The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1918, Page 12

COMIC PAGE | Saturday, December 28, 1918 About Plays and ‘Players By BIDE DUDLEY T 1S announced that the plan for the centralization of all theatrical ticket offices in each large city, sponsored by the Shubert, bas been put in jmit her to ap ion by them in Boston, is | Speaking stag now possible to buy tickets for all) CLEMENCEAU PLEASED stows at the five Shubert houses in| y¢ Divector Get the Hub at a central office in the | oy 1 Theatre du Vieux Little Building. Tho Messrs un w pervision bert are now preparing to use the produced Premier Clemenceaw Dian in New York. It te stated the 20 tat “tt aquen ue event of Public will soon be able to get tick the day the armistice was sicned for any’ of the twenty-five Shubert |has received a letter from M. Cle- heatres in this city at @ central | menceau expressing gratification over Mice, The tickets will be sold at| the cordial recoplion accorded his the same rates in vorue at the box | on offices, the only difference in service) TRANSPORTATION RHYMES. Doing that the central office will clow | Ua gut hie arm aremnd hie sito "Abel. Riawerl tae an abe) wens one hour before the time for the| ehows to begin. No Need of Their Staying Idle, You. Know! : WHERG S THe . UTTLE Boys sates ——$—— AND HE WENT our CT <SKATING AND WHAT im, Do You HinK? HE 4 CAUGHT Co_.D AND PF CARS Now, CHLDREN , THIS CHANGEABLE WEATHER You MusT MoT TAKE coLD ~ T WHiew 4 uirTLe Boy ONCE wo GoT sume, ROLLER SKATES FoR author enthusiastically agreed with him. Mr. Davis had not thought o' Miss Brady in | play up to that Messrs. | no idea her filtr nnection wit And thre te Knee) bia baby Wow Ae . SHE ATE TOO MUCH. Joseph Lertora sang to 2,000 chil- | dren from local institutions at the | Strand Thursday morning and Billie Burke distributed packages of candy | Yor be wan going rd ‘The Boo Are Tea, DEAR OLD ROXIE! Wiiliam G. Stewart, the Hippo- | drome stage manager, while in the | THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY MY @TARS! AN'T GAVE ot among them, Leaving the theatre One little girl walled: “I ate ail my Billie Burke candy an’ now I got a Billie Burke stomach ache.” HONORING THE CRITICS, Wishing to honor the dramatic critics of Greater New York, Arthur Hammerstein has named the dressing rooms at the Central Theatre, where) his “Somebody's Sweetheart” is play- | ing, after them. It isn't an uncommon | thing now to hear a chorus girl say she has to lock up Alan Dale or that| there’y a mouse in Heywood Broun. | HART'S NEW ACT. Max Hart has closed a contract with William B, Friedlander to writ and stage a mu view for vaud ville that will b f the most pr tentious girl ac t produced, No ttle has been selected for it yet. saa an | BOSTON MANAGERS ELECT. | The Association of Theatro Man- egers of Boston held an election re. cently with the following result: President, Robert G. Larsen; Vice David E. Dow; Secretary, yons; Treasurer, Thomas B, xlward D. Smith, Charles J Rich, M. Waldron and Fred KE, Wright were named as directors, FOR WOUNDED adalat) , o hundred and fifty wounde: sola will be entertained by tho Friars at the Monastery New Year's night with a dinn and vaudeville chow. Robert Ancruss manager of the club, says he will spare neither | expense nor pains to please the boys. | Numerous well known Broadwayites wil participate in the show, among them being some Hippodrome talent brought in by Bert Levy, the Hip cartoonist. ANENT “FOREVER AFTER.” Joseph F. Monahan writes us to ask it "Forever After” was written by Owen Davis with Alice Brady in view or with no one in view for the principal role. The facts are: When Mr. Davis wrote "Forever After” last eummer he had no par- tioular actress in mind for the part Douglas Flattery, Charles | Ge circus sce Overything’ yee day afternoon, gave levi or |the elephants, an apple d._ she #o grateful she put her .cunk about is neck and hugged him so hard |had to be rescued by Keeper Powers, Mr. Stewart vows he'll never do another friend a favor. GOSSIP. | “The Gondoliers" will be given at the Park to-morrow night at 7 o'clock, for men in uniform only ‘The ‘Rivoll Theatre will celebrate | ite first anniversary during thu com- | ing week. | A new scene and new decorations by Urban will be shown In the Zieg- felt “Midnight Frolict Monday night. The Stago Children’s Fund hold its annual entertainment at the Comedy Theatre to-morrow night. Frank Hope has recovered the two overcoats stolen from him last week. ‘The thief had taken them back to a pawnshop, Walter Catlett of “LAttle Simplic- | ity” is now known as the candy kid Ho gave each of the chorus girl a box of bonbons fer Christmas. A party of fifty boys from Camp Kennebeok D. V. Society saw Al, Jol- son in “Sinbad” at the Winter Garden last night. David Belasco saw “The Century Midnight Whirl” last night and con- gratulated his son-in-law, Morris pst, on the whole show, especially the “Button Me Up the Back” number. Estelle Winwood of “A Little Jour- ney,” at the Little Theatre, has been in America, but two years, yet she has been featured in five productions. Four hundred men from the En- listed Men's Headquarters of the War Camp Community Service have been invited to attend the matinee showing of “The Heart of Humanity” at the | Broadway Monday. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, Jeff Hartley of Wellsville is com- Plaining of hard luck. In kicking his wife out of bed to bi the fires the other morning he ned @ toe, FOOLISHMENT. sxe 8 young firt from Le Dus had gum-drope 10 chew ; th jonday en from elook Sunday -— der the (amily wae bine, will FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, of Jennie. But when William A Brady read the play he (Mr, Brady) folt Immediately that his daughter | was the one girl for the role, The * “Is your husband's typewriter a visible?” “Oh, absolutely! She's so blondined you can sce her a block.” The Day’s Good Stories AN ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT. ‘T the Application Department of A the gas office, a few days ago, @ man wes somewhat taken aback when the cleric said to him: “Ot course you know you will have to leave a deposit of five dollars.” “No,” the man replied, “I didn't know that, What's that for?” “Security against loss to the com- pany.” “{ don't think thft’s fair.” “But, of course, you know, we pay interest at 6 per cent.” “You pay interest at eix per cent?” “On, yes.” “That's different.” ‘The rext day the man approached another clerk at the application win. Jow and eaid: “This is the place you leave de- posits for meters, isn't it?” “Yes,” the clerk replied, “At six per cent?” “Exactly.” Then, to the astonishment of the clerk, the man presented @ big roll of bute and remarked: “| made @ denosit of five dollars and I want to raise it ‘Youngstown Tele- SINGING BAD NEWS. A MONG the passengers on boar & ship crossing the Atlantic] recently was a man who stut- tered. One day he went to the Cap- ‘wan of the ship to speak to him. “S-8-8-8-," stuttered the man, “Oh, I can't be bothered,” said the e » angrily; “go to somebody The man tried to speak to every- body on board the ship, but non: Could wait to hear what be had to At last he came to the captain agai “Look here,” said the captain, “I can tell you what to do when you want to say anything; but if you can't say anything you should sing it” Then suddenly, in @ tragic voice, the man commenced to sing: “Should auld acquaintance be forgot IMPOSSIBLE. R. JAMESTON came home tn the evening with @ feeling of pride, and, as soon as the family were seated around the table, told them of a street fight which he had stopped, adding: “One of the men was rushing at the other with a epade, and if I hadn't stepped between them he would havo beaten his brains out." There was a slight Jameston’s litle gon proudly: “He couldn't beat you, could he, papa?’ There was a long silence, while Mrs, Jameston thought tn vain of something to say to relieve the op- pressive situation.—Tit-Bits, > HE HAD REACHED ABSOLUTE Limir, RS, HICKS, & Maine houne- wife, is #0 painfully neat that she makes life miserable for her family. One of her rules is that all members of tho household must remove their shoes before entering the house. “Bill,” she remonstrated one day with her husband, “I found a grease spot on one of the dining room jchaire and I think it came off those pants you wear in the shop.” A brief silence ensued, then a jyoleanic eruption. “Well, Mirand | for last 16 years I have taken off |My shoes every time I came into but I'll be hanged if Tl this houi wo further,”—Chicago News, muse, when spoke up y brains out of TR DOUGLAS HAIG, the Scot lish Commander in Ch&f of the British armies, once waid at a | London dinner party “A Scot bored his English friends | by boasting about what @ fine coun- | try Scotland was, “*Why did you leaye Scotland,’ « Londoner asked, ‘since you liked ‘the “The Scot chuckled “‘It was like this, he sald. ‘In | WHY HE EMIGRATED. | and never brought to mind, Fpe Moseae cook's fell overboard twenty miles behind.” —Philedalpnie Bulletin, Scotland everybody w as as clover as myself, and { could make no prog-| i, but here'-and he chuckled ere I'm getting along verra You “HID LETTER “TS MAIL “TWo WEEK® AGo! “OUD OUGHTA EE A DocTOR 'BouT “THAT MEMORY, OF ‘fours! 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