The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1919, Page 20

> aetna ee ae a ee LIVER MOROSCO'S genius has begun to mill around again. Once in @ while this producer takes his pen tn hand and writes the book of @ musical show and when it has been given the Morosco seal of approval he stage Harris he wrote “So Long. Letty and “Canary Cottage” Now he needs a piece for Charlotte Greenwood, the elongated, double-jointed little stage favorite. Miss Greenwood has been | joke (for it is one, we contend) #9 in “So Long, Letty” just five seasons and, having learned it by heart, she) wants to try another one over on her | personality. Realizing that “Letty” | cannot live forever, Mr. Morosco has | begun writing Miss Greenwood a new | vehicle. He usually starts with the | tide and then puts in the “props” and lighting effects. If you happen to have a good title for a musical show ud it to Mr. Morosco, He's had one | Jong enough to write the calcium ef- fects in, but he 4 CRANE Play the title role in a “Capp: company to be sent to Chicago, Oliver Mofosco is organizing such a com- pany and he has about got Mr. Crane astigmatized into the notion of being Cappy. A PROMISING CAST. F. Ray Comstock has completed the cast for the new Middileton-Bolton comedy, “Adam and E In it are Ruth Shepley, Otto Kruger, Ferdi- nand Gottschalk, Courtney Foote, William B, Mack, Harry Harwood, Roberta Arnold, Reginald Mason, Adelaide Prince and Jean Shelby. THOSE YOWLING CATS! In casting the new Lancashire com- edy, “Penny Wise,” which the Scl- billa Theatrical Company has in re- hearsal, Anton F. Scibilia found he needed a man who could imitate the yowling of a cat. Dramatic agencies | sent him eight all at once, and he found it necessary to try them out. | Bach yowled for the manager at his| office in the Knickerbocker Theatre| Tuilding, After half an hour of cat- | calls a number of the building's ten-| ants, headed by the superintendent, | appeared at the Scibilia door and de- manded to know what the manager was doing to all those cats, “T am engaging one for my play, ‘Penny Wise,’ he replied. “Permit ime ta introduce him to you.” He then presented Gilbert Girard and thus @ cat-astrophe was averted. NEW MOVE FOR JOLSON. Al Jolson and “Sinbad” are to move again. This time it will be from the Winter Garden to the th Street Theatre on Feb. 10, It will be the tourth New York theatre for this at- traction, Already Al and his aaso- clates have played the Winter Gar- ice the Century and the Ca- sino. ttle Simplicity,” now at the 44th Street, will go on tour, WOODS “SAILING” AGAIN. At an early hour this morning A. H, Woods was sure he would leave for Halifax some time to-day to sail from that place for London. Five times in the past month Mr. Woods has prepared to sail and then given the plan up. This time he may start for Halifax, anywa) IT DROPS “EVERYTHING.” A wire from Chicago, received by Charles Dillingham, states that the Chicago Hippodrome has discontinued the use of the word “Everything” in connection with its show. The New York Hippodrome is now the only place where “Everything” may be seen. DIPPY DOODLEUMS. “Mother, mother. Stop fiddling around and listen to me. The baby is biting Towser.’ “Ah, mother's little Pee Wee has overlooked one thing, Where baby is biting Towser.” “On the front porch, Momme- Tums. biting Towser.” “Mother Bumpus thanks her little Mushy Gushy boy very much for telling her the baby ts By BIDE it, With Eimer |} | Little Brother, That is where the baby ts 'T HB etreus advance agent was in wants to go out and make the little rabbits quail, while the Laby is biting Towser.” HAROLD IN THE CHORUS. | Harold Swann bas i lv at the Til & chorus ir new When 4 stein diseovered that been driving @ lift he s he'd make a good story tr appealed to the Manager that he put it in the show. Gossip. John Mullen of the Woods f is out of the hospital after a sicg of ilineas, Loretta Pfaff of the Liberty Thoatre, Staten Island, wants to be- come @ press agent, but her brother, Harry, writes poctry. \ Clarence Hibbard, black-face enter- | tainer, begina @ road tour in a new minstre] act this week. Walter Hast, producer of “The| is preparing to send A wecond company on tour in that} play. | Geoffrey C. Stein, Beatrice Prentice and Grace Morse have been engaged st of “Hobohemia,.” | De Vries, Treasurer of the Theatre, in the di-da of a baby boy. The 0th performance of “Three Faces Kast” will be given at the Cohan & Harris Theatre to-night. | Emmett Corrigan ts betting the pl will double that record. ‘The Friars’ Club will have a ladies’ day at its ciub house, No, 110 West 48th Street, Monday afternoon. An entertainment will be given in the Great Hall at 4 o'clock | Geraldine Furrar will be in a box at the Strand Sunday evening, Feb. 9, when her new photoplay, "Shadows," | is shown on the screen. | Marcus Nathan, Managing Director of Terrace Garden, Inc., has been in vited to go to Paris and superintend the launching of a big dan patterned after the Dance | Blanche Duifleld will sin donna role at the “requ ance of “The Mikado” at the Park Theatre to-night. Miss Duffield has sung it many times in the past Mollie King has been out of the cast of the Century “Midnight Whirl” this week and her place has been given to a girl from the chorus, Annetto Bade. Miss Bade han been doing so well that Morris Gest believes be has a “find.” A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, | ‘There’ sign on a Broadway hab- erdashery, owned by two brothers ‘who hate each other, reading: “Bui ness going on during altercations.’ FOOLISHMENT. His Grandma up in Gramatan Got mad at little Dan McCann; Across her knee she placed young Dan— You should have seen old Gramatan. TWO ROBIES. Louts Robie met another Robie the other day who had the Robie family tree in his pocket. After convincing Louis that they were related away back a hundred years, he b: ten. Louis, who hasn't him since, is beginning to believe they aren't related at all. | MORE FOOLISHMENT, They tell me that, in old White Plains, They have some mighty handsome Janes, And, while @ few possess some drains, The others shy at subway trains, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “My son is at Ymca, France." “Where's that?” ‘I don’t know, but his writing paper has ‘Y. M. C. A.’ on it.” WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME. a reminiscent mood. “Tt beats all,” he sald, “what jnotions some peo men in my line.” e entertain about biting Towser.” “Woman, woman, what ails thee? Is it right that the baby should be biting Towser?” “Now Mother Dumpkins is puze sled, She has lost her book on ‘The Proper Habits of Babies! Therefore she cannot classify the fact that the baby is biting Towser.” “That, Lovey Dovey, is unfors tunate, especially since the baby ts biting Towser.” “Aw, forget it, Blooey Ooey! Now get mother the blunderbuss and load it with bird shot. 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