The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1918, Page 14

re ee ete ae Sere ~~ «ee ae Fee sin tliat te . "COMIC PAGE ~ Wednesday, August 7, 1918 and Players By BIDE DUDLEY HE Messrs, Shubert ere having a a hard time finding an avail- able name for their new the- atre at 47th Street and Broadway. First it was to be called The Apollo, but they discovered a motion picture house had that name and insisted on keeping it. Next The Capital was gelected for the new Broadway the- | atre and for a short while all was well, But it wasn't long till another | film theatre bobbed up with that name and the Theatre Naming De- | partment of the Shubert organiza- tion had to set the wheels grinding again. Now it is announced that the new house will be called The Gotham provided there is no movie place by | that name concealed somewhere in the suburbs of } COLUMBIA OPENS AUG. 12. ‘The regular season of the Columbia Theatre will begin Monday after- noon, Aug. 12, with Dave Marion and! his company in a new burlesque and) vaudeville show, With this engage- | ment the Columbia will return to its shows each week. Brurite the four weeks that the the- | atre has been closed it has been com- pletely renovated and redecorated. AUTOGRAPHING F. RAY. An unusual garden party was held | yesterday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gest, Great Neck, L. L, when thirty or forty theatrical people assembled to greet Ray Comstock, who is incapaci-| ated there with a broken ankle. Mr. Somstock’s leg is in a plaster cast 3 an added diversion, all those | present wrote their autographs on the cast. The manager i# worried now over the fear that the docto may have to break the cast to r lease his leg when the bone knits. | He feels certain, however, that some | of the autographs will remain into ‘as there were several prety bard) names written on the cast, PLEASE NAME THESE PIG®. R. H..Burnside interrupted the re- hearsals of the new Hippodrome pro- duction the other day to speed to his home near Ridgewood, N. J, and elcome a litter of ten piglets which ad just arrived. Before he returned to New York he had named five of them after Charles Dillingham, Mark A. Luescher, William Stewart, Joho Philip Sousa and Houdini. He now asks his friends to suggest names for the rest and respectfully that they give him three names be- fore which may be used the prefix “Miss.” BY WAY OF DIVERSION. “I haven't got riches,” said Dzra MoGee, “but gee, I've got Maggie and Maggie's got me. There's nothin’ else counts very much with us two.” Then Hzra MoGee took @ generous chew, “IT eee by the papers some feller to- day lost mebbe a million in stock market play, an’ then, in despair, put @ hole in his head. He had the wrong dope, an’ he's better off dead, It ain't ‘ewhat you win an’ It ain't what you jose in dollars an’ cents or in peanuts or booze, that matters the most in this funny old life. It's love of a husband + Or icve of a wife, Now, mebbe I'm wrong, as you see it,” Kx said. “In that case I'd say you've heen sadly misled. To my way of thinkin’ we couldn't agree, for say—I got Maggic an’ Maggie's got me.” EMPLOYS SPANISH ARTISTS. The Tarrazona brothers, noted @cente artists of Spain, have been Drought to New York by Charles Ml- lingham to paint several of the impor- tant scenes for “Everything,” the new| Hippodrome show. ‘These artists fur. | nished the settings for “The Land of| Joy,"{ the Spanish musical piece | whicl was seen at the Park Theatre jast season, Seaieeialal Gossip. Jean Stuart has been engaged for part in “Seven Days’ Leave,” open- in Washington, Aug. 19. nor Woodruff and Franklin Ardell! have signed up to play in “The Crowded Hour,” which Selwyn & Company will produce. ‘The new musical comedy in which Charlies Dillingham will present Julia Sanderson, Joseph Cawthorn and Chifton Crawford, aided by Doyle & “gad will be called “Take It From .” Because of the heat the Mesers, Shubert postponed the opening of “The Blue Pearl,” at the Longacre ‘Theatre unti! to-morrow night Billy B. 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