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COMIC PAGE Friday, October 25, 1918 VL 4 AL ty | -soray T Have nT 4 Berrer~ SUPPER- Bur You dee, iat, WELLO- MARY = Jysr IN TIME FoR suPPER. COME RIGHT thy NexT TIM@ You've LeT Me KNOW You ‘Re COMING - WONT YOu CAMB UNELPECTED.Y Nora Bayes at Her Best || in “Ladies First” BY CHARLES DARNTON. — ttenei — Yu Ber Dis Ler You VIDENTLY Nora Bayes doesn't care a hang about the title of @ play, for instead of one on the programme at the Broadhurst Theatre last night there was this: “Dear Mr, and Mrs, Audience: ¢ “J, ‘Nora Bayes, being of sound |inat it may be taken for granted. mind and legal age, do hereby swear| while Mr, Smith's wit isn't as daz- that Mr. H. H. Frazee, with the v ng as Miss Bayes's gowns and Mr. uable assistance of Mr. Frank Smith no's compositions are nothing fact remains s more tunes, the that 6 First” is entertaining. In s bout equally divided be- ¥ tween th sentiment and ragtime val ties, the indefatigable Nora was fe at her best, and she sang them all BS in a way to dispel any possible fear . a of lung trouble, She was Lead re ore ly happy in the syncopated@numbers, = She pped it up with her Their Think Tank Was Turned Off, Too! 4 nats. Any candidate for | - — her 8} scular effects BRR-R!IIM FROZEN Pics . put a torch-light procession | ¢ 1 “Tt ay ‘ATS Wor X SAID ‘4 y in the shade, WG AY ket a ca gas Sou SAID CT! We'LL I DEMAND HEAT Miss Bayes were a number WE WoN'T GET HEAT Be CETTIN' “THI =MA\ f eertormers, among them | 1) ‘TLL NOVEMBER Nou Sennen: ROLES . =] A Tut Busy oH of Betty's campaign mana- | “THINK WERE A COUPLA JAN’ EVERY THIN } ; WGONE. ace ! |gwer, After starting off rather In-| S = differently with elf-playing ear | [= 8 oper, Mr. e-| ‘j sac mmon ; 4 origi t ate y tention trembling Like a at of summer, Then he| at elf to be an exception- | Po a re neer, and when he 5: - if og thrown about by a strong-arr > . 2: J I fA WEEK? WELL 4 enormous lady n 1 FI , | f i ; ; ° F TREN: Th RADIA! eo rison, the fun i a r Yi , Ceti HS RA TOR’ But he w Mw! ‘ ‘ pickled we in the Inst he 4 ed himself with | >“ % strength of a jag that provoked PS, shricks of laughter His balancing © gon, has done his darndest to give) acts made him an acrobatic marvel. | you a play that will entertain you.| Miss Morrison played a very largo| © * ‘That well known author, Mr. Harry) Part in 116 TONNE One wate ; B, Smith, took the famous play of | OTUGre if Mon thar Meare Or the Bie Charlie Hoyt called ‘A Contented in the world, Woman,’ and brought the same wom- , with an occasional fan right up to the minute, A. Bald- ¢ ack Norworth, sang and behaved 11 as the pride and win Sloane then wrote some of the| joy of fetty'’s heart. A choc wunes.” colored tot with sh According to the newspaper adver- licarts as she tiserhents, the play ts now named {ne contre “Ladies First.” You may recall that|jnto the. a in his farce Hoyt dallied with the idea| Lew Cooper ga of having a woman run for Mayor,|Al Jolson, and Charles Oleott ana} Now that women have the vote in| ©! nat aedeat Vala or py (ye life of the party, And “Ladies | the more enlightencd communities, t" is one of the liveliest enter- COTHEN, WIL Preee Peommnn OE OT T. Evenme WHET JOE’S CAR Copyright Ik Press Tuuliohing Co (N.Y, Evening Word? You Don’t Need Trigonometry to Figure It Out! sw! ) ST WEEK HE, ovERHEATS THE ENGINE! FIFTEEN OH, YOU MAKE ME “TIRED ALWAYS KICKING ABOUT “THE COST OF A CHAUFFEUR! WHY — WE'RE LUCKY “To GeT RuFUS wuere'dD Y'GET “Har "Lucy" STUFF ? Thisty A Month Mf \ WHATTA Y'MEAN , we'Re Lucey Get Him FOR THIRTY Dorrags! 2 MONDAY HE PUTS “ThE. =-an YESTERDAY HE STARTER ON “Ta'BLINKS strips A rew i > this idea is so obviously up to date! ta ments in town, t Bi, we DOLLARS! 2 Rit TEETH OSTA “THE my - i — silat DIFFERENTIAL! 4 : ‘gouT TWELWE 4 : “DOLLARS! ag By BIDE DUDLEY r — AE thabdiao ‘3 “Daddies from the Belasco| during his stay at this thgatre, c. Dp BELASCO will move) popular scale of prices will prevail Theatro to the Lyceum on A GIFT FOR MRS. COBURN. a o' \. 7 3 Monday, Nov. 4 Ho will tako this} artior the first Now York perform q action in order’ to present Frances| ance + er ‘Ole? at the wich Theatre, Capt y q Starr in her new play, “Tiger, Tige q at the Belasco a week later, Mr. Be: irnsfather, one of the au 4 jasco promised Edward Knobloch, | ‘0! ged ge aN ag . euthor of “Tiger, Tiger,” that his Ration Aine wuld % play should go into the Belasco early nt in France. in’ f'r you," he said Bert in the play her the disk ~ = Dorothy Cumming, Auriol Lee, Daisy paniciite @ four a ¥ Sincere, Lionel Atwill, O. P; Heggie,| likeness of Old Bil on one bide | ‘SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK” ii Night Noises!” ae in November, Besides Miss Starr, ie the company's roster will include oa Wallace Erskine, Whitford Kane and A i} : airs Louken DISTINCTION FOR JOLSON. T +§ sie 1 n is to have the distir CoH! Loo THAT RATTLING MAW THOUGHT SHE AEARD & ° Y y Es HOW IT HAPPENED, | i le namo $n SEP WIND OM, GETS.1 NOISE INTHE KITCHEN waa Row Nols sairs | DIA EVER: i Mary Nash, now Mra. Jo ite being at the Casino, where ‘ne is, LA ! We STUFES ITU . es ‘ MAUDE MEARS A GET AFTER AFAR A i Ret the story of her appearing in “Sinbad,” it will be put WITM A PIECE OF Youre LPL MOUSE! MIONIGHT! LONG ISLANO ak t. She was calling iL Jt will be pu ’ THAT FAUCET Mus AL YS 1 — ee tthe offices of A. | UP In tn ete en rernen RUNNUINJIN TH! TBE) MACNN? \ ~. ob asked he 0" bw re o dvertise l i They sonia eho wanted foc the fret) sung! at those houpes, Al GorTa Fix Slade !Go SoWin THINGS! On, OFAR! ' h Berformance of “The Big Chance,’ in| eoned, Just whut “kind, “he docan|| |PASeL Ais IN Tomorrow! Peach she Gem epee GOIN' To MURDE.f. ME RIGHT IN MY BED! » next Monday. Miss | w tickets for her sister he - \ nd then remembered THEATRES DID WELL. } Chairman F. F. Albeo of the The-| she said, “and one for | trical Allied Interests Committee for TWEETIE! OON'T WiLL Aim! “Oh, my husé the Liberty announced last + And right there tho cat leaped} y 1 verified sales of wildly out of the gunny sack, b t headqurters by w York was $41, is IT Luce AN. ILLINOISE? THE PROPER MAN, Oliver D, Ba thor of “A > i fered another play for p an ambitious young writer early in 4 the week. Mr. I found the first ool act called for a @ shipbuild- iron girders, &c., used. When Mr. Bafley rejected the play the author asked him where he'd better send it] « " Schwab. He's the only who has scenic} "0 yy if artists ca veting that first a by ment has act set tox bought eight of the “Ben Hur" chario tek for use in the Chateau MANTELL IN “RICHELIEU.” . | Robert Mantell will devote the en- ire first week of his forthcom) gagement at the 44t i to Bulwer Lytton's GRINDSTONE GEORGE iegsteceiees : WAL LE Paves Rvtiabiaw on) [Ok ¥. Gveniog Work! oa Sh hubert announce spe-| D T Richelieu. 1 Mande spoke before ths New tion of Women's Clubs at the Hote! Astor this morning. He told of the war work of the women nd & war review film was betns| | t the yesterday, Will } lam Feder, a ‘cel in the orchos t, saw his brother Louis in the picture Send a Nobody’ te “Grindstone George Hes the fellow who rem | A em You when you visit the Mates: | Yoost after & few years absence! { a A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Satine ett \eetng dail When old Harry Seamon of Wells- ‘ ys Hd one pitter’ena Ceesnber | IN ville saw two men, a boy and a dog July. | v “What's the cause of the crowd? | FOOLISHMENT, iy peaking earnestly Not talking through my hat, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, ahh know Jummy Wilson's