The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1919, Page 14

By BIDE 6. MOSS, who owns and op- B. graue @ string of popular Priced vaudeville and film! theatres in Creater New York, has taken over the Broadway Theatre 5 and will open ft under hie manago- | ment on May 2 with @ feature photo- | play policy which will be expanded in| the fall to include vaudeville, His lease is for @ term of years The) house will be redecorated. Mr. Moss will install an orchestra of fifty pieces and a big pipe organ. Vocalists will De used on the programme also. | A WORKMEN'S THEATRE. A theatre for working people to be, known as the Workmen's Theatre, is to Be opened In New York undor the! auspices uf the United Labor Educa- tion Committees. On the committve| mamed to work out the details of the! plan are Richard Ordynski, B, Iden Payne, Pmanuel Reicher, J. M. Bul- ish, P. Guledter, J. Schlossberg, Jo= seph Koven and Bertha Broad. The season of the Workmen's Theatre will! open in the fall. The house is yet to! be acquired. ANOTHER HAMILTON PLAY. The Mesars. Shubert have arranged to produce a new play by Cosine Hamilton, whose comedy, “Scandal,” is a big hit at their Garrick Theatre, Chicago. A FIELD DAY AHEAD. The Actors’ Fund Field Day, to be held at the Polo Grounds Sunday afternoon, April 13, promises to be a big success The programme will be made up of baseball, athletics, fun and music, Year! White will do an aeroplane stunt over the field, MISS MAYO EXPLAINS. Margaret Mayo wishes !t known that she is not sole author of the film “Poor Boob.” Several printed notices to thia effect have caused her to ask this column to state that the picture was made from a play which she wrote with Zellah Covington. The original idea was Mr. Coving- ton's and Miss Mayo wants him to have credit for it. All of which is ex- tremely fair of her. HERE'S THE RECORD. Jay Brennan, of Savoy & Brennan, now with “The Follies,” writes us that the tour of that attraction has been one big round of dinners, dances | and card parties. He says “The Fol- lies” has not played to # single empty seat this season, MOTHER'S HAIRPIN, The door bell broke the other day; we couldn't make it ring. Said father: “Bettor call a@ man to} ys fir the blamed old thing.” Said mother: “Not at all, my dear; think what we'd have to pay!” And then she took a hairpin and she fixed it right away. We lost the back door key last week; "twas when the door was locked. Dad fumed and fussed until we feared the neighbors would be shocked, But mother’s hairpin saved the day; she poked, and pretty quick The bolt was turned and all was well—the hairpin did the trick. Therc') nothing much that Mom can't do with hairpins, seems as like, day shel fiz Dade dusted watch; next day "twill be my bike. If we were poor, I'l bet that she could make hard luck take wings By going into business with a hair- pin, firing things, One About Plays and Players DUDLEY SHUSH, OPHELIA! Ophelia Cummings of Brooklyn, here that Rachel several weeks in @ house to get atmosphere for t,”" slips up the following ‘with me, oh, Mister dear! Abide Fast falis the time for guzzling beer, There are many Rachel Crothers In my boarding house, and others, Absorbing prunca to gather atmos phere. A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY. William W, Randall ts ready swear that Browdway will & giimpae of the new musical comedy, “The Perfect Man,” which Adeline Loltzbach and he are writing. It is about completed. J, Fred Coots has furnished the score. Mr. Coots is the composer of @ new lullaby called “Cuddle-Up Harbor. AN ABSENT MINDED MAN, Marcus Nathan, managing director of Terrace Garden, Inc., has indiges- tion. Before starting on a walk through Central Park yesterday he bought 15 cents’ worth of peanuts to feed the squirrels. Then he beg dreaming about h ° forgot the squirt GOSSIP. “The Kiss Burglar,” Nora Bayon Theatre to- open in Chicago Easter weck. Leo Newman's fiery steed, Boots, looked in the lobby of the Longacre Theatre recently and sneered at Char- ley Harris. Gus Edwards claims to have a “find” in Madeline Van, a girl who | is singing in bis “Attaboy” produc- | tion, Mitchie Itow will give a dance re- cital at the Greenwich Village Thea- tre Sunday evening. Kitty Berg, formerly of the Winter Garden, now of “Tumble In,” ts at- tracting much attention with @ bow dance. The long and well-selected bill will be in evidence at the Winter Garden concert to-morrow night Adele Rowland has been engaged by John P, Slocum to play the lead- ing role in “The Lady in Red. The first of Claire Briggs’s cartoon films will be shown at the Strand for & week beginning to-morro: Henry Hull of * * will play his original role in “The Man Who Came Back" when that comedy is filmed. George Vivian ts to be stage man- ager of “Good Morning, Judge,” suc ing Cecil Clovelly, who goes to ne Jest. David Belasco’s comedy “Daddies” will reach {ts 260th performance at the Lyceum Theatre to-night. A Ralph Ince film cal Irtuous | jen” will be shown at the Fulton Theatre to-morrow evening. E, K. Lincoln is the star. | Billie Burke has renewed her con- | tract with the Famous Players-Lasky Film Corporation. Marcelle Carroll, who will be seen as a chic French girl in “Come Along,” opening at the Nora Bayes Theatro Tuesday night, ia the wife of Farl Carroll, who writes musical comedies. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES, usual Grenthal—Yes, Daly played in “Kisses.” Gaxton succeeded him. Small—Ask Meyer Cohen, Astor Theatre Buildin A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. ellsville is the home of a man named Bone Head. There are others in the town too, FOOLISHMENT. Black Pinto was a woolly dog, Who used to sit and scratch; Tho he could scratch his back and ears, He couldn't scratch a match, about your lyric. 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