The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1918, Page 28

By BIDE DRE LA CHAPPELLE, the Bwiss operatic impresario who Yecently arrived in New York, is preparing to produce here & number of unique and startling play- leta, some i English and some iu French. They will be not unlike the sketches seen at the Princess under Holbrook Biinn’s regime, Where they will be played has not been an- nounced. Mr, La Chappelle has en- gaged Wells Watson Ginn as bis stage director. The impresario’s orig- inal plan was to produce the French Napoleonic operetta “Les Cent Jours” bere as his first American ven- ture, but he has postponed that step to wait till M. Victor Villemeue, producer for the Paris Opera Comique, is mustered out of the French Army, M, Villemeue has promised to come to New York and stage “Les Cent Jours.” WHEN FATHER PLAYS POOL. father » he's & cool, WSs Se dts tine tine eee an @ his count Iet ve win out, and be ll mimble and pout, ‘say that the cushions are dead, shot, father Kide me « bot, Like, bioke when he lost, on the table he toned amd wanted io bet gy hy ty ‘and ee beat him wilh ease; rer it yet. ra ‘aut whole week Indl and Me didn't epeuk, are bad licked him at pool, ‘Thon Del. to be moran, aaid he over had sen 2 wears was wa’ & foo! GUILD TO MEET. The first public meeting of the sca- aon of the Catholic Actors’ Guild will be beld in the Morosco Theatre Sun- day evening. Victor J. Dowling will preside, Those who will participate in the programme are George M. Co- han, Martin Green, Wilton Lackaye, | William A. Brady, Alice Brady, Don- ald Brian, Elizabeth Murray and the Priendly Sons of St. Patrick Glee Club, with Victor Herbert directing. The Rev. John Talbot Smith, the guild's chaplain, will describe the ac | 7; Uvities of the organization. It is probable that the list of entertainers wil) be extended materially before Sunday. HONORING MISS HENKEL. The Hippodrome management is tendering a box party to Col. Pauline Henkel, daughter of Paul Henkel, in reclation of the work she did for the Fourth Liberty Loan. Miss Hen- kel sold $1,110,000 worth of bonds. honorary Colonel. Father is cons! bly proud. RECEIPTS MEAN EATS. The members cf two companies playing “The Crowded Hoyr,” one here and the other in Chicago, have mado a wager of a weekly dinner on the receipts in the two cities for this attraction. The losing troupe pays for the cats for the winning ong. ‘week the New York company the other, but only by a few dol- lars. The Sunday night performance in Chicago is not counted ty the com- petition. [ The Day’s Good SEVEN MILES AWAY. N American colonel, newly ar- A rived in France, on his first tour of inspection, approached a bentine! squatting behind a hedge 4n4 started to question him. ‘The Yankee shot back a reply in a whisper. Immediately the col- onel flattened out on the ground with more haste than dignity. * After exchanging a few breathless Whiapers with the sentinel, the col- ‘onel whispered: “How far are the Boches from bere?” “about seven miles,” the sentinel back. why the —— are you whis- the officer stormed. like this for weeks; godda replied the soldier, wip- Angeles Times. ———————— ASKING TOO MUCH, HE great success of Samuel Gompers's war mission in Lon- don and Paris led a New York labor leader to say: “Gompers is a wonderful executive, There's nothing be can’t do. Some pt his followers, indeed, demand too muoh of him. “Late one Saturday night Gompers db: ing Dell. He slipped on a dressing gown and hurried down to the door. A little gz stood on the step, She said reathlessly: come home again, and she wants to know if you'll please step round to be and give him a good beat- ‘New Orleans States. , | About Plays and Players — 5 | DUDLEY MISS BINGHAM’S PLAN, Amelia Bingham is soon to act in a repertoire of what she calls League | lof Nation sketches. In order to stage | the playlets to the beat advantage she has decided'to sell at auction rany of the curios and relics now in ce. Riverside Drive home, OUR OWN POPULAR SONGS, 4nd in the hey of “°C. To sing, io manner thus, the girl begant cuores. “1 would wot wed you, Julius Kerr, ‘ou've paver learned to shimmy. My [Ulla heart you cannot sir Like Pie-Faced Bill or Jimmy. ‘poor to le my dog on you; | "4 bite you in & minute (Disgust dance for four bara) He'd Vite you in & minute Gossip. Johnny Dooley has joined the cast of “Listen, Lester!” Thomas Dixon's play, The Invisibie Foe,” will open at the Apollo Theatre, Atlantic City, Dec. 19. Marry Carr! will appear for a lim- ited time on the Loew circuit, open- ing at the Victoria Dec. 9 H. C. Parsons, proprietor of Par- sons'’s Theatre Hartford, is vow | York visitor, He says business is good in Hartford. Robert Jennings of the Fox booking department us ill with influenza at |Purdys, N. Y. Leo Wood, song writer, and Ger- trude Rose aro playing some vaude- villo dates. He wrote “That's What God Made Mothers For.” A film showing Great Britain's part In the war will be exhibited at the th Street Thoatre Sunday afternoon end evening. | The 600th performance of Stuart Walker's production of “Seventeen” will be given in Albany Saturday af- ternoon. Larry McGrath, who used to be a boxer, is now In motion pictures, For a while he tried singing but invarla+ bly lost the decision. Morris Gest has engaged Charles [King for the new Century “Midnight | Whirl.” Mr, King has been in the navy. Eva Barrows Fontaine, a character dancer, has been engaged by I.) Ziegfeld jr. for the new 9 o'clock legfeld “Frolic.” A new Grecian dance was intro- duced in the “Lampland” scene in) “Everything” at the Hippodrome yes- terday. Manager Quaid of Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre kept his audience iv ignorance of a fire raging near that playhouse the other evening by throw- ing song slides on the screen and in- ducing the people to sing. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Little Archibald Evelyn Jones, aged seven, of Wellsville. went to old Judge Bumpus last week and asked if bis name couldn't be changed to Punko Jones. FOOLISHMENT. 1 love good apple, ‘deed 1 do, od every morning J eat two, iut when they're Daked in ‘crust. ob, gvef T tell you what, that's pia for me, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. | Husband—I sat up last night with a) sick friend Wife—When was he taken sick? | Husband—Right after I held four d to bluff me, aces and he ' SANDY'S SMALL PROFIT. ‘“ EAKING about profiteering,” S said the fall man, “brings to my mind the story of the Scotch shopkeeper, Sandy Mactee, who, while talking to the manager of | @ London emporium, said: ‘Ye'll par- don my askin’ ye, ¢ir, but what profits can ye mak in Lunnon?’ “Ob, as for that,’ was the reply, ‘on some articles 6 per cent. on others 10 per cent., and on some 20 per cent.” “Twenty per cent! Man, it's awfu’ “But don't you?’ asked the Lon- doner, “‘Nae sic luck,’ exclaimed Sandy. ‘I can only make 1 per cent. I just buy @ thing for one shullin’ and I seil | it for twa.'"—Boston Transcript, ea” ee THEIR MANOEUVRE, PRE is one that is sent in H about Trumpeters Ruble /Jleo and Forrest Doggett of the Now York barracks. According to our correspondent, the “musics” attended a show in Brook- lyn recently, one of the features of which was @ company of Scotch bag- pipers. Neither enthused over the melodies and both were much per- plexed by the fashion in which the performers marched up and down while rendering their selections, “What makes them move about that way?” asked Allen. A light broke on Doggett. “T'll tell you why it is," he replied; | “it makes them harder to bit,”— | Marines’ Magazine, LIKE OLD 81. | AMES HOPPER the war corre- J spondent who broke all war cor- respondent records by going “over the top” with the doughboys at Cantigny, has a hatred of faking, At a@ fish dinner at Prunter'’s in Paris, a faking correspon¢-at denied that he had ever written any fakes, “well, George,” said Mr. Hopper, | “maybe you're like old Si Peacham. | “T'm eighty-nine years of age,’ gaid old Si in the general store, ‘and I ‘The genera] store keeper gave a t rasping laugh, ‘Well, 81,’ he said, COMIC PAGE Friday, December 6, 1918 | LITTLE MARY MIXUP OF, Mom ~ BRotHER on-H- o SWALLOWED 4 LITTLE BABY worm, He Dip » “S4D2 Corre HHA Oram Pamioning On OT rma Werte? THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY um-m! You SAID tv! 16 THAT RIGHT DEAR- DIDNT, You EVER Love TL 5 ‘You MET ME * OF MY LiFe! AH! Me! Wor A WONDERFUL “THING ” LOVE” 19 # UOE! For Pry saves Come HERE! 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