The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1918, Page 14

THE NEW PLAYS ~~ “Oh, My Dear!” | ia Parlor Musical Comedy BY CHARLES DARNTO NCE again the Princess Theatre offers the sort of musical comedy that means little more than a parlor entertainment tn “Oh, My Dear!" is dainty and youthful, but in spite of the fact fhat dt lasts until 11.80 It lacks the test of the hour. Now York Is patient, Yet it demands something more than tunes and things to keep its eyelids buttoned back. The book of “Oh, My Dear!” 4s 80) bright dreary that one can only exclaim, “Oh, |in her youthful and aside from my!” and wonder why Guy Bolton | singing nicely she has a way of doing Hasn't turned out better stuff, P, G.|the sort of thing whe does without Wodehouse has written one or two| making you feel she is doing i, Ap- Gevor lyrics, among them “Phoebe| parently unconscious of her assoct- 48now.” In his words, “Oh, Phoebe| ites, she sings and dances charm~- Snow, who buys your ticket to Buf-|ingly. Joseph Santley again turns @ falo?” This 4s the song of the piece, |clever foot; Roy Atwel makes the and it is sung with an air of sophis- | best of a Broadway song, and Georgia tiation by Juliette Day that brings|Caine lives up to musical comedy, ft close to Broadway. traditions as a time ied bap et | ar, but Miss Day ts never | the end if that's what chorus giris are always | lik for anything more? Ivy Sawyer is also desirable: to start just a thought toward STORY to the effect that Roland ing, | cafe whe Bill at the West, having made a success | Hr Oita eaining. It's such a small te er 1s dreamin, suc! ! of his play “The Unknown | ining and it cannot do harm. "Twill Purple,” intended to buy 4 country|add to the Joy of your dinner, And home, printed in this newspaper, has} maybe ‘twill send out a comforting flooded him with letters from people m to—well, we'll just say to Bill nner, who want to sell him property. One from Bayonne, N, J., particularly in-| torests him, as it has tickled bis risi- bilities. It reads: “Dear sir—I read you are going to} have 4 countrified ‘house. Ja think you would like to live in B: onne as they are an oll works t looks right out on my house. oll, particulara and Jt keeps the| | Yniakeetcra away. . There is a bath- | organization's protest will ibe sent to room if you like it, backstairs and |. M. Simmons, Chairman of chicken coop. Not Broadway chick- | Senate Finance Committoc, ens like you folks feeds lobister, but rrTTy egy kind fina The back poarch is GOSSIP. swept by a breeze from the bay and Harry Lauder sailed for America no dead fish to make it awful. Come|from Liverpool Nov. 25. over to dinner and seo it and anyway| Theda Bara, after a week's rest, you will have a lovly time. Myjhas gone back to “vamping daughter plays the piania, maybie| Catherine Lee, formerly Winthrop tunes from your show, ‘The Purple|Ames's ‘Toxen TO OPPOSE NEW TAX. From tho Hippodrome © news that a club i t trons of that ainst the m on theatre 5 fe that it will lave tative in each State, ‘The press agent, writes Poppie.’ Yours, Mrs. Blank.” Worm from Paris asking for candy. TT] S, L. Rothapfel became a film direc CUR OWN POPULAR SONGS, tor recently long enough to direct} the en in “Too Fat to * with McIntyre. “Betty at Bay” will have its first American performance to-night in It will be brought to Broad- neron Sisters of “Little went up in an aeroplane ‘al Station yes- ‘or ten pe of vfepe de chine or willy-nilly, And an the pom flah Lied, Vhewe Works sho loudly said ‘ Chor, P14 ky w Will janitar, Hag ta. gun I'd ‘shoot hima: 1 gam't know what be done it onan orto ui ald mo bad hoe water, here vl Mad fis word "to, back it; time t ‘bade I think, ‘my dees, my sealehin Jecket, Mae West, the stagestruck country ‘gir! in “Some Time,” sang her baby | vampire number, nd Me Any Kind of a Man,” to some convalescent sol- = dlers at a base hospital recently, and BAIRNSFATHER PLEASED. jit helped them so the doctor asked Capt. Bruce Bairnstather, co-author | her. to sing tt again. of “The Better ‘Ole,” sailed for Eng. | Marcus Nathan, managing director | land recently, lof Terrace Garden Dance Palace, ad- On the way over he t wrote Mr. and Mrs. Coburn congratu. | Vises Us he has made a discovery, Tt lis, 1f you would avold colds, dan lating them on the way they stag fis play, Ho sald. Mr’ Cabarnn Oig| Ho says that ail during the influenza | Bil was tho best portrayal of the |¢Pidemic he did not hear a single character he ever saw and ever| Person sneeze or cough in tho hall heyy He belleves the exercise attendant upon dancing makes one Immune to BY WAY OF DIVERSION: colds, &e. To-morrow’s Thanksgiving; the tur- = keys are dressed and soon pumpkin A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, | pies will be. baking. The day will; The Ladies’ Helpful Twenty of bring joy throbs to many a breast. In| Wellsville has arranged a big some, though, there'll be a b hing) Thanksgiving dinner for the town's for hundreds of loney jads, far, far, POOT, but 4s yet hasn't been able to away from home whiere the heart’s| find any, ever turning—who'll dine in a Hut with the Y. M. C. A. and do some tall thinking and yearning. Bill Skinner! will know that in Kalamazoo che folks} @t the home place are wishing, and) maybe his plate and bis nagkin ring. | too, are there while the good things they're dishing. A picture will cor to his mind with his pic, that's yet a trifle distressing, and m: tear will appear in his eye as Dal) before’ bows his bead in the blessing. I beg Priso: of you, readers, while carving away I'm the for joved ones, asx dishes are st across the FOOLISHMENT. *t learued to ph 1 know I'd get_slapied on. the wrist,"* FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Judge (to prisoner)-—Your face ts! be aj very familiar, Haven't I seen you Most likely bartender et. you have, | in the saloon | THE FOOLISH CREDITOR. Navy has warned contractors time N Admiral said the other day: out of mind to leave tho middlemen “Those navy contractors who | lone. "Yes," the Admiral went on, “the contractors who bam - boorled by midd oolish as the colored ge ho wa owed $4. blag After trying in vain to collect his #4 the colored man consulted a law-| yer "What reason,’ the lawyer asked, | ‘does the debtor give for not payls } Nd eaid the n anxiously paid graft commissions to mid- | dlemen were very foolish, for the) f colored gentle- gimme a mighty MARLEY 2% IN 10 don me dat EVON 24 IN. _ [tinea on Star —o AN EXPERT. | T ts a regulation in the Government| Balloon School in Fort Omaha that, no matter what tho weather conditions may be, all the windows in, the barracks must remain open at night, During the frigid weather last winter the post surgeon made a nightly insnection to see that the cadets were sleeping correctly. As he| Was making his rounds one night} when the thermometer had shriveled 32 he came on a ec y covered, head n of blankets ang The surgeon shook the “A up. "—Wash- | Aad Magtime Viane Viazing ‘Beginner end Advanced Adult Pupils Accepted, the | = ig WINN SCHOOL 0: Stud iW “I ought to know how—I've bey doing it for twenty-three years,” w: that to th Wedne LITTLE MARY MIXUP MARY~ WHAT ON BARTHE ARE YOu RUBBING WATER OW THE TABLE CLOTH For, * THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY WELL YOu'VE BEEN A Good Cook EMMA- AN’ WE'RE DAWGONE SoRRY Youre LEAVIN’ Ud! ! coMIc PAGE | lay, November 27, 1918, WELL, YOu ALWAYS “TAKE 4 CENT out oF MY ALLOWANCE . FoR Bvery sror,] et on ~e; ny S NY, ARE SOU BETTERIN’ YouRseLF “EMMA'S Woprrient, 198, Press Pubtjohing Ce. UN. . Ree ie Wort IIM-ER- GONNA GIT "MARRIED" Neineetofe= Yd - @ COUN THAN Well, There Might Be a “Casey” in the Bunch at That! IT must BE CASEY! He's GOT TWRED OF WAITIN AN’ COME OT TO LOOK SomMEBoW's iN Tear, MisTER Jinks! STSIE ANNO WOCTSIE To: BEFoRE WE START To aoe One WHOLE GoSBLE UP THis GoSBier LET'S EVERYBODY GIVE THANKS THAT THE war's over! LOM AMT TONE GEORGE AIR AMONG'EM! JAROLO'S HOMERS. 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