The evening world. Newspaper, November 12, 1918, Page 22

COMIC PAGE | Tuesday, November 12, 1918 | >= —s — (Now, MAKe your sek / AT Home, MaRY= T ‘tc “BE “RIGHT Back = - - {Ber AY mom = ste, " To.d me I must nr) ASK FoR ANYTHING / How. Be & Good GIRL (| OVER AT AUNT BDNAS AND ( DONT ASK FoR ANYTHING J You'Re “PERFECTLY WELCOME “TS “he FRUIT, MARY, BUT You “SHouLD ASK FoR ANYTHING Riley's Endearing Characters in “Home Again” BY CHARLES 'DASNTON ear night, years ago, when James Whitcomb Riley was perched on a high wt unter with a glass of milk and a ham sand- wich in p © turned and said to me: “Poetry, My boy, as 1 understa ssion of the soul, simple or other- wive, and 1 try to make it as 4% Unis sandwich or a ploce of pump- kin pie.” ‘At that time Riley udlass reve Greamed he would be represe on) But with all his modesty, Mr. Me- But at the F nt his gentle, cherished the dramatic Douwe last y Latghlin has made “Home Again” ke a day in the country. It has | Riley's endearing characters to sive} it human warmth, although ft Is as lacking in dramatic quality as “Little Women.” Riley, wit! his youthful | ambitioms, is portrayed as Jim John- | son, who plays the banjo while he| is supposed to be studying law, jumps | at the chance of taking part in a “medicine show,” and after winning | fume as a poet writing for an In-| Twisted. rt, “ gi we - me YE DEAR- MY wy! rin’ (Coprriant, 1096, Vreee tmttoning Co. (N.Y rentag dianapolls spaper, 3 to x ” HOW EX¢) \ Greenfield and taxes “Orphant Aa-||( NEPHEW “DINNY" 16 _DID HE BRING Re iy Be I WISH IT'D nie” to his heart and arms, The play DES BACK FROM Me ANY is both simple and sentimental. =! FRONTS py nee DocToR “Took OUTA . BEEN A GERMAN Tim Murphy came back to his own ‘ OUVEN! b His SIDE $ ’ HELMET! as the tramp father of Annie. Sym- e pathetic, though maudlin at times, i he gave a touch of poetry to the performance. Madeline Delmar made Annie imaginative without being too | wild for the good of the play, and | put a great deal of spirit into her 2444d ee ee i recitation of the verses about the goblins that will get you if you don't | , watch out, In his capacity as the ’ }town marshal, Charles Dow Clark lIved up to his badge, and Maclyn | ag spirit came back to us in a rural com-|Atbuckle was another “Mr, Barnum ey, called “Home Again.” His poems | as the patent medicine doctor. Henry ’ were recited so industriously that| Duffy played Jim Johnson—in other “Doo” Li summed up Robert Mc-| words Riley—with a poetic touch, » oh Ls S Laughlin ympathetic play by say-|while Gcott Cooper as the village f BO ae aq achat “EE ‘ ing: “It's just like Friday afternoon | ™sistrate, and Forrest Robinson as 4 = L BPO Faas pee Say * the village doctor did good work. im a A = "s — y fm school.” A better criticism of} “Home Again” Is a play with lov- n = ® “Homo Again” could not be written, | able types--nothing more. = = = = eel sBud+ Coun (HAN | JOE’S CAR Joe’s Figures Are Not NEARLY as Satisfactory! About Plays and Players | -===== Jo®,WE OUGHTA Figure uP Joe, 1 SET THE TABLE. By BIDE DUDLEY : | OUR EXPENSES, Vi Ae | GReceries — | allie eae aieak LAST WEEK FOR peed E threatened ia, Cnbhsntins ; THE TASLE Cost | meat — = Ww ABOUT “THE CAI Aheatrieal comtracte - between (ert), aed tall Sic t gaia’ to. peomets FIGURE OUT “THE CAR cosT! sas -- Ho! "the Actors’ Equity and several |¥°%,,4 man came to ey Geek homem! \ ce - managers who are not using Equity |looked him over and asked: forms of acreement did not maferial- |“ ‘O'Hara, if T promoted you do you| tze at tho’ Hotel Astor yesterday as | think you could maintain your equi- Norium? por wchedule, The peace celebration |" Vig, sor, Oi could,’ replied O'Hara, dampened the fighting ardor of | That |s, Oi could on $2,200 a year, but | everybody concerned. That is, no- | Bot on $1,400.'"" Wedy wanted to get into arguments With the glorious feeling of victory tn A lelL AG fap Li auie ta the alr, 80 the Equity Council met at | ijiy, js med. Somebody has sent bim Boon and called the affair off tem-/u set of golf sticks, and he doesn’t | porarily. It is probable that the meet- | pl } fhg will be held Sunday afternoon, but that isn’t definitely settled, “This 1s no day for dissension,” enid one of the Equity officers. “But,” WHAT'S “Th' IDEA?. ae oe “ } What can T do with ‘em?” be sald last night, “if anybody thinks I'm | going to hit a ball and then act nutty | like @ squirrel trying to find it, he's wrong.” “there'll be other | REAL PATRIOTISM. shes | Louis Mann and Dr. J. Lewengood | were out with the George M, Cohan BOXES BRING MONEY. |forces yesterday trying to beat the | After tho Wnright dinner at the| Lambs at paving Fifth Avenue with | Friars Sunday night boxes for the |silver. Mr. Mann told the doctor to} ' § “WHERE IN NEW Y car 6 id Friars United War Campaign Frolic | do the collecting for him so he might | SOMEWHERE IN NE YORK Between Meals @ auctioned. Ten boxes brought |save his voice. Dr. Lewengood com- we $20,000. ‘The auction will b tinued | plied, on, under instructi . es 3 > a 7 7 = —r $20,000. ‘Fho auction will be continued | plat, and’ soon, "under Instructions | [7 AO corse CARIES GoTTA ITS TERRIBLE TRAE PAW SNOOPS AROUNO TH’ SIDEGoARD ;THERE AINT. | Daisy Sturs THIS BIRDS GoT | Haw Do YeuketP Mann, he was heard yelling: ¢ LAY OFF EATIN? MUAY LD is AND LAN MUCH BETWEEN HERSELF WITH AN ORD! Fo. afternoon, ‘The Frolic ought to net) “Th Lous M ‘Toss a dollar AVE ALL TEA, qt cs! CARRIES = ex BETWEEN MEALS AND DSONA 4 N ORDER To OD ON AN $76,000. Oo Ret lin the bat and be'll let you call bla TWEEN Meas! (ay YUREN DEANS og Ny SETESN BUNCH oO! GeApEs! Vite BeTAeen ‘BRors BE nore “aor one souneiome *Louls'—once.” 6 4 Hi , SLT IT OowA- MUST HAVE BEEN PUNK. eee ———— 2 8 SE Won {( ares SWAY CTBT 5 MEALS: MEALS! “Say,” said a nice young man to us Gossip. | : 's Fi on Broadway yesterday, “a friend of| sergt. Irving Berlin is going to| ONE LUMP, : d AOMERS RALTAROL Ree te ite. oy THE OA, S.usn! yours was on the: vaudeville bill at} prance in three % to take somo TWEETIET)S Gosn! I Goran IN PELE. ame EER INNER! IT GIVES ME our theatfo in Union Hill Sunday] music to the soldi APPETITE LIKE A MEALS CAE TAKS . £ al IWOlGRS TION night.” The Strand Theatre orchestra gave A\IPPOROTAMUS! ITS AEALTHT! 1 OMPIN AWFUL He mentioned the performer's name|, peace concert outside that play- : - scams ANS ‘ - Ie OL EAT ANYTHING and we asked how the fellow got] house yesterday, il rn : , GETWEEN MEALS! slong. So popular are the Gilbert & Sulli- } . young man, "“Ile'll never come back] pe retained there next week, there. His monologue was pun Irene Franklin and Burton Green @ “Poo | have joined the cast of “The Passing § “Yes, id the young map, “He| show of 1918” now in Philadelphia, ee ased a lot of the stuff you've been — printing in Your column.” "Well," we asked calmly, “what do] SR ECIAN MATINEDS: ciNlee you think they'll do with the Kaiser ere etes Ger wont ~) A BOSTON SUGGESTION. ton may be the intellectual etty | ¢) seracked up to be, but sometimes paoubt it. A few days ago wel a), pages @ paragraph about a man ded to wri a eda he could fh From Bi “Oh, he was terrible,” replied the} van operas at the Park that they wiil an | ¢ ee ree ee ES Te give special matinees at *, namely the Astor, the if ] A four he Ley NI I) fa yea Is Not to Be Sneezed At! a ) é ‘ oe |" | a a have dally mat s of | fi L Kast’ at the Cohan & MAVERICK RHYMES. ares ¥ T Jt to Rants Harris, and there will be special per Chin formances at other houses, w parsue him. —_—_— Ad deal Lilt oul paste alter paste, ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. THIS PLAY GROWING. Smith—There is no age limit on| of the ¢ surprises of t leville, | " yah (ceed Ny aeatitch in Time,” Boi Ibran—Yes, she is (be original Sand w Nobody’ te"Srindstone Oeorge ; Irene Fenwick featured, at the Vule an Russell, He finds his wife asleep whea . ry om hath hut it ran pat A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. | he comes home at two Am age daily until d Lottie D. Meaney, who are threatened with rea w that the inf d, the Kalser wh over, bring on 5 ‘Thanksgiv SURE O'HARA COULD FOOLISHMENT Former Deputy Police Commission Well, Mabe er George 8. Dougherty tes tho foi A lovely, 9 lowing story “James J. Corbett wus speeding in ; his automobile THE CHESTNUT TREE solid wilver, | My (riend, how lh SE ssh. oes —_ instead of/@ patrolman ai $, ht “Fh replied O'Hara, "Then take this rd to my Per women Invist on w >, John," interrupted ens Sumstead’s Worm Syrup wi. j4 ikind but firm. “I won't bear safe and sure, any criticism of wy ex's apparel unul you explain why so many men Wear collars and @uspenders to heb Weather,”