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Eu vinries About Plays and Players By BIDE ‘Messrs. Shubert will present Lew Fields in his latest musical revue, “The Lonely Romeo,” at » the Shubert Theatre Tucsday evening, Dune 10. “Good Morning, Judge” will terminate its engagement at the Shu- Dert Gaturday evening. Tho closing je due, it ig said, to the fact that ‘Mollie King wishes to retire from the east for a honeymoon, Miss King qwas married recently to Kenneth Dade Alexander. She will return to the play's cast in the fall. The book of “The Lonely Romeo" is by Harry B. gmith and Mr. Fields; the lyrics Bre by Robert B, Smith and the Thusic by Robert Hood Bowers and Maivin M. Franklin. “Some Time,” now at the Casino, ‘will close Saturday night and will the encoeeded a: (hat theatre by “Somebody's Sweetheart,” which will DUDLEY HOW ABSURD! Frank Norcross, actor, who always notices things, saw a transfer van re- cently with a sign on it reading: “To Get Rich Keep Moving.” He saw it in Yonkers where, ac- cording to Frank, things keep lium Siggling all day long. ' COMPOSER TO MARRY. Harold Oriob, composer of ‘Listen Lester” and other musical shows, will be married to-morrow morning at the LAttle Church Around the Corner to Frances Meyer, daughter of Mr, and Mra. H. W. Meyer of No. 640 Went 165th Street. Mr. Orlob’s brother and cclwuld: You “rou? You BiD- You Cant Keer a rbd You - You 4 party of his friends from Salt Lake City and Denve: ve come to Now York to bid him by. HE KNEW CORNBARN. A young man applied to Marcus Nathan yesterday for an engagement as feature dancer at the Terrace Gar- den Dance Palace, Tho applicant seemed imbued with his own im- Monday, COMIC PAGE June 2, 1919 T can eo fp So Now! $ IT WAS “The kIT rie Gik, Tow wats — “har CANT Kenp & SECRET Be moved from the Central. portance, ) "ve just come from England,” he “Over there I mingled with led people and taught Did you ever meet the Duke of Cornbarn?” asked Mr, Nathan quietly. “Did 1?” returned the youth, “ had dinner at bis “That's funny,” “I didn’t know suc! THE RETURN OF RAS. ‘When Adelaide and Hughes were appearing at an uptown theatre al- mout a year ago, Mr. Hughes sent bs negro dresser, Ras Jones, out for sume sandwiches and beer, Ras did not return and nothing was heard from him for ten months. Last night the dancers were in their dressing m at the Winter Garden when a note was handed them. It read; ‘Ras Jones, been to the wars, he wishes to entervue Mr. Hughes. He has with him to bottels of beer and some sanwiches.” BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Now ev'rybody's baby is the finest of them all, No other kid de half as smart; there's music in ) tte squall. It shows its won /drous brightness in each funny Little goo and does 80 many funny tricks no other child could do, Why parents love to brag about their offepring 1 don’t know They're classed as bores by ev'ry , one who hears them boasting so. I have @ baby two years old; yet I’m no bragging man, To-day she danced the shimmy. Now, Just beat that, if you can. THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY YEZZIRE XL PROPOSED” le YouR ‘DAUGHTER PAULINE” -AN' SHE perenne, ME “% You! Nad O-OH! D-DoONT SAY SALL RIGHT “THAT @IR? H-HAS Ad FUR AD XM CONCERNED * MR. KURLY“! SHED HAVE “TAKEN A RABBIT “SONNY” Nou WITHOUT REFERRIN’ —NouR! HOPWOOD WRITES IT. Avery Hopwood has written the play wl fn which A, H. Woods will present | _ Doris Kenyon. After this first one, tt ca.’ ts jerstood, Theodore C. Deitrich, President of De Luxe Pictures, Inc, Gossip. ‘William Harrie jr. is eailing for Engiand to-day. Decoration Day marked the tenth versary of the opening of the Globe Theatre. oo Betts Prepoott writ} Soin the cast of her ain de He Pee bested at the or contract with Mr. Woods saya she es and Gladys Walton ey t of the clty just one week Cagwin ce oop og te city Just one week nave been Shgaged for roles in “Bing, Bradway Ralph Hera of. “Monte Kenyon expects to has been offered « role in by Bou production Arthur . byt Banta Frawiey 10 fare ‘a world tour ingenue leads. WHY SAY! .a MAN'S FOOLISH T'GO AND BUY A NEW CAR WHEN HE CAN PICK UP A USED ONE «N A= 1 CONDITION! Mow Y' TARE “THis “LEMMUN Six"~ SHE'S BEEN RUN JusT LONG ENOUGH “T'BE WELL woRN IN! f 1323 SOUTH “his 1s “TH FELLOW ADVERTISING “hat “LEMMUN Six” MEAN "LONG ENOUGH T'BE WELL WORN OUT !? Margaret Nybloo will leave “Pretty Soft” shortly to play in Australia for the Taits. ‘Somebody stole Will re's old automobile, Neverbreak, t! pet Just as A yet celebratin, good fortune recov: the rattler, bart ’ o//j fy A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. : ‘ : Hy i) Mess Pinkston of Wellsville spont : “| }] y nine hours trying to figure out from fd my 4 railroad timetable when his aunt, | Ya] y left for the West Thursday, Nf would reach Pullman, Ore. and then eg’ TS) gave it up and got drunk. v/)// 14) FOOLISHMENT, \ l 4 certain old lady named Josie wl l Resides in @ cottage quite cozy, Ite beautiful, but She keepa the blinds shut, The neighbors, she says, are too nosey. THE OLD FAMILY SKELETON ©1919 tress Pub Co Ty Bve World MY GREAT GRAND FATHER WAS ONE OF THE VERY FIRST SETTLERS IN CORN COB CoudTY Great-Grandfather Was Also a Great Trader ! “NOBopy " HE PAYS THE HIGH PRICES WiThHoVT KICKING/ Senda Nobedy' to Crindstone George * ~~ FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Hotel Guest (to negro porter)—Hey, boy, I Ms 3 hed hot water, Porter—We ain't got I kin hot you comef” PFO Eee Ba} THERE WERE A 40T OF “NOIAWS THERE BUT THEY NEVER BOTHERED M4! HE LIVEO AMONGST THES? YeS, HE TRADED THEA APINT OF RUAT FOR SIX HVMOREO /T WAS BECAUSE HE. WAS ALWAYS FAIR, AO SQUARE, There is no other Peggy Shanor, WALL HIS OEALINGS 173 AW OUTRAGE. 7 | The Day's Good Stories | 'SUKING A GOOD SAMARITAN. IKE ao fiying dumpling, Uncle | Flopwit projected himself from the moving ‘bus to the pavement, | Mud was everywhere. ‘Mis feet touched the paving stones Zor a fractsin of a second, but he pro- @eeted for the next ten yards of his ‘way fac. downward, He was atill Prostrate when a Samaritan’s voice Have you hurt your- “Hurt myself? Of course not! That gliding business is the fret figure of @ Rew dance—the walrus glide. Bup- posed to be a walrus sliding off a Block of ico into the sea! Did it ‘Pather neatly, I think, don’t you, you Adlot?”—London Punch, ioctl Aaa TI INVULNERABILITY. LAN R, HAWLBY, President of the Aero Club, was praising the pluck of American avia- tors. ‘MHandicapped as our aviators were,” he eaid; “handicapped as they were ‘Dy poor engines and bad machines, ‘the Germans could do nothing with "Yes, my Jove, they astonished the ‘Germans as the colored laborer as- ton’ the bricklayer, M ‘klayer was laying bricks on the story of an unfinished house, unfortunately dropped a brick “98 the head of a colored man who mixing mortar down below, bri mr yon oe heart in his cianed over the parapet, He Hught he had killed the poor col- ‘man. But the latter looked up i ith @ good-natured and fo rr he shouted. ‘¥ou made me bite h tongue!’ "Washington Star, ar GIRL WORSHIP. “ce HE worship of girlish beauty , in this country ts unprec- edented,” said David Be- asco, “Look at the magazines—a pretty girl on every cover. Look at the ads—nothing but pretty giris. Go to tho theatre—it’s a girl show, “Yes, the pretty girl is worshipped but she remains unspoiled. I heard the other day about an eMerly mil- Nonaire banker who proposed to a pretty girl in the surf at Palm Beach, “‘Think,’ gaid the old rascal— ‘think of the automobiles and pearls and saddle horses a rich husband could give you.’ “The girl looked at him critically. “‘Oh, a rich father would do just as well,’ she paid. ‘Marry mamma.’” Washington Star. 8 te SE GOT ONE IN YOUR HOME? APT, ANDERSON DANA, who has just got married at Platts- burg, is a grandson of the jour- nalist, Charles A. Dana, and in an interview he said: ‘My granvdfather believed in mar- riage, He thought it steadied a man. I remember » story he used to tell, “I's a story about @ chap who asked a man: “‘Have you ever heard anything @bout @ machine for tell rh man is lying?’ elem bn = said the man. ve you ever e, oe ae seen one? gaid “Been one? said the man. ‘By Married one!’ “Washington WHERE ARE WE COIN’ 1 AMLOING TO TAKE ‘You TO DINNER FOR YEARS ANO YEARS (NW HARMONY AND PLACE! _' a CE WHA) I(Yo’ ORDER AS YET? WHAT S GOOD WITH THEM! AH HAS Ffrrocs LECS AND PICS WE. CAME IN HERE TO Ga. 72 awr Gangs WE DONT WAN'T TO HEAR! ABQUT YouR MISFORTUNES ie