The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1919, Page 28

~ COMIC PAGE | Thursday; March 27, 191) | “= Anyway, She Kept Enough for a Few Ships to Float In! ©THE NEW PLAYS o°| = Site's RIGHT So You T60K. IN SOME OVER There, SALT WATER - Dip YOu 2 SHE 1S TosT tow Muct Did You Swaitow 2 Bees | On, MR. LIFESAVER, MARY GoT IN Too DEEP | AHD DRANK UP A LOT | OF YouR ocean WELL, ALL You DONT see “Luck in Pawn” our Here , I swa.nowep Not Worth the Ticket By CHARLES DARNTON NCE aguin we have the play that is a waste of time, “Luck in Pawn" O at the Forty-cighth Street Theatre is that sort of comedy. ‘The author, Marvin Taylor, has succeeded only in putting South- ern California on a level with Palm Beach. The people he brings into his play are the people who lend them- = pelves to magazine covers, not to]joy of a first experience in “society,’ life, A young millionaire, bored with] as it is known on the stage, life made-to-order for him, casts his} The play is ® sentimental trifie,| €ye upon a young woman who has| nothing more. Mabel Taliaferro acts gone in for painting and comes out} simple part in a simple way, and at the wrong end of the brush. In| Roland Young docs his bit very well her effort to keep herself on the crest! as @ youthful millionaire. There is of the social wave she falls back| nothing to be sald about the other! Upon a pawnbroker who fs glad to| characters, for they are dull, be her “uncle” and accordingly uck in Pawn" isn’t worth the Wears evening clothes with all the! ticke About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY be put In rehearsal by Sel- Wen & Co. within a few days. It ts You, HAVE TWo” PHONES” HUH? THIG 16 A FUNNY ONE —IT ANT FINIGHED 16 eZ BUT DAWGONIT MAN — “THERES NOTHIN’ BUT TH “RECEIVER” — WHERES “TH! MOUTH-PIECE” ? Yeo" PAUL" A COMPLETE “TELEPHONE wore mérely lingerie which would hock a leg off a brass monkey, were @ a modest Simian TO OPEN CLUB HOUSE. to be presented in Washington for a spring try-out. The cast will include Margaret Lawrence, borrowed from The new club house of the National Vaudeville Artists, at No. 229 West 46th Street, will be formally opened to-night. More than 100 newspaper men from various parts of the East, will be present. They will be enter- tained later at ‘The Midnight Frolic.” SEASON ENDS APRIL 12. The Soclety of American Singers will end its season of light opera at |the Park ‘Theatre on April 12, Next fall 1t will inaugurate a new season, during which operas wil] be sung ono week each TO-DAY'S THE DAY. Louis Mann's party is on at the Hippodrome this afternoon, One hundred little children are seeing the show as his guests. Martin Herman, general manager for A. H. Woods, bas furnished the candy. THE MAN WHO GREW. Ada Lewis of “Listen Lester” hus &n autograph beok which she passes around among notables and. others for thoir “John Henrys.” Yesterday she sent it to a man with whom sho had once had a slight altercation. . It came back bearing the line: “In your woodpile of memory re- gard me as a stick.” She says heretofore he has been nothing than a splinter. A_NEW FRENCH DRAMA. A. H. Woods is arranging to pro- duce soon a French drama entitlod “Montmartre.” It ts stated that @ well known motion picture star will have the principal male role but Mike Goldreyer won't tell who the guy is. “Tea for Three” for one week only; Allen Dinehart, withdrawn tempor- arily from the touring “Crowded Hour” company, and John Holliday. “Tho Chalienge” is described as a virile play of the present. “SMITH, JONES AND BROWN.” Oliver Morosco aunounces he has acceptéd for production a new musi- eal comedy called “Smith, Jones and Brown.” He hopes the piece wiil at- tract all the Smiths, Joneses and Browns in the country and thus be- come a big hit, A TALE FROM FRANCE. Frank Whitbeck, formerly man- ager of Poli's Theatre, Scranton, now im the service of the Y. M. C. A. tn France, writes us to tell the follows ing story: A soldier, noticing some cans piled on the counter in a “Y" hut, asked: “What's in them cans?” “ came the reply. “How much?” asked the soldier, meaning the p “They're ful A NEW FRAZEE PLAY. H. HH. Frazee wil] present a new play, “The Good Bad Woman,” by William Anthony McGuire, at the Harris Theatre on, Monday, April 7. ‘The cast includes Margaret I!lington, Robert Edevson, Wilton Lackaye. Katherine Kaelred, Hichard Tabor Harel Turney, Amy Ongley an Howard Boulden. “PENNY WI@E” AGAIN. “Penny Wisi ich was seen at the Belmont ‘Theatre recently, will resume its Néw YQrk run Monday ight at the Pungh & Judy Theatre. Susily Pearson and the original New York cast will play {t. This in eashire comedy was gaining popular- fty rapidly at the Belmont when its engagement was Interrupted by a previous booking arrangement fdr the theatre, SH~H-H- H — BLANCHE! 1 SAW SUMP'N MOVIN’ BEHIND “THAT BIG BUNCH OF MESquITE! ak. Gre said the clerk. now Butteroup im drome'’s tabloid version of Gilda Varesi of “A Little Journey” has signed up to act for tho Messrs. Shubert for wo years. Edith Gresham, bert Gresham, sta rolo in “39 Bast,” Broadhurst Monday, A. J. Horbert Is prominently cast Samuel H. Rothapfel’s comedy production for the first Rothapfel Unit Programme. Frank A. Keenoy's new theatre in Williamsport will open to-morrow night with high class photoplays, “Hobohemia’ ix to remain at the Greenwich Villuze Thea.re, despite announcements to the — contrary, “Shakuntala” will be presented at | that house on Tuesday, Thursday and opening at the MODESTY FIRST, SAYS ART. Careful Arthur Hammerstein yes- terday posted on the bulletin board at the Selwyn Theatre,.where “Tumble | th Ia” is playing, @ notice reading: Pian aHernneys. tale ncees aN Irls of this company |. 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