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COMIC PAGE Friday, Jume 27, 1919 vceluarld ail and Players By BIDE DUDLEY BRADY has de- pt to change the opening of his 9.45,” after all. the Playhouse originally an- ve nO Oppo- it or Woods this week. a rather With re of wy" to him ‘the plan of opening “The Ci . At BL” by Octavius Roy Cohen " | Broadburst, at the 48th Street - to-night, Immediately things be- to hum in 48th Street, The re- Current thet Mr. Brady move his date forward one ‘and compete with Mr. Broad- ‘the honor of opening the Intermingled with this re- and others came the story that , Woods had arranged to rush new mystery play, “A Voice in the .4m from Boston and open it at Republic, At a late hour last 7 though, it was learned that Broadhurst had abandoned his sh to open “Thé Crimson Alibi" to- show could mot reach New this week. So the Brady open- Broadhurst intends to get away ‘to a fying start early next week with idea of beating the Woods play anyway. < ” |ingenue, has begun an engagement at = = Bi sings the swain who comes to _ take his lady in his sleigh, snow is nineteen inches deep and Coaxy Summer Breakfast -. Sawtay Orange Omelet— 3 Cl ‘way to serve your cggs trait, a ae { pa at Ee 6 lager ef orange cokes, 4e'the Time to Get Rid of These | : : Ugly Spots. 's no Longer the slightest need ashamed of your freckles, Othine—double stren, gvar- 3 3 open at the 44th Street fiftieth year on the stage recently by It's winter time, you understand; it's Christmas, we repeat, But Mary comes with neck quite bare and slippers on her feet. | NUTT’S FIGHT DOPE. We have just received the following wire from our fight correspondent, Jeff Nutt, in Toledo: | “Dear Dud: ‘¢ inject a little | bumor into our dope to-morrow. While I was standing in the lobby of the big hotel here I heard Damon Runyon, who, I understand. is out bere to get ideas for some poems, | talking to a young fellow named Tad who, I believe, hails from somewhere in Missouri and is here visiting bis kin, talking about the fight. Runyon asked Dorgan if be thought Willard had a show, and | Dorgan said: No. he sold it. Do you | get it? He meant the circus It was original with Dorgan, I'm sure, and he didn’t know I was lisen- ing. Go aliead and print it, but give me credit for picking it up, if you think best. The fight is still on and the town ts full of men. I under- stand, however, that they're mostly | travelling salesmen here for a conven- tion. There's « lot of excitement here, If I get wise to what ji will shoot you a wire.—J TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. Nellie Revelle, the Cort press agent, | probably doesn’t know that she has a budding rhymester in her office. and he has sent us a rhym enough to break into the column, | Here it is! Read it and see if there isn't a tickle in it for you: There was @ young man named Ralph Buttle, Who by profession would duttie, When he killed a guy, Jim, A Judge sentenced him To spend siz months in the shuttle. Gossip. Jean Troupman, phicked from the cast of “Listen, Lester” by marriage, has returned. Dolly Carle, a singing and dancing Churehill’s. Lee Parvin has finished his work “all A eld. ettea Ladies’ Orchestra, ine B. Nichols, director, will y during the presentation of “Open ur Byes,” at the Central Theatre. “The Shubert Gaieties of 1919" wilt ‘Theatre Tues- next Lee of Monday, Arthur MacHugh advises us to see the Mack Sennett bathing girls at the lway, Sunday night, He says they will “cut up didoes."” Guess we'd better go. Frederick ‘Warde celebrated his acting in the “Mission Play,” at Los jes, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Wellsville has an orchestra that about in an auto and the calls the musicians car-tune- FOOLISH MENT. “Oh, why is the seed in the prune?” Asked Aler Macdougall MoOune, His mother who heard, Never uttered a word, While his father just whistled o tuna FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. =e Anna helped me cook this meal.” “Then [4 call her an assiater.” ——>__—_. DEAD FADS, “ec ADS and crases,” said Repre- wentative Cardell Hull of Tennessee, “invade the world of business the same as they invade the world of fashion, They soon die out though, “Take the golentific management craze, A young man applied to a friend af mine the other day in Nashville for a job. “Look -here,’ said my friend, ‘your face seems very familiar, Didn't You use to represent the Efficiency Engineers’ Corporation? You wanted to let the efficiency engineers my business up to date, didn't ou? What has become of that con- | ackted me as the rep- | | resentative of a system. 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