The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1919, Page 32

NN SS EES } ‘ COMIC PAGE Friday, April 4, 1919 She Thought She Had a Great Idea! © About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY When ft was alll HOMAS DIXON is preparing to| old negro sat still. produce a play 4 “The Red| over the motorman asked MISTER, 18 THaT ‘OuR SIGN ABouT PaYinc #25 FOR CATCHING PEOPLE “That Go INTS TRAT $ AY SIGN / IF You'ns GIVE wail. Wis Me Te €25, Tu was ie Tet. You wio Ss 2 BEEN “TRESPASSING : iT was ME 7 I sar “RIGHT ON THE GRass AND EVERYTHING 9 4 “Why dida’t you jump too, uncle?” YouR Yard 2 Dawn,” which is said to deal) wwe), gan,” replied the old negro Mi With Socialiam. Flora M mald i8| “when Ah seed huh comin’ Ah de ¢ ss Mac-| cided it wah best ter set still, Bo At Jes’ decomposed maself en done it.” HIP WANTS 8. JAY. Luescher, having heard of of S. Jay Kaufman as a ker, has Invited him to 6 a talk at the Hippodrome some be repre! Sunday night. Mr. Lu her promises IN “TEA FOR THREE.” to do his utmost to keep tho tickets Bisa Ryan ts to head the cast of @) out of the hands of speculators and @ird “Tea For Three’ company,| thus give the public a chance which will go North and open at Yar- = mouth, N. S., on April 10. Selwyn & Ca are planning to send other com- panies on tour in this comedy this @pring. 7 —- Well, well! I suppose the next play A REGULAR FELLOW. on Prohibition will be called ‘No Ls During a recent storm Manager) Yes.” es schik Quaid of Proctor’s Firth Avenue The-| OF Perhaps “Dry Is Wet.’ @tre admitted ali men in uniform to | Gossip, | @e show freo, and permitted all Who! pan) gwan is to act in some nice @0 desired to remain in the house all! motion pictures, Bight. A number accopted bis bospi-| The Memphis Blues Band has ar- tality, and the manager had them! rived in town and will jazz it at te have the princ!y role Donald will withdraw from “The In- Viaibie Foe” and will be succeeded tn) o Gray. Miss Gray n Leo Ditrich- arquis de Priola.” appeared = recenti @tetn's play, “The = Se. SPRINGFIELD SPEAKS. Le {ly Mana ( And then we have this nifty from |X, { . of Springticid, Masa, ‘ the new Shipman-Wilde com- edy will be called ‘First Is Last’? }_)— fame And the Increased {Corre IHD Poses Potmatey Om OLY Poon se ort! THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY NoT EGGZ. > TR M = ORIAWERHOE A Loafing Time Is Correspondingly Expensive! WELL ~ WE'VE. GOTTA HAVE “TIME CTY-Y"SEE, AH'M ze DAWGON(T-I CANT ed with coffee and sandwiches.|the Selwyn Sunday night. / G0 ‘You AN' Y'OAY BLAME You FoR Boss"— TUN SPEND AH who had to catch early trains} Kid McCoy has been engaged by | prtw Tit’ Y' DEMANDIN WANTIN’ & RAIGE INCREASED WAGES fat calle with the night watchman, ‘The Iamous Playors-Lasky Corpor, ) DREW Mt B00 % INCREAGE )y WORK DAY! IN PAY~ BUT — ANT We ? SOMETHING WRONG. Rie wore ce Nace eae IN WAGES WHY “TH REDUCTION { a mae Minette Buddecke of “Kast In . stage manager for “A ey AmseES 4 Sam 2 FROM 10 HOURS in = s West,” a play which deals with the! ght,” has written a ( Paes. DAY=To “TWO? nese, after studying the slant-|*k “Here Is the Groom,’ rd fyed language four months, decided principal comedian in @e try it the other evening. To a has a new method of praitor in a chop aucy place she eald:| ishing which he will demonstrate at “Ging tie, how ma? Taw foo! Taw|the Nora Bayes Theatre, feo!" Which in English means “Have}] “Luck in Pawn," which will leave corna, my dear fellow?” or some-| tho 48th Street “Theatre Saturé like that. ‘The Chinaman emiled ® another theatro and replied: “Sorry lady, but all we got is chop @uey.” 18 ART TO BE BUMPED? Leo Marsh, newspaperman and @ance adept, holds up his right ha fQ@nd swears that the Soolety of An fean Dancers, compos of teachers te atill eating free. he Oasis Club will set ‘em up and on the Mth the D, A. will pay the check, John McGhie has written a new opera called “Men of Harlech" which will be produced by the Society of American Singers next season, ef the hich-brow methods of capering "about the dance floor, has chartered box for the Ted Lewis Jazz Ball at febster Hall April 11. Leo wonders ff It is possible that these gentlemen Bave decided to kick a few props out from under the Art Terpsichore. A NATIVE SON AFFAIR. Austin Strong of “Three Wine Fools” is a native son of California In order to show that he loves the old State out West almost as much as he does Broadway, he will entertain at the performance at the Criterion to- night Mayor Rolph of San Francisco and some of the returned California troops, including Col. Cavanaugh. Mayor Hylan has been invited to @rop in also. THE ANGRY JANITOR. Under the title of “Leaks from aleriston Lester’ rights covering Aus- Fountain Pen,” @ contrib hands u®/¢tralia, New Zealand and South Af- The Janitor stood in the court, His features wore a scowl; "Most any one could see that he Was mad enough to howl. Bis little daughter poked her head Outside and cried: “Oh, dad, The tenants all are asking why You're mad.” He shook an angry fist at her And cursed the world at large— “You tel them this,” be bellowed sent us the following little frappe forth, “Just as I say it, Marge. Beplain that I have got a grouch That always ia in force, Peoause 1 am a janitor, Of course!” 1 ' HE DECOMPOSED. ‘An old negro was q passenger on a y car yesterday when | bumped into another car. The other passengers left the car, bat the “French Fried”— brat’ ' sthe way 1s usually order fener oiatons, ut you've never | rnat you are @ devil, pro tem.” | able to fry them at home | jas they do in the restaurants. (With SAWTAY you can get | mat” that same tempting golden- {brown—that same crisp outside, and mealy in-| | WASN'T SO VERY WRONG. Again the title of that new Ship- man-Wilde comedy has undergone a change, William Harris jr. has decided to call It “Dark Horses." George V. Hobart's play, “Come-On Charley,” will open at the 48th Street Theatre Tuesday night. It ts founded on stories by Thomas Addison. Lieut. Mark Reardon has returned from service in France and has be- gun writing a comedy, Ollver D. Bailey bas provided the lady ushers at the Fulton Theatre with new uniforms cut on the bias and everything. Loney Haskel) is dancing the Rol- sheviki je. He wears false whisk- ers and a scowl Clarence Derwent has been engaged by John Cort for “Claudia,” in which phine Victor will have the prin- 1 feminine role. Walter Jordan has obtained the rane Press Puntaning Co GUY Breed Were cameelal 2 Bue Coun! HAN. 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