The evening world. Newspaper, October 21, 1918, Page 14

Of his nose. THE NEW PLAYS “The Better ’Ole” ‘| Rich in Humor BY CHARLES DARNTON LILA, 'ere’s a ‘it! Theatre on Saturday night with “The Better ‘Ole,” goifish but, nevertheless, gets The Phil May of the trenches, toons has “put over” one of the liveliest en We hs put his cartoons into vivid Bliot, and the result, with music by Herman Darewksi and Percival Knight, It was mado ‘way down at the Greenwich Village a play that sounds right down to the trenches. Capt, tertainments to be found In New York, pictures, with the ald of Capt, Arthur {# an entertainment that the wise playgoer can't afford to miss. “The Better ‘Ole” ts rich in humor. | men as funny as the sailors who fig- ure so delightfully in the yarns| Jacobs tells about them. The scheme Of life is much the same, and it works out accordingly to a public house that old Bill finds awaiting him when he gets back to his English village covered with mud and glory. Mr. Coburn was delightfully im- perturbable as Bill. He meant noth- img more than a good soldier doing his work without making any fuss about it, but he brought a wealth of humor to his role, With his droop- ing mustache he was the walrus of ancient memory, but even the Alice Bairnsfather has made his fighting) who wears a Hed Cross costume in jour new Wonderland would hail him as a brave fellow. The play itself is a mere sketch. But after capturing a spy and going over the top without orders, food old Bill puts out his chest and takes the medal, But the play doesn't begin and end with this amateur warrior, Charles McNaughton, ay the flirta- tious Bert, and Colin Campbell as Alf were amusing, The allied chorus girls joined merrily in the songs and the whole affair went off with a joy- ous bang. “4 By BIDE HE LONG DASH," a tbreo- act play by Robert Mears Mackay and Victor Mapes, y I has been accepted for production by| the Messrs, Shubert and will be pre-| sented on Broadway in the near future. Robert Edeson will have the ptincipal role und another import- ant part has been assigned to Henry KE. Dixey. The other members of the cast will be announced shortly. TO AVOID THE “FLUE.” Shelley Hull, star of “Undor Or- der@” has evolved a set of rules through the observance of which he thinks one can avoid bas ‘ng influenga, They are: Keep clean. Keep warm. Don't be afraid of it. at: Lireuty OF @0, ven dune, Rrant Jo. no doubt. but hie will fale out, ‘ast be dic fa ‘the poorsouse one “dame day," aid Jow Rose, Sa Pad Doers Mh that awegt th “ Pt take key tna, mycerealn that I'm aie che aan as, ber t Ma, eet strns for Tom Gn ise alone ane'e now Mom, ¢ ee ‘i tear) Spd be Plame the op, gt fear, the gould bare gone to “win (ee ioad ves that come We in our Dem, toe to breach yet thie shying ought to 4 Jesu. oft value, 1 ea) Py co's res fit, fart promise 1'U quit sermons thet bore you—eame day, ANOTHER ER EPIDEMIC. | The “Three Faces East" company, ft the Cohan & Harris Theatre, seems ito be a hotbed of playwrightitis. k Westerton has written A rince There Was,” in which Robert Hilliard will star; Edna Baker | fwriting on a comedy and Violet Hem ing is the author of a vaudeville > Why the others in the cast aren't writing plays we don't know. MAVERICK icK RHYMES. A peae's ye. whe wand'ving round ne Doasht Wek tyme along that nigdt ‘ahd got a Bittle bits He sa the woooile there (hat night toe tan oe bullet Teen seralthiy be tip Kad"en'e fu we MISS CLAIRE’S POEM, Lillian Claire of No. 342 West 46th Street saw some wounded marines in @ theatre enjoying the show im- mensely, The sight prompted her to write a poem, which follows: fered fini antl hassani tate, ‘These splendid boys of our can smile Because they're ebtertained the while, Arp Sa roe, Fach ad wo risked The “ile ip Tight To'taow the world that’ rant is wight, Some @umber ‘neath @ wooden crom, \Winle “stricken me tours, ther Jom, Bince they ba ‘that we may live, Can’ we do tem ian give—ive— gre! THE LARGEST FLAG. What is said to be the largest| American fag in the world will go on! THE WRONG FLACE. | © seated himself in the grill aad H made a protracted study of the | menu. “Waiter,” he sala at length, “I have only $2 with me, What would you recommend?" ‘The waiter gently removed the card ‘from the hand of the unsophisticated strangsr as he replied: “Ancther restaurant”—San Fran- clsco Argonaut. ee N convivial friend of his, “I had not seen him for several years, | AMBITIOUS, | AT GOODWIN tells one on a| and when we met I couldn't help commenting on the brilliant redness “John, jt must have cost you a lot to paint your nose so ‘About Plays and Players The e Day's s Good. ‘Stories DUDLEY to-day at the Hippodrome, display where it will remain three months. It measures 80 by 160 f The flag was made by the employees of a tal- loring establishment in Chicago and |for the past two weeks hung in the main concourse of Grand Central Station, TRY THIS, J. J. He J. J. HW. of Brooklyn 3-cent-stamps us to request that we write a rhyme which, if pated to a lady with the might win a smile, i low rhyme: violet blue; we you, ‘The re Baga ts deal sind” DID YOU KNOW THAT— Otto Harbach, who writes plays, can play the piano with all his Angers but the little one on his left hand? Marcus Nathan, Managing Director of the Terrace Garden Dance Palace, danced a sten in his life? gddie Dunn's fancy shirts cost so he is serlously thinking of wearing & dickio? GOSSIP. Sergt. Irving Berlin has recovered from an attack of influenga, Reginald Bryan has been commis- sioned a Captain al? the Quarter- co rs Corps, U Jack Lait is to be age on Broadway again, James Early is out on tho road, tisman, formerly our bell- . is now with the army in co and writes he likes it, Stuart Walker has gone to Boston! to see his original “Seventeen” com- pany open there to-night, KE. J. Tait of Austratia has made Charles Dillingham an offer for the Australian rights covering the pro- duction of “Everything.” Lloyd and Wells have been engaged by Jobn Cort for "Glorianna," which at the Liberty “Theatre 6 Comforts of Ignorance” will the Bramhall Piayhouse Oct, Henry Stanford bas joined the offered one of to the pu 000 chaser of a rty bond at the “Midnight Frolic” Saturday night, Ann Penningt beat the men to it, H. OM. ¥ra: as inPited 1,000 sol- diers and * to the Broadhurst lay aight to see the 1 of the musical r has been engaged y the roles of Peter Stuyvesant, Mr. Asquith in the turday night, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, Dere Santy: Pleze putt a nize chunk of peace in my stockin, pleze bo sure I gott a stockin’, Yure little boy, Wilhelm, FOOLISHMENT. ‘Thery, was Whold ere at too os Faroe eo be bell, seit bee et With he strenatn ot a,b ana Hsia sat wal FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “I can jump as high as the Wasb- |ingten Monument.” an, you're cra m not he Washington Monu- ment ean't jump at all." THE WISDOM OF BENNIC. bur I Y boy Bennie is lazy, t must say he is smart," said ee the musician “Is he golag to in your foot- steps?” i. “No. I learned to play the trom- bone and I've got to march about eight miles every time there is a pa- rade, Bennie is learning tho harp, so they will have to let him sit down Boston Transcript Bruce Bairnsfather, whose car- e made the war something less than a tragedy for fighting lads, Mone LITTLE MARY MIXUP Ga Mom '& Got & , Ne WoHAT- sit Has { THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY NosIR! No MAN WouLD WOT DYE MEAN- WHY SHES Got Sou “BUFFALOED ! WELL DEAR, I'm READY “To START ~ How ‘Bost You? 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