The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1919, Page 28

—_— By BIDE 5 me a mes etn A a em me me v | William 1. Thompson, George Gra- ‘the patronage of bis play has caused * Roland West to decide to close “The BDORGE BROADHURST ts piin- ning to give a new play a try- out next week in Baltimore, It is called “The Crimson Adibi” and it {8 @ dramatization of Octavus Roy Cohen's novel of the same title. In the cast will be Harrison Hunter, ham, Robert Kelly, Robert Barrat, Blanohe Yurka, Bertha Mann, Edna James, Inda Palmer and Mary Foy. “PURPLE” TO CLOSE. His inability to obtain @ theatre of Sufficient capacity to accommodate Unknown Purple” Saturday night at the Lyric. Previous booking for the Lyric brought about this situation. Mr, West will send the play on tour Next season and it should do ex- ceedingly well. A SONG OF THE FARMER, TU sing you a song of the hard working farmer, The fellow who works sizteen hours a day, HeU coddle Dame Nature, and pet her and charm her, 4 system the farmer knows how . to make poy. ‘We used to regard the poor fellow with pity, When farms were all mortgaged and produce was low, But now, hully gee! When he comes to the city, ‘We find that Zeke Wheatfeld ta just the whole show. A peck of potatoes wilt buy him « cady, A tie he can get for a pint of green peas, A deat will buy gumdrops enough for his lady, An onion will bring @ nice cane, 4f you please, Hie purse is 20 fat it will shock you, golding you! Oh, he's wasing wealthy while | prices are Righ, A song of the former I promised to sing you, _ Well, what do you think of it? - Neither do I. HITTING IT UP, ‘The members of the “She's a Good Fellow” company, playing at the Globe Theatre, went out on a pleasure “toot” en masse yesterday, First they “naw the parade of the 77th Division from seats in a perfectly grand grand- stand at Sist Street and Fifth Ave- nue, furnished by Charlies Dilling- ham; then they were dragged off to a dinner by Jerry Kern, their happy little composer, and to top off the round of fun, they went to the Hippo- drome in the afternoon and sat on the bleachers in the circus scene. ; Stars and chorus mingled just as/ though no social line existed. After the matinee Mark Luescher, man- ager of the Hippodrome, met the visi- tors and explained to them the in- tricacies of his new calf at Shady Brook Farm. Verily, @ fine time was had by all. ONE WAS HAPPY EITHER WAY. MINISTER, meeting a parish- A joner of his who had been quite recently married, and about whose domestic happiness terrible stories were rife, muted him and said: “Well, John, and how is all going on?” “Oh, happy enough,” returned John. “I'm glad to hear it. You know, there were rumors of rows or’—— “Rows,” said John. “Oh, yes there are plenty of rows; whenever she sces me she catches the first thing at hand, 4 dish or anything, and fires it at me. It she hits me, she's happy; if she doesn't, I am. Oh, we're gotting on “Tit-Bits. ae AR PUTTING ONE OVER. OUGLAS, aged seven, did not like the idea of guardian angels watching over him while he slept. One night his mother found on his pillow a big, black falseface—a sou- venir of Hallowe'en—and at the fovt of the bed, under the covers, the ghild himself, resting uncomfortably. Bhe asked him what was the mat- Everybody Likes Pie In New York pies are eaten every ‘Te’ day. The best of |) them are made with SAWTAY. SAWTAY is a richer < eee pstedna ay than RMT Meitiest pie - crust you ever ate, 7a TT About Plays Players The Day's Good Stories | DUDLEY AND YOU WOULD TOO! While selling Victory bonds at the Selwyn Theatro the other night Charles Ruggles of ‘“fumbie In,” apied Marion Davies in a box. He had & bright idea and after a brief confab with the beautiful Marion announced that any man who would buy a $10,000 bond would be given a Davies kiss as dessert, The men were be-| wiidered and nothing happened. | "Who'll kiss Miss Davies for a} bond?” sang out Mr. Ruggles. “I'll kine her for nothing,” said a vole coming from the rear of the house. | Loney Haskell, that rascal, had eaid it. The laugh that followed broke up the prayer meeting | Gossip. H “Toby's Bow,” at the Comedy, will reach its 100th performance to-night. Marry L. Cort has engaged Will Marion Cook's Syncopated Orchestra to play with the sims at the Standard. Marilynn Miller, at present with “The Follies,” has signed with F. Ziegfeld jr. for another season in that organization, | Robert Hood Bowers la writing sev-/| erat additional numbers for “The! Lonely Romeo,” the now Low Fields show, An aeroplane has been named Ming ‘Toy, after the role Fay Bainter plays in “Kast Is West.” | May Borden ana Hal Peel, both of| "Good Morning, Judge.” are asking vacations covering honeymon trips. To-night will be Lambs’ Club night at the Harris Theatre, where “Fires of Faith” is the attragtion. t Lynne Overman, ~of “Come-On}| Charley,” sings every night while) making up. However, he's a good| actor just the same, ' Charles Francis qill appear with) Julia Arthur in the trial scene from “The Merchant of Venice” at the Salvation Army benofit at the Metro- politan Sunday night. John Todd, Dorothy Nammack and Alfred Dayton will be seen in “It Happens to Everybody,” the new comedy opening at the Park Friday it. A life-size oll painting of the late Harold Edel, who was managing di- rector of the Strand, has been done by Gustav Brook. It will hang in the theatre. Charles L. Hertaman has been ap- pointed manager and press repre- sentative of the Princess Theatre. Gil Boag has taken over The Little Club in the 4th Street Theatre Building. He ‘will install special amusement features. WITHOUT A BLUSH, Missouri raises thousands of bushels of baselnuts. Everybody knows Mis- sour! is a cracking good State. ‘With the coming of warm weather the Hoboken Four-Leaf Clover Club is preparing for some hunts. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Capt. Henry Peabody of the Post Office went to the station last night to meet his new cork leg which came in from Brooklyn.-Wellsville Optic. FOOLISHMENT. While calling, a fellow named Platt Upon some fresh fly-paper sat. It injured hia pride, And he backed clear outside. Yow're glad, I presume, you're not Platt. ( FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. | “The last place I look for a thing is where I invariably find it.” “Why don't you look there first?” ter—why he preferred to sleep upside down, and what was the idea of the talseface. To all of which questions he boast- fully replied: “Why, I'm just playing a little joke on the Lord! I'm sick and tired of having those old guardian angels watch me the minute I get to sleep!” —Harper’s, HE INHERITED IT. INCENT was altogether too gar- Tulous in school to please his teachers. Such punishments as the institution allowed to be meted out were tried without any apparent effect upon the boy, until at last the headmaster decided to mention the lad’s fault upon his monthly report. So the next report to his father had these words: “Vincent talks a®great deal." Back came the report by mail duly signed, but with this written in red ink under the comment: “You ought to hear bis motber.”—Chicago Daily Nows, SLES SS DIFFERENCE, HIE ball had gone over the rail- AT ings, as balls will in suburban gardens, and a small but un- abashed batsman appeared at the front door to ask for it, ‘Then appeared an irate father. “How dare you show yourself at my house? How dare you ask for your ball? Do you know you nearly killed one of my children with it?” | “But you've got ten children,” said the logical lad, nd I've only got one baseball.""—-Chicago News, _> HER OPPORTUNITY. 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