The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1918, Page 22

ae === i © one has ever succeeded in setting the clock for Broadway. pointing the hand at 9 last n Frolic | This 9 o'ci rounders — a @bout that! that it opens a new field for theatre. | @oers intent upon amusing them @elves. It is a whirl of uty, with Women following the road ked by | k show is a show mistane | ‘t make any tit is « Venus, and they are arrayed tn such that costumes Judgment 88 the gorgeous falters with satimate stag | very But quite aside from the beautoons | | Mirls and the marvellous costumes there are clever performances by va Hous members of the company. First of all is Bessie McCoy Davis, who dances with so much grace and such ®& happy-o-luck Hike a light in th sical comedy. Her 5 | dance ch of Joy to ber f an't matter The Irish in her goes to her toes, and whe swings herself about as thous! she were never meant to do anything jon is ©THE NEW PLAYS o “Nine o’Clock Frolic” A Whirl of Beauty _BY CHARLES DARNTON turned a trick that early rounders are « ntertaining | 1 | the COMIC PAGE | Tuesday, December 10, 1918 But in Ziegfeld of “The Midnight likely to play. night the given by Bird Millman, who takes so r that she truly un ace. Unfortu- has little to say that is funny, yet he makes st of the bad job given him. Holbrook Blinn plays the heavy lover as he drinks to the recollection of his seven sweethearts, bi ' mental by “ h has its value in | the spotlight of Zlegfeld as a glori- of show girls. fiend” figured unpleasantly dings, and the "Shimmie” ankly vul fie d with both arraine and were honestly called “Tipperary of contrast, if you Mary, Nk ere Peace so beautifully that she si like a star in the night. And the r wa has never About Plays By BIDE vens in a ne ellman, tar Emily § play by Rita yet, but itis in rehenrgal. It will hay *a@ New York production shortly. “Call ao Ta a musical play by The | took me up, and Tw play has .ot been given a name as|that sum. |my debts and Players | DUDLEY ‘THUR HOPKINS has arranged | pay when the film people came to me w jand asked if I'd write the story. “Tl do it for $920,’ I replied. They id With It 1 Then came th ind 1 didn’t have to go to Hd mething wrong seine here's Wari Carroll, who has been in the | where. We were under the impr aviation service, for more than a year, lean lg ly pectmian owed oF ; ather, that there wa ‘ will be produced by A. H. Woods be- |jent—oh, well, why spoll a good fore long. Bernard Granville, who | story? @erved in the aerial* photographic Ss FEE | 6 LINES THAT SHOUT. | orps, iv now in a position to return to tho stage, and he will have the Principal role in “Call a Taxi.” HE LIKES THE WEST. fh ‘Cecil De Mille, now noted as a pro- ducer of films, was seen at the “Mid- | night Frolic’ last night. He has been Uving in California for about five {cellent actor Years. Asked if he ever intended to |! Mako New York bis homo again, he said: h “Never! Tho West for me until 1/¢ cash in! I wouldn't trade my hone ‘out there for al! Broadway.” Since he was so emphatic about it we didn't attempt to persuade him to trade. BY WAY OF DIVERSION Gaid Silas McGuggin, in Pee 6 | Seasmhnll piavhouee ths ninees defore. With livin’ so high, I don't |]“Kins Me" into reheat rt look for a thing, exceptin’ to hear the by Lionel Monckton and How t old Christmas bells ring. I've told Ma an’ Sue not to figger me in. To Duy gifts fer me I'd consider a sin, They've promised, an’ boys, on the] y Jeve}, I'm glad. This Christmas ain't one fer old hard-workin’ Dad.” “Say, Silas,” suid Grandpa Mc with @ | the are John M Lowell grin; 1 said it last so it) Sherman, Janet Beecher, Gail Kane wounds purty thin, They cut down /and Will Deming. yar gifts an’ you hollered so loud you almost collected a ighborhood crowd.” Old Silas sald: he left them at once, declaring Was a rattle-brained dunce. Jed weeple’s fingers went through gray hair, Said he flush at times, I declare,” DIPPY DOODLEUMS. 1 “On, Mother, my fair one, how are hy does my little pinky-winky ; t that I care, sweetums, ‘but It makes talk. Does my dearest want a shoe horn for Christmas?" *No, no, baby bumpkins, mother could ‘never play it. Why not give her a pair of slippers?” Mother love js joking, She to a couple of bag@&na skins “Truc, little one, but since yoy men- not take ith 7°" tian St, Patrick's Day that eur “another Now I shall let T y BO by without a Why shold Ma Me get fresh with bh “Gwan, you! your block JUST “ Have you ter “R" organizat! nating th the thea “Biesent of t P 6 The big season at the two houses consists of the "R” months, And there you "i." 8. JAY PAYS UP. “How did 1 © rite the film “Wanted for Mu said 8. Jay an last ni 1 te!l you. | expecting to go to war. My | father, knowing how conscientious t 1 obligations, of- | ney amount Advertising Merchandise Beadguarters Gaoes: NCH CO. 1 Boeken SiCor. Park Row. Y. ‘CLEAN-OUTS” BOUGHT & 50.0 F > a hit in thetr gong “Kisse gracefully if there's no quis. cent, was taken to the Woman in Room 13" in for England to- “Si's some four- | children of five of her soldier brothers Hippodrome show yesterday mas week, : Marion Hurley, pronounced by John shaped girl in the world the whole world-—is to be in the new Century Grove show. ref ci ake No Washington's Birthday is o seri. | Succeeded Jano Blake as Molly Con- ous day.” “Nothing but Lies.” " PEAKING at a poi Congressman 4 Alex Sullivan and Lyn Cowan have Mose Gumble n one-step very draught on his head, Heywood Broun admits he's trying o write & play bayed on Don Mar- Anybody wanting to engage an ex should drop Holbrook Blinn a line, If Al Jolson could collect one per royalty on the salaries of all his imitators he could have eggs for breakfast daily, GOSSIP. This column has letters ( pfessional mat- | in Gods" at the; nee of “Difference harles Hayes of the Selwyn offices French Hospital esterday suffering with pneumonia, A. H. Woods has placed “The arsal., In Cross nurses will occupy the » Sunday dd Hour" is and sailors, D'Orsay is leaving ny to look after the As Christmas features a new dance of toys und a new Egyptian dance by Jesiroe Luboveka were put in. the A miniature Christmas pantomime hy w& score of children will be pre- ented at the Btrand during Christ- lenry Meary the most wonderfully yes, even _Mary Harper, last seen in New York in “Nothing but ¢he Truth," has in William Collier's comedy, A THOUGHT FOR To-pay, ban keep a good man down FOOLISHMENT. id young Pelee er a liner FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE “Why Is a flag like the ocean?" “I dunno," “Because of its waves," = > HELLO, DocTar- say, T cant war Two “hours Xcause iF You DONT come COME FoR Two Hours Yer — Now we Quer = Ia MoM WiLt DocToR ME WITH HER MEDICINE HERS TASTES worse “THAN Yours » WELL You KNOW XMAS" 19 NEAR HONEY — AN’ My Lu6T (> ALL Save Gar At Sous NE ALL YouR yee di A P Besa “THERE no AA ' , WAS “SomEBODY * wey NAME > I FoRGor 6 DES DEE WOTS ON ALL THAT DOUGH" A “HAN But Joe Didn’t Tell Her He Had a Date With Ed! 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FORsIL wind ‘Si. my” Sikin CASE ReyrTub Ce ; wv ey GRINDSTONE GEORGE FAR FROM THE MAINLAND. ca! meeting T. Tread way of Massachusetts referred to war-time economy and fittingly related this little anecdote One afternoon a man went toto a restaurant and selected an Irish stew from the bill of fare weed be 4 critical g At, then his vest and then his ar and necktie, and after giv ing it Soon the dish | nee he removed | Copyright, 1914, Prose Publishing Co ON. Y, Gventng Wortt) bad llobody end a Nobody’ to “Grindstone Ocome * He puts the records away when he's through playing them. Double header From Albert a Ieee Taceuley Brook tyr to do?" asked the wondering waiter the patron reached down to untie |his shoos, "This isn't bedtime G al glance, young man," re sponded the patron, “should suffice to show you that 1 am removing clothes." sdtuad “But—but," here, the patron, pointing to the - I must in order to reach yonder tiny island of mutton.”—P! ‘a Ialand « hiladelphia Tel: “What in the world are you trying 4 objected the waiter, ‘ou can't remove your clothes in, can't’ swim with them on,” an-| ‘and swim this ocean of water | |