The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1919, Page 18

ae COMIC PAGE Wednesday, February 26, 1919 ‘ ED HEART,” termed “an ex- plosive comedy,” written by Richard Fletcher, will be played at the Republic Theatre next Sunday evening. George F. Miller is tne man in charge of the production. The theme is Bolshevism, and, owing to the timeliness of the subject, the especial performance was arranged. The cast includes Olive Wyndham, sobyna Howland, Susan Yorke, Gilda Varessi, Hugene O'Brien, Carl Diets, Ww. Thorne, John Robb, Charle Hanna and Douglas Ross. Gilmore staged the play. MISS NORMAND AS “818.” Mabel Normand has just finished o film characterization ot that well- known pig-tailed person, “Sis Hop- kins,” made famous by Rose Melville. # After Miss Normand finished “Peck’s Bad Girl,” Samuel Goldwyn acquired the rights to “Sis” for her, and Mise ; Melville rendered her valuable assist- ance in devising costumes and in- ‘venting stage business. It is a very fanny and otherwise interesting pic- ture, SENTIMENT, AH ME! feeling sentimental to-night (its 2 P. M.), so we're going to write & rhyme about a girl we once knew, What matters it If she ts forty and fat now and has nine children? We're going to push her back into the past jong enough to Way down in my heart, I am free to confess, Ts a yearning—a yearning for you, 1 ace you again in that calico dreas, Or that little old gingham of blue; I amile when a dimple I sce, in my mind, Tt renders impotent my pen, To all but one girl for a moment I'm Dlind— Btone blind, but I'm happy again. Tm dack in the days which were never complete Without @ brief visit with you, When moonlight was mellow and flowers more sweet Because of the heart throbs I knew; es I atroli in the lane where the trees 4 ‘met o'erhead, With you tripping light by my side, I revel in dreams of @ youth that is dead— That ended a love when tt died. Our paths may not meet as we travel through fe, I'd rather they wouldn't, I guess, I'm cranky ond old while you're somebody's wife, A meeting might bring us distress; But down in my heart ts that picture of you, At times it te vivid and then I ait here and dream of a love I once knew, And then I am happy again, THE GAMEST LITTLE GIRL. Paul Frawley, at a rehearsal yeo- "Come Al " the new musical comedy which 0] Apollo, Atiantic City, singing a song called “Moth: 3 when 4 little chorus girl began to ory. The other girls comforted her and she About Plays By BIDE DUDLEY “| Bhe loved to cat tafy in Summitt, went th with ber work very and Players Now, TAKE Them AND Pot THEM BESIDE He “TRONK Gone “6 “PALM Beach, ake You 2 SOME WITTE PLEASURE “TRip § OF, IT ISNT A PLEASURE “TRIP — I Sor 6 “Ke MY Toot+-BRuSH AND EVERYTHING @ PERTH AMBOY GIRLS, “Bing” sends us this one, so blame Dim, girls: We have read of the Janes, With their heads full of brains, And of others quite fair to sce, But for unalloyed joy, Go to Perth Amboy, Where they're chock full of T. N. T. THAT SUMMITT GIRL. ‘There appeared in this column re- cently the following rhyme: And ate it each time she could bum it, Her teeth are gone now, And like Rosa, the cow, Where food is concerned she must gum it. | Charles A. Leedy of the Youngs- | town Telegram, liked the rhyme so| much he wrote a “sequel.” Here it is: A lady we once knew in Summitt Had a uke and she surely did strum it, But as far as the air Ta concerned we declare She couldn't sing, whistle or hum it. Then along came Ted Robinson of the Cleveland Plain Dealer with ‘the following echo: She stuttered, this lady of Summitt, And failed, though she tried, to o'er- come it, | She'd gurgie and sputter, | Then ahockingly mutter: | “G-9-9-0-0-9-908h dummit!” | Now who will furnish the next | | Boo -Hoo! MY PooR HEARTS SES BUSTED 1° “THINK ZX SHOULD G8 THIS Tay } OUR UDAUGHTER REFUGES i ° SHE CAME “To Live WOH * LIEUT. Ac “Pr Te GOoFUS-AN' HERE GHE eek ee SOGRAP + OF HIM “TAKEN IN sheet slo cod dalle WILIAN CLOTHES"! verso? HORNING IN. ‘Witiam Horning, an artist of Johnstown, N. Y., having heard that @ new donkey at the Hippodrome —_ @ name, boldly pens us like “If this donkey is a kicker name him Distance. Distance lends en- chantment to the view.” | Back to the brushes, Bill! | GOLDEN 18 INSPIRED. From Palm Beach comes the report | that Winchell Smith, Flo Ziegfeld, Morris Gest and Irving Berlin, while strolling around hand in hand the other day, came upon John Golden writing a song called “My Palm Beach Jungle Queen” under a banana tree. Each of them wrote a verse and put the song on (pardon us) the bum. Gossip, The press agent says Erno Rapee, conductor of the Rialto orchestra, 19 mad because the films interrupt his musical show. A bird show, Itmited to canarias, will be held on the stage of the Globe Theatre, Tuesday, March 4 ‘The Canary” is playing there. Al Jolson, of “Sinbad,” is a full- fledged deputy sheriff of Alameda Great) Cal, If you need a rest see BLANCHE - 1 WAS LYING YESTERDAY WHEN L SAD THEY WAS RATTLESNAKES ON Th DESERT! WHY GEE — (T'S WINTER Now, AW “TW'SNAKES ARE ALL ASLEEP IN “THEIR, LIL’ CAVES iN “TH'ROCKS' HAW - HAH! 1 PUT ONE OVER ON Yat! ay! 1 Guess 1 CAN SQUARE MYSELF By TELLIN’ HER YMA BiG Liar! AND How Do 1 KNOW Gosh! {ye SIMPLY GOTTA You'RE NOT LYING “To ME FIGGER OUT SOME WAY To INDUCE BLANCHE “To TAKE “THAT “TRIP INTO “WW DESERT. 1 suRE stuck my Foot INTo (T YesTERDAY! Winston has returned to the cast “A Little Journey” at tno Vanderbilt Theatre, Bingo, @ scrawny Little white dog, bas joined the cast of “Come Along.” He has drawn three bones already as advance salary. Robert Rendell has joined the cast of “Come On, Charlie,” a new comedy now in rehearsal and intended for Broadway. Gaillard T. Boag ts engineering the Moulin Rouge ball to be held at the Luke's Hospital. voted well. She had cried because mother died Monday night at ot. That's all tnat the other members of the com- her , except her the Amsterdam Opera House, March 11. Doris Kenyon, film atar, has beon doing so much flying in Florida that her manager, Theodore C, Dietrich, has lost six pounds. SOMEWHERE IN BROOKLYN. pany unanimously @amest little girl in the world, ON THE RIGHT TACK, During the performance of “The Invisible Foe" at the Harris last night, while the heroine was straining every nerve to get in touch with the it, there came @ rapping from be- the scenes. ‘The stage er hed suddenly decided to tack a Police Gazette picture up on the wall. The noise gave the wituatton a realistic touch and the management decided to “keep it in.” Tho stage manager wil be given @ lot of pictures of Durlesque queens with the request that he tack them all ap—one each night. TATTLING ON ARTHUR. Judge!” is pla; bas decided to place the 8 RS (Standing Room Only) sign with another reading, O 6." As explained by Olle’ new one means “Sitting on Stairs.” Fine, but wait till the house fireman ts to-night's issue of The Evening orld, He'll change the sign to "OU T.” A BIG NIGHT AHEAD. John Mears, Manager of “The Cen- tury Midnight Whirl,” predicts that old John Barleycorn will be handed a rousing bon voyage on the night of June 30. He says the reservations for tables on the Century Roof already o|piayed Hans Nix in “The Telephone No Wonder They Worr, Over How Much Weight the Bridge Will Stand! 7 DYA BEUEVE WHAT YA SEE PAUDES GoT A NET - IN TH PAPERS! PIPE TH' JUNK ISONTRAPTION FoR THATS TAKIN ‘THESE Goors Homr, TERIA GS AR & THESE TRIFLES ARE A BIT HEFTY iN THEIR WEIGH ESE Se Lionel Hein postal-cards us from Italy to say he has quit the brewery business and is doing some tall tour- isting. The El Rey Sisters, roller skaters at the Hippodrome, are to appear in & new revue to be produced in Lon- don in June, We have just received an announce- ment from the Park Theatre stating that there will be = special matinee there on Lincoln's Birthday. A benefit performance of “Toby's Bow" will be given at the Comedy Theatre next Tuesday afternoon to aid The Rest, @ fresh air home for obildren. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. E. J. H.—Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, W. 8. Hari] d D. W. GriMth have been ca: , it was Louls Mann who ITS ABET HAROLOS Gon’ EVERY TIME Homer. OUT TONIGHT! Look-OT COMMUTES KE PUTS A ' TH'NEW SHIRT AN' THINGS! FIVE TON TRUCK To SHAME! ITS A DEAD GIVE-Awav! AEBS OLO Genera EVEN CAAR.LIE'S Got some, CEUVERY! FREIGAT! AB CROWDS IT : Toots: TH Stee Ts OUTSIDE INTO Wis , ‘ORE FOR W. POCKET! To LOAD Him With” HER PURCHASES! FE YA ORDERED A POUND A LIVER \ From TH! \ BUTCHER 4OULD HG 7 FRom i’ MARKET To TH! Consumer! 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Shall I have to pay another half crown?” “Natura If you change your mind so late in the day you must ex- pect to pay for it.” } ‘Then with | I tole him not to try fifty miles ‘til he gets stronger wif his pen."—Jackson- ville Times-Union, THE EXPLANATION, orator came down Jout. ‘The tittle fellow at ohce madd friends with the Jatest arrival What's your name?" he aske4, ‘Then, when this information had been gi he added, “Are you married n not married,” responded the HE youthful } ' ; - “An!"—a longer pause, he close| man, with a smil ailro: brakeman.” why can’t I buy it at the old price, | you no black suit pee ’ or Pe hs aa from the platform at the clos 5 ‘ ny rere s eee |. _THE TYRANNY OF HABIT. if you had it in stock before the price | "Yes, I have," cried the novice with | Sudden resolution: “Aw, well—leave of his address and many peo-} At this the child paused a moment, We Sos Win one nas arrived at that! was raised?" warmth. “But I'm keeping it for your @ Lieu . J ple pressed forward to shake him by ong, burning to his Mather, oaid time of life," writes a friend,| ‘Because,’ answered the sales- | fune Rehoboth Sunday Herald. — the hand. He accepted the congratu-| “What else was it, mam you HOW DARE THEY! | ‘when she must have a cer. |WOMA, ‘We are required to sell all china GETTING HIM STARTED. lations with a smiling face, but his| Wanted me to ask hi FTER meeting several pals |, k tf : 4 4 : we have at the new price.’ So you|NT WORTH THE EXTRA MONEY | 66 PORGE,” said a Florida manjeyes were on a certain man wh« ae whom he had not seen for jai" mat pope ar tabeeell rete cer, | see what is their gain is our loss."—| 74H bans between two parishion- not long age to aa. old/ lingered in bis gest, The young 190: HE TARR GRITICIOM, ae many weeks, Jones returned to athe rite ff ‘ainda ae ale pepe io WNL es | | ers had been published for the Negro in his employ. I) ewe eet and exte nded his hand to i a" arty fe pang B ome and beauty in a very irritable | Comes indeed the victin of clreuime MADE HIM MAD, | first time in a country chureh,| understand that you intend to give | {ye Waiting man, | gvaied tart winter tn. New F0ry frame of mind. First of all, hehad to 4 . was not After the service the prospective | your son an education.’ “r want to thank you," he said tol, to attend natin = : ! o a ek A Fave. chr Player bridegroom came to the vicar. | “Dat's my intention, sub,” respond-|that gentleman, “for the clos atten-|traredian of the old superdemoustran —< wait till his own gate came round,| 1 have used for years," she said, He admitted it, But that was wFOOR 6 J | padebaghir as myself what ‘tis|tion you gave to my remarks. Your|tlve school. 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