The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1919, Page 18

COMIC PAGE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER. 8, 1919 | About Plays and Players = : ty By BIDE DUDLEY cane MARE THAT Horst SOME PLAceE ELSE — WE'RE MAKIN’ ‘ IN The KITCHEN HER lg TRY “Te {AND wee CANT ending of the strike proved|Richard Gordon by telephone in : “PLACE. ELSE &@ boon to Broadway, but there} Newark, where the actor was in = is ong man who Ys sorry it's Mdiins vee ae Gok ao you can,”| He is Lute Johnson, who, until time ago, wasiwriting special les and singing tenor on the Post. Late quit the Western and came East with o gripful of of his own concoction, One of he placed with: Walter Floyd, manager for ‘Walker White- Mr. Floyd sent it to the Equity’s ing department wand arrange- ‘were under way?to put it on @ wonderful cast\when Auggis dumped in and, messed the all up by staging avlove feast of and Equity heads. Lionel ‘was to have: handled a and there would have been others - almost equal prominence in the Tt realy’ looked as though ‘Would hive a chance to throw sombrero xnd point with pride, Row the complexion af the whole is changed. The Equity has Producing. however, and grind out a fow ‘The magazines may hear from also, One thing is certatn—he going back to Denver until he the town can conscientiously him at the Union Station with * — THE OLD RUSTED ICE.BOX. i dear to my heart are the scenes of my strikehood, ‘When fond recollection presents them to view, grim-looking managers who on ©). the, Pike stood . Denying ali rumors, as managers do. Phe actors who spouted on Broadway at twilight, The new-born Fidelity, Louis and ail, The managers’ press room way up Y near the skylight, And Page's dear ico-bor that stooe . near the wall, Refrain, The old rusted ice-boz, The doose-laden ice-boz, The jag-giving ice-bor That stood near the wall. said Mr. Herman, "Can't to-night,” replied Mr. Gor- don, “I'm in charge of this show." “You waiked out on us, Why not walk out on them?” "A great idea!” And the actor Walked, leaving the shuw in obarge of somebody else. ’ LEVY SHOW SEPT. 22. Abraham Lavy's' production of “Tho Little Whopper” will open in Balti more on Sept. 22. ‘The strike inter-| fered sumewhat with tho rehearsals, | but from mow on the work will be| pushed. Tho cast as originally en-) gaged will bo seen in this musical piece, -_- 7 AN A. F. L. BENEFIT. It is announced that the Actors’ Fidelity League will have a big benefit performance at the Century ‘Theatre on Sunday evening, Sept.- °t. ‘Ton per cent. of the gross receipts will be given to the Actors’ Fund. Jack I. Braverman and Sidney Beckenstein have sent us replies to that “bummy” poem written about the Bronx poets by a Brookjynite. J. Nelson has sent us a reprimand the Bronx smarties. Braverman sweetly sings as follows: The Brooklyn poets are a bunch of mutts, Their domes are as hard as Brazilian nuts, Their poems and verse are 80 insane, In the head they give you an aw}ul pain, To say more about them I dq not care, We ali know that they are full of hot air, Gossip, Hilda Vaughn has been engaged for “The Woman in Room 18." Fourteen Woods road under way by Wednes Vaughn Godfrey will musical, numbers in Stewart & Mor- rison’s “The Little Bride.” Laura Walker is hurrying East from Oklahoma to assume her role in “Those Who Walk in Darkness.” ‘The Messrs, Shubert will launch “the Dancer* in Atlantic City on i “The Greenwich Village Follies" will come up town to-morrow and open at the Nora Bayes Theatre. Marjorie Hast, . Tf furnished’ the scribe a grand way to rout trouble, When, footsore, he knew just the place for a rest. ‘Avisit to Page and Ms woes were o i duddle ' That burst like the Kaiser's line cracked im the west. FAe yoors-will go fying; old ecenes | will be dimming, jAnd many of them we will fait to jf recall, ( ‘ got a trimming “At Page's decr ice-dor that stood near the wall, Refrain, dc. JUST LIKE CHRISTMAS. ‘When “A Voice in the Dark” got way Saturday i, A. H. who owns the show, handed of the women in the cast a “ive~ box of candy and gave each player a dox of cigars, With gift was ® card on which was TU ne'er forget how King et Brennan will be starred in a home! Let's all be pals!” "Phe players tmmediately decided to Wet bygones be has-wents, STRIKE ECHOES. Lambs Club is now called Local 1, big winner was Dan Frohman's Fund. r Club still has @ light in the w for its wayward boys. Noy let's all get back to the inter- s arguments. |Nobody—not even a mannager— care to call him a one-hoss Ye _ Mard feeling all gone? Say, they're making up with Louls Mann, / Turkey show manager was heard ing ho didn't mind. paying bis aftor four weeks. of perform- _My man, “Nobody,” nbminates 9, Way Kaufman as Benny's next oppo- “PRent for the lightweight crown, = Af it hadn't kerflooed just when it Wait Messenger might have sent at “Henpecked Henry.” ¢ lan heard lust night asking why feber called the musicians out of the Ww of his old side Kick, Lew Fields, jeff Nutt ts claiming the credit for opping the strike when ev ows it belongs to Harry R low Thurston's going ahead show, His name should attract a of sympathetic Prohibition suf- Seemp Clause requiring managers to fur- chorus girls stockings needn't in- lere with the generosity of the Sirv Cobb wes with the Bauity from to breakfast. Mighty encourdging all actors who were getting \Kfasté regularly, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE. | We have been notified that a man Aikenhead has a hardware bre on Temperance Street, Toronto. the best joke baved on this fact will give two tickets to the Penn- nia Station. * $ SECOND WALK. iter of Walter Hast, will 6 her way debut in “Scandal” at the 39th Street The- atre Thu: y night. Ben H, Webderall is having a vaca- tion at Mountaindale, N. Y. He writes he misses his schnapps. Sophie Tucker and her Jaan Shooters will begin cafe work at the same old stand Wednesday evening. Charles BE. and Harry Clay Blaney have added the Prospect Theatre to their string of stock houses. The Jewish Art Theatre has placed in rehearsal David Pinski's “Dumb Messiah” and will produce it in a few weeks, It is reported that Bert Savoy and ™' comedy next seasor. Esmond, Katherine Quinlan, Lois Scott and Lucille Moore have been engaged for “The Film Girl.” Jessie Bonstelle, Katherine Cornell and Marian De Forest have sailed for England, where Miss Bonstelle will produce “Little Women” for William A. Brady, ‘ ANSWERS TO INQUIRIE! Mrs. A, J. J,—Care William Hurris, Hudson Theatre, K. Arthur—There is a school in Carnegie Hall, . Hisler—Never later than August since 1907. Don't know what they did before that, 7 A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. “Does the oulja board fake?" aske Harvey J. O'Higgins. Don't know, but the table board does these days. FOOLISHMENT. T knew a young girt from Montclair Who went for a ride in the air, The pilot caressed her, Which really distressed her And gave her a terrible scare. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Hans—Vell, Frits, now dot ve are frients again here iss a toast! I vish you der same vot you vish me. Frite—Ah, ha! Starting again, ch? eepeareeentpiesiten PLUCK AND RESOURCE. Olé ROOSEVELT never weurled c of telling the story of Littledale a story in illustration of re- sourcefulness and pluck, He would begin: “During some amateur theatricals in my early youth Littledale, one of the performers, had to leap into a river im order to escape from a wild beast, “The stage was so arranged that the river was Invisible, Littledale was to leap and disappear, striking a soft mattress in the wings, and at the same time a rock was to be dropped in a tub of water to create a splash. “But, though the leap worked all right in rehearsal, on the night of the actual performance it went wrong. Neither mattress or tub was in place. When poor Littledale jumped he fell eighteen feet and landed on an oak floor with 4 crash loud enough to wake the dead, and there was no water to drown the crash, udience, expecting to hear a nd hearing ingtead the thun- pact of Littledale's bones on set up a laugh, But the he- le, equal to the occasion, he shouted from below, froxen!' 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