The evening world. Newspaper, June 9, 1919, Page 20

| Tr ne ee nae RNA A NA ATE Wu, About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY | AVID BELASCO’S production ot “Tiger Rose,” with Lenore Ulrie in the title role, cloned Gaturday night at the Broad Street ‘Theatre, Philadelphia, after two sea- fons of continuous - presentation ‘Without a single break. Bven the in- fluenza failed to stop this attractiot In piling up receipts “Tiger Rose” Das been a record-breaker, Miss Ulric and the other members of the east have begun their first vacation since October, 1917. COMIC PAGE Monday, Jume 9, 1919 COME, MARY, AND Have YOuR BATH AND CET “READY FoR THE PARTY Idont Need 4 “ There 'S ONLY Gown? SBATR For THAT PARTY - “Te Be Five oR six AW, I ave NT FINISHED MY MUD Dempsey will exchange punches on July 4. Will dig up some more ex- clusivé stuff in a day or two and shoot it in—Jeft.” NEW PLAYS FOR BAILEY. Oliver D. Bailey, lessee and man- ager of the Fulton Theatre, announces that he has booked his forthcoming Production of Julian F. Thompson's comedy-dram ree Blind Mice,” in another New York theatre. Mr. Bailey has several other productions in view, SENNETT GIRLS SOON. Mack Sennett, in conjunction with Sot L. Lesser, will present his bath- ing girls, in person and on the scree the Broadway Theatre tn the near future. The production is called “Yankee Doodle in Berlin.” AN “ACTORS' DAY.” A movement is*on foot to name Friday, Dec. 5, as “Actors’ Memorial Day.” "On that day assistance will -|be given the Actors’ Fund, which | the cares for old, sick and indigent play- ers. It will all be done as a compli- ment to the thatrical profession for the work it did in connection with the | war. | HE LIKED HER VOICE. Over at Goldwyn studios the other day an actress, between scenes, began to sing in her dressing room. A window washer heard her and said he wished he could induce her to sing in the choir of his church. with 8 Htile training, “If you get a chance,” sal window washer, “tell her what I said. The choirmaster’s always look- ing for promising singers.” THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY AT LAST (1 ARRIVED - MY PHOTO > OF "HAROLD STARDUM- E DYE SPOSE “THAT “THE “Mqvie ACTOR REALLY GET "W’ ENORMOUS) WoT BYE MEAN ‘RIGHT, oe * 2 pel a former Gossip. | WGONIT — NoT ALL OF EM WELL SEE now stationed at U. , Bastview, N. Y., t soclety comedy WE COULDN'T RESIST. Harry Sweatman has returned from \ the road with plenty of money. | Mike Selwyn is back in this coun-| try. The Bronx Opera House closed Saturday night. | Seven of Charles K. Harris's ballads | Four brothers, a sister and his|bave been converted into film sce-; mother came to town last week to visit George White and eee his musi- cal revue, “Scandals of 1919." No wonder they call it (he Great White Way. HOW JOKES ARE BORN. Nellte Revell, prose agent for “Lie- ten Lester,” called us up last might all & flutter. do you think bas hap- pened?” she asked. “What?” “Grace and Agnes Manning, the twina in ‘Listen Lester,’ have o! their name to Hall. | Their great- uncle's will leaves them $9,000 but says they must stop using the fam- ily name on the stage. Go t).cy made change” a “And at the same time made a aul,” chuckled wo. elt and tell it at the dinner of our Fox ‘Trot Club next week.” OUR OWN FIGHT NEWS. ‘The readers of this column will be leased, andoubtedly, to know that we ave arranged with Jeff Nutt, the noted authority on pugilism, to send ‘as occasional on preparations for the Willard- battle from Toledo. Mr. Nutt is in Toledo now. His first letter, received last night, follows: “Dear Dud: It is the consensus of inion out here that Willard has a to beat Dempsey, and vice versa. I have made a unique discov- ery that all the other fight experts to have mi Tt ts this: ba myeed byron 8 = two men are are called training q re Decause a quarter is pati gee m who sees the trainin, jara, I have learned after sleuthing, is the same man who whipped Jack Johnsop ‘In Havana wome time ago. Your wire asks me which is the harder hitter. That I cannot say, as I have never secon either play baseball. The fight, by the way, comes off July 4. This is exclusive news. In printing it, I would suggest you head It, ‘Fight Date Is Discovered by Nutt.’ If you want to inject a little fun into the story, you migbt'say: ‘Nutt says that, although Ohio js dry, Willard and On “a tract of land in Oklahoma, al- dotted to Jackson Barnett, a Creek Indian, ‘and on which it {s not recorded that he ever did « stroke of work, ol] was some time ago discovered. Jackson's income ts now sald to be $50,000 a month from of] royalties. He has a cabin, erected for him by the superintendent of the five tribes, but he prefers to live in the open. At night be wraps himself in a blanket ‘end sleeps on the poroh. proverty |e now said to be worth $800,000, does nothing through the livelong day on the porch.—Christian eienoe Monitor. ——— COULDN'T DISPROVE DEATH, ‘The most curious case of a man's in- ability. to disprove his reported death was surely that of John Partridge, the astrologer, For Partridge was the vio- tim, mot of red tape, but of a practical Joker. He was making « large income from fis almanacks of ambiguous prophecy, when in 1708 “Isaac Bickerstaff, Eaq.,” jasued @ rival almanac, in which Part- ridge's death was confidently an- nounced for March 29. a pamp! deathbed scene “Isaac Bickerstaff’ was none other than Dean Swift, whose Elegy on the Death of Mr. Partridge completed the | « Partridge was struck off the rolls of the Stationers’ Company, and spent rest of his life in trying, with sma ess, to convince the world of hi Unwed existence.—London Chronicle, ad GREEKS HAD NO TOOTHACHE. Toothache was not an incident of the campaigning with which ancient armies of the indicate that the Greeks and Romans suffered Bad to reckon. Claasics § certainly The silence seems to Dery little from their teeth. Words for toothache and for teeth- “application of steam or aries, but the auln eZ Benerally late ing. Even Lucretius, when he gets on to the subject of teeth in a passage where ry nee to toothache ‘The date duly arrived, and on the 30th there appeared graphically describing the narios, | Kenneth Webb, film director for Alice Brady, has gone to Siasconset | for a vacation. \ Fugene Kelcey Ailen says the loca: | tion of the theatre mak: no differ- ence if the show is a hit. What do you say? | Bel & Co. are to star Donald) Brian and Wallace Eddinger in “Bud- dies,” a new play by George V. Ho-| bart, | Gordon Dooley hag sold his monkey to Chic Sale Chic is training the }| Simian to shell peas. | ol May is now playing Zelia Sears role in “Tumble In.” Miss Gears will rest until the fall season opens. Percy Parsons has left “Somebody's fweetheart” to play in Tendon production of “Tiger Rose, Arthur Hammerstein very frankly gays he closed “Some Time” because ita Broadway run was over. Two! ecmpanies next season! George Hassel, recently of “Ciood Morning, Judge,” will have a roie in ‘the new revue, “Bing, Bang, Boom.” Arline Chase, chorus girl, will have ® small role in “She's a Good Fellow” to-night. Mr, Dillingham has decided to give all the girls a whack at speak- ing parte, . A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, “I ain't worryin’ none about thi here telegraph strike tyin’ up t business of the country,” said Ez Hoskins, of Wellsville, “but I a hopin’ an’ prayin’ they git it over with afore Jess an’ Jack steps into |, the ring.” - FOOLISHMENT. He'd been om a tear, had Cooper, He sat onthe ded in a stupor; Though, not his intent to, A whoop he gave vent to, ‘And, doy, that young gink whooper, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. bj here isn't an idea in the whole tly the author hasn't given a thought to Broadway.” PHONE DIRECTOR! cosT. It once cost the Bell Tetephone Com- pany in thie city $25,000 a year to an- wwer the question: “What time is itt’ ‘War cut off that query as a neeMess extravagance. ‘There was another ost which neither war nor peace can stop but Which the subscriber never reckons at all. I refer to the periodical new tele- phone directories. It costs the company, 80 « high oM- gial tells me, $50,000 merely to carry one Seah be pain ters 5 P*Philadelpiia, Press. ses oe CIVIL WAR RATIONS, Mr, Ben F, Chewning of Kentucky, was @ sottier m the Union army during the Civil War. It will be remembered by the older citizens that the bread fur- nished the doldiers was what is denom- inated “hardtack,” a cracker made of flour and water. Many soldiers got very tired of chew- ing this bread, and Mr. Chewning con- cluded be would save a cracker and bring it home, which he did. He exhibited it at the News office and it is @ curiosity, It looks very much like honeycomb. He drew it in his rations at Mundfordville, Ky., in 1862 or 1863,— Adair County (Ky.) News, a te LAST MILL OF ITS KIND. A water mill 100 years old, said to be the only one of its type now in - operation in the United States, is grind. ing out whole wheat flour in Clarke County, Indiana. No little engineering skill was em- ployed in its construction, At a point in Fourteen Mile Creek, @ tunnel was cut through solid rock ninety feet below the summit of the hill, thus penetrated, and the mill race is fed through this bore to the overshot wheel. Steam struck the old fashioned water mill its first blow and then came the water made electricity. With the water mill went ditties about “The Miller's De rat “The Maid of the Mil nd by, the, Brookside,” The ‘i ‘One o! he last of th ballad ‘which ‘told us that Yee ‘he The mill can never grind With the Water th MY! THOSE EES !OC, So of ma A MAURER UH ~NOURE GOIN’ Cuckoo" OVER “THOBE MOVIE Heroes ! 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