The evening world. Newspaper, August 2, 1918, Page 12

COMIC PAGE Frigay, August 2, 1918 LITTLE “MARY MIXl SHH He = OX a I want T AsK 2 Yo — as ae Mom, OF MoM, mom-mn-! No, You can UR MOM IF TS Aw, T want 7 ‘4 B ' NO ¥ A ( OBBIE WANTED TO WAKE SBoTHER HER \ IS THURSDAY oR muse fi x ASK HER, UP TS ASK IF This WAS ae “SWE SIN THERE OR TWESDAY teiaty ‘echiad “TUESDAY ALEEP ( ee HE Standard Theatre, on upper 4 Broadway, which has been play a ing $2 successes at @ dollar | scale for a number of years, is to} have opposition when the new season opens, The Messrs. Shubert have | taken over the Riviera, at 97th and/ and wil] instal the doliar| This step comes as a result of the break between the Shu- bert interests and those of Kiaw & Erianger. The latter firm wil! book the Standard, which is several blocks | south of the Riviera. The new move on the part of the Messrs, Shubert will make upper Broadway, in the vicinity of 96th Street, rather a lively | theatrical centre, ‘The Riviera was built five years ago and has been de- | voted to Vaudeville and films. It has| &@ seating capacity of 1,735. —— r . 7 WOODS SIGNS LEW FIELDS. THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY Lew Fields and Joe Weber have) abandoned their plan to appear io- gether in musical comedy this fa’ Mr. Fields has signed a contract with Caer reat, 178, Prams PuOtNARINg Ov (HT. Rivening Wert) epee 7 Neo! DoE CAME EVERYDAY AN’ HE HES “TH ONLY Rea. 4 FRIEND Youve Gor!) ‘ A. H. Woods to play the Louis Mana ae i} _—rele in a Boston company of “Friend- ’ YOU = ONLY ONE SAID HE WAG VERY ; —= =. ig ly Enemies,” opening at the Plymouth Wr HAS CALLED 0 ese 2 Mani {esr spose ra ie 2 Y SEE wet GRE ¢ is Theatre Aug. 26. Opposite him will SEE YO i as Ln 30-71" DAY play Charles Winninger, who gave such excellent imitations of Leo Dit- j ridhstein in two recent “Cohan . Vues.” This will be the third com- | a pany to play the Shipman-Hoffman comedy-drama, and it appears likely _# rat there will be several more. TO STAR MISS FONTANNE. George C. Tyler announces that he haa arranged to star Lynn Fontanne, | the English actress, in a new play | now being written for her. Miss Fon- | tame was a member of Laurette | Taylor's “Happiness” company, play- ing the role of Miss Perkins. Prior to her onbarking on her stellar ca- reer she will appear im “Among ‘Those Present,” which Mr. Tyter will offer soon at the Knickerbocker Thv- atre a \2 BeEFore I Was A NEW FIRM. “The Blue. Devil,” in which Lou ‘Tellegen is to star, will launch a new producing firm composed of Mr. 'T legen and Charles Emerson Cook. He- fore he opens in this play Mr. Tolle- for will make a brief tour in “Bund ‘outh,” his last seagon'’s vehicle. “Tho jue Devil” is by the Hattons, MISS PRETTY'S POEM. Mary Peterson, a chorus girl, known professionally as Violetta Pretty, has sent us an original poem which is some pumpkins and a couple of squashes. Hearken, dear reader: It used to be when Mae on Bat pince, the was, hae gained full eway. hayire changed thelr minds concerning, Mee ES And powder boosted to Bhe's rich and stylish tov, WORM'S VACATION. A. Toxen Worm, general press rep- resentative of the Shubert attractions, je having a week's vacation and is| spending it on one-day excursions in| and around the city, Monday he vis-| ited the Bronx Park Zoo and saw th monkeys; Tuesday he went to thi Aquarium and marvelled at the fish; Bor T Yost- Wound NT Ler Him Botts rR, 5 / Sx promise ) 2 To LEND HIM ee (Send » Nobody" te Grindstone George) _ He's the janitor who dusts your desk and chair Wednceday he dropped in at the Mu- Versey geum of Natural History and took o ~ aguint at the bo! of the Wallogopo- Mie; yesterday he explored the mar- He Can't Move in This Game! -vels of the Pennsylvania Terminal; to-day he at Hole -Wall, Westchester County, using a palm leaf fan; to-morrow he will visit the Battery, and Sunday, if he's feeling | THE ENGINE NEEDS att | well, he will slip over to the Statue of Liberty. I CAN GET (T HERE AT THIS —e e a oct THE “I.0.U." CA8T. LUTTLE CROSS-ROADS STORE! Besides Mary Nash and Joxe Ruben, | the cast of “I. O. U.." which William | A. Brady will present at Asbury Park Monday night, includes Courtney | Foote, John Cromwell, Robert Rendel, Louis Frohoff, Kanily Fitzroy, Esther Howard, Helen Pingree, Robert Ayer- ton, Alexander Loftus, Mary Britton, R. Kojima and Harry Lyons. GOSSIP. Bugene and Willie Howard are to buy a stock farm in Kentucky “Byes of Youth” will have had a year's run in New York on Aug. 2 5 now being feature OIL? Yessir! \F Yel des’ watt Tie } FINISH “THis HERE GAME , (LL BE RIGHT with YE ? WELL ~ HURRY Up! OR WE WoN'T GET CAMPED BEFORE DARK f the Century Pelham Naval Training Camp p uesday Arthur Hammerstein has engaged Herbert Cortell for a role in the new musical piece, “Sometime.” jeorge produced a playlet alled llo, Central," by Louise osser Hale, at the Base Hospital Move si! ] GOTTA MAN A-~WAITIN OUT THAR It! family sat on the porch, dren played in the yard “we rich, but L never find them.” “The old m family, now that we could Now, Jot and Moll, Susie way, w have?" ute, “Well,” she said, “I'm zine, a a the work around here," “I guess that is so," Fox Hills, last night RM = BR ARE RHORE Joe Feared the Worst Might Happen Too Soon! THE REAL DIFFERENCE. 66] CAN'T see why that man is boss over me, 1 do most of Don't Worry—He Landed on His Head! “NOBODY DOES IT | leveral chile he stranger arrived at the gate and was invited in and sat down on the porch with r," asked the mountaineer, “are you interested in our oil up no,” said the stranger, “I haven't much faith in oil, 1 hear of these people who suddenly strike it n chuckled and said: “I am one, Yesterday [ was poor; day Lam rich. 1 was just asking my to- have things, what they would rather have, , here, he wants a horse, ants a new dress, and she'll take books, By the what would you rather The old lady never hesitated a min- pretty tired cutting wood with a dull axe; lll take @ new axe."—Harper's Maga- i@ The Motion Picture Theatre Man A j isi ‘ : ‘ “It is, I know more about the busi- agers will jhave a fe id day at the] re) re S t O f and the mother, appearing from be-/and her face bore too plainly the|#mazement, “Shure,” he gasped, “it's Bt ee Haan, he doce, Whenever he / dghis Club grounds, Freeport, to Yr t ind the paper, said, indignantly ; opty ea Teh atte Champion athlete you are en-| Wants to know anything about wh : an African golf game curse? Let her have it at once!" e ma she was a. aay “Not at all!” wag the grinning re- at's usually the way.” f ij Wilbur Mack, now appearing with| SIMPLY UNANSWERABLE. ned you wouldn't ask a little fellow | sp I tuk a couple o' bottles o'| “She's got it, madam. It's a wasp! | Miss, the doctor didn't leave me any li Notvat elt me toy! 1 keep 'm the fellow that ought to be the i Nella Walker in “A Pair of Tickets OUTH is no barrier to real/like me what's got no gang.”—Har- | Pinkham’s bitters a while back Philadelphia Publ Medicine,” waa the feply. pide! | i ‘pawabrol — Pittsburgh , boss,” a at the New Brighton, is elaborating trouble, Historical controver- | P¢'s Magazine bottle of Quackham nviKe —_——— rete any medicine?" “Well, yes; | Chronicle “A lot of men think that way, and | Beare, es Briabion. Ie saboratng| Pee tees pa treyar> | ea | with a couple o' boxes of Curem'a pilla ee eee [but 1 want some for my appetite,” | “Tolegr : yet there's one big difference. He ‘ William Elliott, on behalf of Ellio : 1 and a lot o' quinine and some dande ¥ ° | ore bay peste = fl A nows someth " 1 ‘ Bee rem Rulots, On nae of Eli tt, | schools since in the larger cities there THINK IT OVER. Bee ony Gr cease ande-| vx a certain office building, says the| “Law. yes, me the an It's] PROVIDENTIAL. Snowe, hing that you don't if Comatock & Gest, hus engaged for lis such an increasing attendance of || % & Vermont town they tell of a Sette Genie an tie Gace | Boston Post, Isaw the other day|'€2 Food. “I want gome medicine to R. YOUNGHUSBAND reached| “What is it?” 4 Theudla Windech a dary re eeatalna” | various races | J suitor who, after same years ofan’ a liver pad on, an’ I'm. wearing | a placard posted near the elevator |appetita with the prlaes of fod sa home late for dinner | “He knows enough to hire good 2 ciety girl. She is said to be rich and| The cla story had been called |. devotion, finally proposed to the ¢ belt, an’ takin’ cod liver oil) calling attention to the necessity for PraaiRhamalie Newt te | “I got caught for speeding on | Trew thal soui) oo ie Ron aif vou i P aay of his choles, ex a day, with a dose or two die ui . and Ne ee : ‘i new that you'd he bos 4 ; beautiful Jand the teacher was giving a review | ty his hoive ; ay a cay, with a @ Gr t¥e| conserving coal, and stating that in - and |the way home,” he explained rather |pe in your place Movil tree oan : aries lesson, but, nry.”” protested the lady, i “bic sheepish! “Have to apped =| eee J 4 | ' i ain't takin’ nothin i-| View of such need i y a appear t —_ i A THOUGHT FOR TO-Day. WS AeA RG VARA z 8 + this is really sudden, You had bet- | cago Nev ‘ : me 1 ; WHERE THE ANGER WENT yrrow morning and get ‘ten dollars ‘ . America she & Our elevator service will be re HE exile had saved » ie ane oF mB Sonar POWERFUL Asked who wrote the song, ‘It Ain't r give me a week to think it over!" a. h 4 a bit of i EFFECT, i No Disgrace to Run When You aes ked, directing her gaze upon little Gary wall cae’: re ins EAD ay }duced, Our lighting service will be money, and came back to his fifteen days. ‘cc HE people who preach econ- ‘ Seared,” old Bill Henneker of Wells, | TOMY Noyes The tad grew deathly | “and, after due A a ay ee E NURSE OBEYED. red Our heating service will be native. land for a holiday.| Mrs Younghushand fervently omy for others sometimes ; Ville ‘lowed it was the Kulser wh showed much tation, | “perhaps ae ta one corner of a railway carriage | reduced." fate he. i ; *lclapped two blistered Little hands . ae 1 Nay ere he met an old sghool fellow have to turn in and practic ¢ The ner, in much surprise, re- | Mhought f at the same, J St a very p girl in charge of) At the bottom of which some ten-) and started to tell him A: his success | iene ; economy for themselves pel Pees FOOLISHMENT. peated the question tune ee 4 nurse, The mother sat opposite, | ant had feelingly written jas an athlet ha eanke ,jroad man. “I once asked a business fate Matas mana ce Aca y — ehind an illustrated paper, Sud-| "Will our rent be reduced, too?” A ey cone henu ul yetnen | Mamautne man Whee cheataiis are tot worn) Rineaaloue Sauk Ina anmeihincel NEGLECTING HIS AILMENT. |denly there were wriggles and pee- —_—->—— ick candentig. ot eons aold pedal ee ‘Well, George, did you read your whe, mero ie 08 stash, Tasruthion alas omy whe AE AVE you taken anything for Vish cries, and a voice from behind WE MAY COME TO IT. | for @ 100-yard sprint.” | ALL SHE HOPED FOR. Wite that lecture on economy "you isn Tie tes, should I do that | your complaint?” asked the | the paper said . ISS EDNA G, HENRY, social] 1 Sod for pour ped ble 91d trian’, N a clear, cool evening in the| “ ‘Yep,’ George grunted, with a ges- , ae on Sas © oe | “Phe guys in back here wad talkin’ 5 ee ae ote long, tun, hungry-| "Give it 19 ber, muree ; service worker, tells a story Of | gold medals for the halt-mli¢, the | carly spring @ man on a horse | Me aya tny ‘ottect?! gaid 1 out it yesterday, ‘Timmy FI ooking man who came to him, com-|_ » crying went on, and again the unusual ailment of a| mie and the five-mile races; two sil- roased the ridge of a Kentucky| ‘Sure. hi . FROM THE CHEST! t y Flap said ey * from behind the er ¢ | 3 two a hi Bi entucky ‘Sure it did,’ said George, panel THE Cl BSTNUT TREE. it was discovered by an Irish saint, | Planing of being “all run down,” his] {Oition: | ? Paper came the Ine | negro woman she once met in a local) ver cups for swimming, a marble | mountain, and, seeing cabin in the|bought tyself a safety resch ont out a Biner—a ttle of everything. Gustat 210, It was a. aallor from |@ppesrance verifying bia words, | "Oh, do let ner have it, nurse; it’s | hospital. The woman, of unusually Slack B02 are GHD for Gyerins, 8d | vailey, turned his horse in that direc- | iar in favor of a pipe and had last oe ‘(oaing)—Une a said it wasl “Weill, 1 ain't been taking much of! no use letting the ohild ery." liane proportions, was seated on al wrestling.” |tlon, ‘The cabin was whitewashed |ir see me through the youn’ "Washes ro $ ' bus, an’ e » |'Columbus, an’ if you'd seen i enything, doo—that is, nothing to| Suddenly the crivs rose into @ howl, |dra little bench outelle her ward’ His old friend stared at mim im'and clean, The mountaineer and his|ington Star,