. The Y. M. C. A 1s be- ginning to realize that the soldiers do not want the classical stuff and from now on you'll likely see more of the ragtime entertainers going over. We have college professors appeart' g before tho boys, and they listen re- ' @pectfully to them. But let some per- former wing a new populur song and tell some good stories and the boys © wild.” Mr. Little will sal) for France again im about a week, He intends to take along all the latest popular music he can get. — iW] OUR MISTAKE. We feared it. We racked our brain to prevent it, but it happened just, the same. As a result we've made| @ frightful mistake. The other day a WHY — { in wah Vani inn. Now-EsseNTIAL INpusTRIEs GREAT SKY, “THE BIRDS, ' THE. Hum oF “THE BEES ~ - __No. a+3=8. (T's ALL SO WONDERFUL! / ON THE LEVEL AL, YoU NEED i, A REST! ¥'LOOK ASIF You'D DROP DEAD ANY MINE! cock was the only star playing in the Broadway district. So far as we could remember he was. So we print- ed the fact. We were wrong and we mit it in ash-cloth and sackshes. anche Gates, one of the American stage's foremost stars, and Holbrook Blinn, another real star, are in “Get- ting Together” at the Shubert The- atre, and yet we went right ahead and said Mr. Hitchcock was the only star playing in the district. Our apol- ogies to Mr. Blinn, Miss Bates, Mr. Bates (George Creel) and the Bates baby! And now to square ourself for- ever! We think Miss Bates and Mr. Blinn are doing some wonderful act- ing in “Getting Together.” COTTAM. INE Prose Pvbteteng CO OH. T. Brening Sori.) AS TO GEORGE CREEL. @peaking of George Creel, who is more or on in baw "tes it? these * days, perhaps you'd like to have a| S 10 - — epee OM! SING A close-up of him, dear reader. The ‘i writer of this delicious column work-| . Y HEARD YOU SINGIN’ ed in the ame d with Mr.| & ROOM * Pave! LITTLE “UNK'-SES Grecl_ on. the Denver Fost for more (pl veka To KILL Time! ‘You HAVE A than a year. Prior to that we knew . : _— Ba. We cies aiinesek nie weading \KE wes? WN epee soir ; WEAPON ? reception and did the one-step better| i ae Pp than he did with his own bride. 30 F Oy Ot pa ee ae 5 4 you see wo know him pretty well, we| fi. ” 40, George Cree! is first of all a hustler, He may be wrong once In @ while, but he finds it out after he had gone through witb his proposi- tion, His energy is marvellous, Tel! him to jump over Pike's Peak and before you can catch him he's Jump- ing. More than half the time he's right, but right or wrong, he puts it through believing he's right. Mr. Creel was called on once to write a criticism of a vaudeville show in Denver. He wrote it, incidentally stating that a certain actor was punk, The actor read the paper con- taining the criticism and e next day went around saying he'd liké to Knock th critic's head off, } { ‘ j f ) | Somebody, we think it was Otto | i } | ; f ' } | press agent told us Raymond Hitch- é A a a Floto, heard him and told Mr. Creel. | "Phe latter left the Denver Post Build- ing on the run and five minutes later re the actor up. paeinet the vel at Majestic tre ordering him to Ik OR ah hl dine on ‘his words, ‘The actor ate NE GEORGE jously. e Creel is energetic, | ar iit ; ved Re gghn ts he nga. | SConyriagnt, 1918, Drea reetienng co] Y Evening World France he'd probably try to capture the Kaiser single-handed. And if he ever did get near enough to Bill jue’ likely give him a swift kick and insist that he eay “Uncle.” Just Like the Last “German Drive,” Eh? ow “NOBODY DOES IT" (Send a Nobody" to Grindstone George) He cooks his own meals when his wife is away. “BLUE PEARL,” AUG. 5. John D. O'Hara is to haye a com- edy part in “The Blue Pearl,” which | opens at the Longacre ‘Theatre Aug. &. Olive May will be in the cast also. SHE DIDN'T KNOW. | He stepped in an elevator in the Longacre Building and noticed a young woman was the pilot “Bay, lady,” he said, “on what floor is D. W. Grifth?” "Give it up,” replied the girl. “Go out in the lobby and look at the bill of fare.” THEIR PLANS EXTENSIVE The Messrs. Shubert have | statement of their plans for t! ing eeason, which is undoubted most extensive ever put out a theatrical management. Frankly, it ts too tong to be printed here. It may | be stated, however, that nearly 100 theatrica) companies wii! play Dy ' { suspices controlled by, oF afiliated Broonlyn Nyt j ? with, the Messrs and that | ~ ‘ f Mien Sy then un ntee ty ce abs| ae SPEECHLESS | A SAD CASE. | ’ . Ho oat ae or other citics, | 7 CKO wa 1, ar BUILDER and ntractor ' | W THEY DESCRIBE HER. | You a nickel every day you’ Do estes! war bes oe ts eee Peto oc eee teas ome of the Vay s Goo tories Be eee ete teh | Hab 8 nicks! onary gay xtiize a: pont & aeene jo—* iis mother rushed. up the a erable nae f s 11 Her father--An angel child. are naughty you are to give aan Deets uxecoure” ue the Bijou The- | atered € ent, visited w prnee BUAPNIOE, | TOO TRUE. TENDER MEMORIES. Her youngest brother —A I'd Niki ; do't dad," answered atre. Aug. 26, pees Sd Bey yst pear eae (CI eal ing to my colored man | ¢¢ ANY a high-sounding name|¢¢QHUT that door!” yelled the, Stuck-up thing kid. “But I can't afford it. Tee ome Bilaavetn Bryce Is going abroaa| ‘oY. y & ths rearrested of all work the other day,” aia | connects pretty rotten | rough man. “Where were you| Her oldest brother—A cute kid, but| ot $1.25 in my bank to start on" with the Margaret Mayo unit to en man, me ho spoke to 6 l yang, oghines, Yates Mellen of Clevo- chinga” eald Selb. Gor fawedcin o barat! Whe tnan| selfiall Jalveston News } “Grace Field is , ; “he ma BOO Raeg nee ree 1 asked him if he went to/ son, the popular New York after- | addressed meekly and silently com-| Th® minister's wife—That very aiesemenes “The Kiss Bur get hold of the dictionary seh ce Se ae noes dinner speaker, in an attack on pan-| plied, but the speaker looking at him Pretty girl. TOOK THE BISCUIT, | { meeeed by Et = Ns Meh ina gi pred to give him | Sunday, ho aaa baa ay eta lke th » of th | moment later observed that he was|,_ ‘The woman next door—That insipid Hl Mudeumbe Prevaricating an4 if a wir Have suc wien: hin van “amatice! # and told him to clear! «are you a member? Rihta nee sane simi chaP| in tears, Going over to his victim, he | Plonde. Debating Society was in session, | 1 to alin ape. reM. A fap taney membe little boy asked him: sore. |APOlOgized, “Ob, come,” he eaid| Her employer—A gum chewer, und all was proceeding peacefully r 4,000 in) Washingt ea We MeO Tes © foreman, with “eamun! oe soothingly, “you shouldn't take it to} T@ Young man bookkeeper at the|and harmoniously till the ratesto a , all a What church ? ' fie i ’ } goubrette in Henry W Pe ae Gent foe & Wore Ot Mipepeneiaenynt \th t Legg Mee said the father, | heart because I asked you if you were | "Mce—Not 60 bad for looks, but no-| man spoke. duction of “Have a He: EF ago News. : inet, vewire tee Younk J Gis 080 160! raieed in o barn.” body home, Some people," he said, “consid. i Me ae Do you believe in the doctrine of |9ld to have any fun.’ "—Washington |" Ih ® PAL |, lk one! he office boy—Poor, I guess, the rat hasn't got muc! ~ j A THOUGHT FOR TO-Day PENITENT BENNETT. a Te o: other man. '“I was raised in a barn,| Her beaux: they're wrong. Pit reaae he i aca! gan look ao & lice | WNOLD BENNETT — shocked — - nau | | and it makes me homesick every time| Jack—A be ’ 1 ance, onee I i Be hae caiehty ting bu 8A sabes petal So SELDOM SEEN you think I am elected to be | FRIGHTFUL. | hear an ass bray."—Boston ‘Tran-| ‘roma Went ae @ mother place her yeur-old babe } et a food ady look at a queen, - | phett was cc led to do S IBYESKL KOURNOS, the Potsh | aw, Mr. Mellen, 1 didn't even HE was a sweet Little thing with | ree ei ll Po ge ae A pens of ude ttage to sun himself, peter Wiesate ee rianist, narrate ‘ know you al candidate,’ the most wasplike wais' a eeiereeercree 5 it; sy and, to keer his spirits up, » FOOLISHMENT. this" ssid a iiterar by plas praton at @ Annee in| COOW Y9u Al wens CAndlonts f tt pepe by PROBABLY GOT PIE. Dick—The sweetest girl in the|the little chap a bie feeding ee eeye ‘A encet i maids And I ale 1 “ a jot Denver Poland y story passersby had nothing but ad- Ld world,—8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. | - & feeding bottle of Bot" canted ae mutt tha ritic nine In German wran AN OBJECT LESSON, miration in their eyes for her. But| 6& 4, you give me a crust of me milk, As I watched I saw a rat croep haid cin r, Now hel¢ : as Rivet M'SMITH was on her first) What was th had fainted. | bread and s cup of water, NOT ENOUGH CAPITAL |up to the child, and my heart was in 1 vever would do this ching twice ne und then, 1 line owner, “wh ie, DFG ean voyage Tenderly they her into a drug | mum? | FATHER eays that be th my mouth, 1 feared for the b, \ crow. stuff ies Male Wil Poland tiuko ? “What's that down there?” | scored ae ssalrrebane leaked th after (ices! Ae Se you Up 8 Bie A Deed’ Gnougateun thought! But, bless you, the rut was only ation FROM THE CHESTNUT Tree, HE urow stu sg a a RGmnie Siltarinn © |abe cauaatite Gadi served the occurrence, looked in after /juneh, But why didn't you ask for be DAS INCUNDE Up 8 the milk! He just slipped the’aneae hah did you jine de army ob de | whose teacher asked t ut fight Phas the steerage, madam," be is she now?" “Oh,” was the reply,| Smething substantial?” | household. He not uty order in his out of the child's mouth and into hie replied. “she's coming to." he” murmured| ‘I'm @ student of human nature, | U9 € noticed that his rather own, and then thoughtfully put the “which w obstreperous young son had the qual- jend of his tail into the child's mouth 1 you rather be, ity of thriftiness, and resolved to ap-!>Y Way of a comforter!" @eautiful or good” Keally!" exclaimed Mrs, MeSmith| the son of Erin, vaia' in niet ‘come in two—has| It's mighty seldom I strikes anybody acre ‘Ab jong in de Baptis’ chu'ch.” 1 “Does it take all those! she? Poor thing! Bedad, it's just| what's mean enough to give me just a’heah, man Yo' nebbah r “1 rather be beautiful— x 6 the bone fined de army—yo' fined de navy,” | pent "Detroit Free Presa Tee the Done do any fight people to make the boat go straight?” what I was afraid of."—Gcranton 4 crust an’ a cup of water.’—Pitts- peal to it, With @ great sigh the presidemt 38, ington Stas, “The People’s Home Journal, Timea, burgh Chronicle-Telegraph, “Sonny,” wald he, "I'm going to giye Weekly, UM 'M® Discult.—Pearsom & , eekly, z\ a =i = —