The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1918, Page 12

and Players By BIDE DUDLEY | m OHN D. WILLIAMS will place in al rehearsal next week a comedy called Sleeping Partners,” which ran for several months at the Bavoy Theatre, London, with Seymour : Hicks in the principal role. In the a American production Henry 8B. War B ner wil! be starred and Irene Bordoni a will have the only female part. The gomedy is a short-cast piece. The two ether important roles will be taken Guy Favieres and Arthur Lewis. title is the ish equivalent of the Amgrican se "Silent Part- Bers.” It'was written by Sacha Guitry : ner the title of “Faisons un Reve.” p & Paris the play had a long run, with | ir. Guitry in the role Mr. Warner will play bere. _— | . BY WAY OF DIVERSION. | » Our Billy's in the infantry; he's over) in France. For years he'd fan- @ied soldier life, and so he grabbed the ‘chance. He writes us that ho's seein’ | ‘Uhings that thrill him ‘causo they're | few. We're worried just a little as e's learned to parley voo. He s| that soup ain’ soup at all; it's gome funny name—that everything in} France is changed an’ nothin’ is the! It's ali! game. Then spellin’! Goe! x mixed up an’ hard to handle tov, But "e ot the hang of it, an’ he can voo. Now, Ma an’ me ain't ee ’ much ‘bout that now talk he’s € Mearned. While he’s away ft’'s all 0. eo K. oo fur as we're concerned. But HE HAD BAD PIPES. cart. Ada Ames, secretary to H. H. Ft Frases, theatrical producer and owner the Boston Red Sox baseball team, ‘at her desk yesterday, reading from a bandsome soldier In when the telephone rang. said ® man's voloe. "Vy My pipes is four pipes?” replied Mise Amos. “Well, see a throat specialist. This is Red Sox headquarters” Bhe bung up the receiver and re- sumed the reading of the letter. Jiat ‘as she reached the “Be good, dearie” nish, the phone tinkled again. | y, how "bout my pipes?" shouted the same voice. “Listen, mister!” said Miss Ames. . “I told you this was Ked Sox bead- f quarters.” . “1 vant a plumber!” yelled the man. “1 don't vant no clothing!” As sbe gently placed the recetver Where it suspends when not in use, Miss Ames dreamily remarked: “Central is completely unfurnishe? upstairs.” SHE HEARD HER SONG. Rachel Story, who lives in Pleasant- ville, N. Y., wrote a song called “The Little Boy ‘That Never Was” recently it was published by Meyer Cohen. jag Storey had never heard it sung since it came off the press. Yesterday Mr, Cohen received a letter from her saying she was ill in bed and express- a wish to hear the song. Cara who wrote “Love Me and the World Is Mine,” as well as numerous 4 other successes, was in the Cohen of- fice and was shown the letter. : “Tl fix that,” suid Miss Roma ag Fifteen minutes later she was sing- ing “The Little Boy Who Never Was" over the long-distance teleptone into 4 the ear of the sick woman. At its con- ¥ elusion a man's voice came in on the Be “You're a better doctor than I am, Miss Roma,” it said. SMITH DID WELL. 2 Will H. Smith wasn’t in the army ‘could be making thousands of dol- ‘staging theatrical productions. It ‘who put on “Yip, Yip, Yap- ‘When Smith went to Camp as a private he took olong 4 from Gus Hill, for whom he had been writing lyrica, to George Miller, manager of the Liberty Theatre there. resulted in his being assigned to the “Yip” show. The success of that venture is now history. Nu merous managers would like to put Bmith to work, but he has other duties ‘got to help stage a big show it if “he says. GossIP. Loney Heskel) will begin uplifting “errs again Monday. ¢ Yurka has been added to Jane Cowl's support in “Informa- tiem, Please At the dinner tendered Hamish by his ex-boss, 8, L ae ge Thursday night Hamish he could tell time with his new wrist watch in six different weve. *Maytime” isn't going into Maxine EMiott's Theatre after afl. It will be moved back to the Broadhurst Mon- fey night. “He Didn't Want to Do Te" will go to Boston. ‘The Fifth Avenue Theatre will have an animated war song contest dur img the week of Sopt. 16. Manager Quaid plans to bave the audiences decide which songs win. The entry list ts long, Rallard MacDonald {s to put on a musical show for the Quartermast- er’s Department in Washington. The musio is being written by Nat Os- borne. Dan Dody will stage the VION GREATLY PLEASED. a the Germans and the | French took place at Vionville, Wrance. Joe just heard of it yester- | @ay. He'd like to state | relatives must have come | efile. 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