The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1918, Page 12

ee os sos By BIDE H. WOODS will place two @ Plays in rehearsal in the near | futura One ts “Roads of! Destiny,” by Channing Pollock, sug- gested by the O. Henry story of the same name. Florence Reed will have the leading role in it. Another pl Prominently cast will be John a tern. The other play is @ farce called "Go Easy, Mabel.” It is by Wufon Collison, who bas yet to make his} mark op Broadway as an author, | WAR AFFECTS FILMS, Boonuse of the war film producers are finding it exceedingly bard to get leading men and competent directors Mary Pickford, acoording to her mother, ig having an enforced period @f tdiencss because her management eannot find the right director for ber. MITZI WRITES A NOTE, Mital, of “Head Over Hooia,” has @ecided to invest her savings in Lib- erty bonds, While in the office of Ber manager, Henry W. Savage, yes- terday, she spied a typewriter and decided to leave Mr. Savage @ note Here's the very note: “Jert sinr, “AA thxS ls too Be tHE MAS LADArTy 10aN$ with AmirliCaN VICWRYe in GH | WaanT to LN- vieT mI eavéings. plaSH addviCk we tHEE bist wae tox DO ITT. “yurOes in HASte, mITZL” DID YOU KNOW THAT— ‘The British have become adopts at some of their foes the Tur- teaching key trot? In the U-boat controversy with Germany, Spain ts near a backdown when it cought to have its back up? BY WAY OF DIVERSION, I met a man Thursday who talks all the time I think he's a subject that’s Ot for a rhyme. He started on wa, and I tried to eacapa He acted ‘as though he'd tmbibed of the grape. ‘Thai subject exhausted be spoke of his wife and gave me some tips on his intimato life. I cared not a whit ‘that the lady could cook or that his smal! boy had read many a book. Once more 1 moved off but he yanked me right back and talked tll I feared my poor eardrums would crack. For this he was sorry; for that be was giad. At last tho worm turned and 1 got pretty mad. I gave him a push and 1 burried away. “Thank good- ness,” I said, “I am rid of that jay.” He followed me home and, oh, pardon my grin, my wife started talking—he couldn't break in. BAILEY’S CAST COMPLETE. The cast for Oliver D. Bailey's new pier. “A Stitch in Time,” which Bailey & Smith will display at the Fulton ‘Theatre Oct. 16, 19 now complete, In it are Lrone Fenwick, Grace Carlyle, Bvelyn Carter Carrington, Ralph Kel- lard, Robert Cain, Leo Lindhard, Karle Mitchell, J. H. Gilmour and George Schaeffer. By Peay ig | them one may see readily that “A Stitch in Time” waves nine playera from immediate worry over engagements, THE “FREEDOM™ CAST. Tn addition to Marcia von Dresser, Edward Martindale and Arlene Hack- ett, the following-named have been engaged for “Freedom,” which Julie Opp Faversham and Lee Shubert will resent in New York next month: Beary Herbert, J. Harry Irvine, Mra. Hudson Liston, Clara Eames, Eva Randolph, Hlizabeth Moffat, Caroline Duffy, Dric Snowden, R. H. Irving, Waiter Geer, Robert E, Lee Hill, Noel Tearle, Edward Broadley and Arthur Row. SOME BROOKLYN RHYMES © W. of Brooklyn has sent us sev- About Plays and Players DUDLEY tren nd if you think you can do aa well mail us some. Almost every- body loves beautiful women, choco- RECORD OF “TIGER ROSE” “Tiger Rose,” after four weeks at the Manhattan Opera House, will leave the city to-morrow, This play now has @ record of 422 performances in New York, one of which David Belasco is justly proud. Frankly, fow thought “Tiger Rose would last a year here, but It caught on and bung on. Were It not for contracts requir- | ing it to visit other cities it might re- main here months longer, OH, YOU GLADYS! Mary Pickford’s name before she went on the stage and into the movies was Gladys Marie Smith, Gossip. John D. Willams staged “Bleeping Partners” jaat night io Stamford. Corinne Harker has been engaged by Charles Emerson Cook for “Rem- nant.” Exiward O'Connor has been engaged by the Messrs. Sbubert for “Stop ‘That Man.” Both the Winter Garien and tho Central will offer big bille at concerts to-morrow night. George Thornton, the “donkey” in “Sinbad,” has been accepted as «@ mess boy tn the navy. William (Bul) Batley, who has been tampering with films lately, has a vaudeville aketch. Sergt. Dan Castier and his Yap- hank band have sailed for France to Diay for the soldiers. William 8 Hart, just in from the West, will seo hia latest film, “The Border Wireless,” at the Rialto next week. Broadway hears that Dick Marsh, a veteran actor, died Wednesday. He was in “Circumstantial Evidence” and with Henrietta Crosman, Mike Simmons, tho Harlem actor. poet, is now with the War Chemical BRervicn He writes he ‘intends to bomb the Germans with explosives antl poems. Word from EmiMe Polini, acting in Austrailia, says she was married re- cently to Lieut. Harold W, Ellis of the Royal Field Artillery. Billie Burke has returned from Lake Placid. She will spend four weeks working in a film and then begin rehearsals for a new play in which will be starred by her hus- band, Ziegteld jr. B, 8. Moss has released a five-ree! feature picture called ‘Temptation” which Is desc das “an exposition of eugenica.” Carl Myers is featured, He is anaisted by @ hundred “water nymphs.” A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. One of the nicest men tn Wellsville is A. Rotter, FOOLISHMENT. farmer ones went on # sh! 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