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About Plays By BIDE ID you ever hear of # chorus girl writing @ play and actu- @ly succeeding in getting it for production by a Broad- M@ahager? Neither did we. How- Joe Flynn, press agent for Ar- Hammerstein, and a man whose 4s the talk of Broadway, in- m us that Sybil Bethel of the of “Somebody's Sweetheart” Oia ‘Wed. and Sat.) has done that ‘f thing. Mr. Hammerstein is the - who has accepted the play @ the namo of it is “Without Bag- age” All right! Now let's have a @ope on this exceptional mem- of the animated background! Bethe! was formerly a news- ‘writer. She wanted to write stuff and be bothered with roy- fies, 20 she came to New York from Francisco and took @ job in the Evenings sho spent as an to the prima donna’s songs A mornings she scribbled. It wasn’t ig unth “Without Baggage” came Deing. One day she appeared at n offices and when It earned she wasn't there for a was taken in and her play ted by Mr. Hammerstein, bitor’s Note itor’: ite: We hope you the Ergon, Dest’ weer ‘abont the * SUCCESSES. Just com- Smith & ‘." “Three Bow in its Atth woek will move Street, where ue through the summer. M. Nelson ee ” dark BARNUM WAS RIGHT. booked a date at Hodge please the rural hordes; Greatest Show on Barth” tt was, to the boards. was the word they used, bing the parade; said it was “The Finest Show Out in a Decade.” Popers told of special trotns clowns, in all two score; said the big menagerie ninety dens or more. four rings wer) promised anda tent just couldn't leak; ett the agent used @tronger ev'ry week. § circus came and showed at Hodge, ! * dig the same blamed thing. ay Salt Mackere! d until the skin is cri the meaty side rown, with plenty of \WTAY melitingin. h of water cress and 0 Can you think of thing more. delicious = for Sunday | breakfast? SAWTAY al cate, real flavor to develop fully. GoodThingsto Eat 48K YOUR GROCER PRODU "TS TOFP. Woolworth Tower, H.7. Hide “Them With « Veil; Re- j Them Witb Othine— ' Double Strength. Phis preparation for the removal Mreckles 1s usually so successful oving freckles and giving « beautiful complexion that it is under guarantee to refund the mey if it fails. "t hide your freckles under « an ounce of Othine and re- ere Players DUDLEY NEW FRENCH THEATRE. M. Robert Casadesus, director, and Richard G. Herndon, business man- ager of the now French Theatre which will be established in the Broadway section early in November, have gone to Paris to engage @ com- pany and get plays. The institution will be known as Parisien, Theatre EXPOSING SANTLEY. No wonder Joseph Santiey of “She's @ Good Fellow,” at the Globe, knows how to wear gowns cut on the bias and in other ways caper about as a girl. At the age of five he played girl parts with Corse Payton. | Gossip. ; Eddie Cantor has been engaged for the new “Follies.” Joe Robie is in the Hackensack Hospital with appendicitis. 1 Oklahoma Bob Albright #old a $6,000 Victory bond at Proctor’s Fifth Avenue the other night by singing a us Loew will give a midnight of the film, “Auction of at the New York to-morrow nigh A. T. Murphy, chief clerk at the St. Charles Hotel, Atlantic City, and bo me with theatrical people, is Theodore Westman jr. of “A Little Journey,” was sixteen years old yes- He gays he loves to recall his childhood. John Morris, the Policeman in “39 "was once a cop in Lincoln, Neb., but he never arrested any Pres- dential candidates. The lady press agent of Luna Park tells us they have fitted eight Luna rros with amoked glasses to prevent David Wark Griffith has arrived in New York from Los Angeles to attend the opening of his repertory season at the George M. Cohan Theatre Tucs- Yvonne Shelton, Ethel Delmar and Ia Syiphe have been added to the cast of George White's “Scandals of 1919,” due at the Liberty soon. Josephine Stevens, daughter of the late Ben Stevens, theatrical manager, will be seen in the cast of “It Hap- fet to Everybody,” opening at the ‘k to-night. Paul Scardon, the Vitagraph direc- tor, started his theatrical career as a vaudeville contortionist, Naturally he went into pictures. Percy Hilton Mitchell, now with the Argonne Players at the Manhattan ra House, will return to the stage as Perey Hilton when he gets out of the army. Henry J. Labin, a New Haven law- yer, has come to New York to spand two vacation dancing. He has taken a room near the Terrace Garden Dance Palace and literally Hives at the dancing palace. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Tt ts Topoxted the Broadway press agents will form an association. Why not call it the League of Notions? FOOLISHMENT. A Greenpoint young lady named Mace Once bellowed all over the place; She'd opened the watch Of her beau, Oscar Gotch, And found she was not in the case, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “T've got a turrible bad cold.” Pe haf don’t you take something for “Vat'll you gift” NOISELESS SOUP SPOONS. B, TRITES, the novelist, was astonished, on a recent visit to Chicago, by the al- most deafening sound made by the Chicago soup-caters in a fashionable restaurant, “The sound” said Mr. Trites, bears a strong’ resemblance to a violent surf—the eurf of the Bay of Biscay, for example—heard at a dis- tance, It's very gurious, Very curious indeed. A. moment afterward, however, Gnding it impossible to hear his Neighbor on account of the noise of ot side, Mr. Tri 20) that arose. from every les turned to the nearest -eater and said courteously: it me, sir, to offer you thi jee European invention—a no! less Soup spoon.” And he bandied the Chicagoan a straw,—Ohicago Tribune, - SUSPICION FROM BOTH SIDES. NE June day a city man went to th antry to see about summer board with Uncle Josh, and, arriving about din- ner time, he was invited to take a Piace at the table This he did, and afterward sauntered out on the ve- randa and lighted a cigar, “Let's get down to business, Mr, Jones,” said he to the farmer, “1 want to say that I enjoyed that meal very | much.” “Ye did, eh? returned Uncle Josh, gazin over the green fields, + esponded the city man, “and {f that is a fair sample of the meals you serve I think we can easily come to terms.” “Jes’ a minute,” interposed Josh, with @ thoughtful express st | of all I would like to know if that was & fair sample of your appetite."”— Philadelphia Telegraph, — PUTTING THE |.1D ON, RS, WILL IRWI.; said at a M Washington Square tea: “The more immodest fash- fons would disappear if men would resolutely oppose them, “I know @ woman whose dress- maker sent home the other day akirt thi aren, The woman put it on. It was oming enou, iP. dark frown, “TL wonde: ) With an em~- barrassed laugh, if these ultra-short was, really, too short alto- | skirts will ever go out?’ es 6 ‘ashe h KLANG ¥ Oh ial ih COMIC PAGE Friday, Covrrate 108 Press Pottuhing On iM ¥ Brenna Wert) THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY I SAYS -WoULD YA SLIP A OLE SOLDIER S BACK FROM “TH Olan TWO Bret JOE’S CAR Seyret. 8 Prem Pebtahing Ca OLY. Deming Wer b i Ive GOT A NOTION “To CALL ED UP AN SEE IF HE's DECIDED WHETHER OR NOT HE'LL BUY ‘Le Let HIM THE OLD FAMILY SKELETON UNCLE JAMES WAS AN ARCHITECT WITH A NATIONAL REPUTATION! LITTLE GIRL Do You KNOW WHO 1 AM? He DESIGNED Ate OF THE PUBLIC GU1L OWES 1 Sn wus! May 9, 1919 gee Now iT & “RAIWING AND Some~ One HAS © UMBRELE A ais LooKir HERE “GEN. NooSANCE™ tue Nee HELLO! “Har You ED? “his 1S JOE — YEAR- How's: Ev'RYTHING ? awe Wi THEY WERE MASTER PIECES OF ARCHITECTURE. THEY REMNNOEO ONE, AS IT WERE, OF THE SPLENQOR, OF ANCIENT ROME! 1S IT TRUE THAT You DONT KNOW ME? “RAINING — “That UMBREULA — WHY “TH GAM HILL DONT You Gey OUT AN’ GRAB A DOB — Aw! PLAayin® AIRPLANE WANT “epay ? He Spoke From WORK NEVER KILLED ANY BoDy ¢ OW, Ev'RIMING'S Fine! How's YouRSELF? How's “THINGS Gone? n! WHY; UNCLE JAMES Couto DESIGN ANYTHING fRomM A woao- SHED TO A SIAN S/ ON! WHY I'M THE BREAD MAN- EV'RYTHINGS OK. ED— How's “THINGS Goin’ - LOOKS SToRMY— EH —| wee \/ 10 Teans: I) ATLANTIC FucHT Nove! irs “PosTPoneD ON ACCOUNT OF WEATHER CONDITIONS Experience—by Proxy! AW - WHAT's “WH use"! Many Another Has Stumbled Over the Same Stone! Yes, BUT HE COULON'T onsen, A _e vir ths WIFE! WANT THE FRONT ENTRAWCE GOING INTO THE KITCHEN, 2 HE AGREES WITH HLS WIFE ON * HOUSE PLANS. Mend a*Novody' to “Grinastend George * OV DONT THEN HOW CAN YOU MAK THE CELLAR, STAIRS LEAD He Had a Crust, Hadn’t He> WELL YoU CANT LOAF AROUND HERE-