The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1919, Page 24

COMIC PAGE WE DNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 191 a: | Me ALD | i Bobby Now Has a,“ Bump of Curiosity”! * X y ATT - — ——— —— — THE NEW PLAYSe ake 4 oT Be eae © | Ik 4 1} A I DID;%60, BUMP , $ You GET ON On - On -o =! see P You “lusmore” | MY HEAD SLIDIN You MEAN You THAT Door AND THE ‘Door '5 CAN TSO Bump usmore DOWN “HE || (GOT # SLIVER T’L. stow Ya A-comin? uP Your HEAD! An Irish Fantasy CELLAR DOOR: STUCK IN You —~- eden a. ; \ F YOU can imagine an Irish play by Mra, Chauncey Olcott without : J in {t you are more imaginative than I am, But “Lusmore” 3 let me add, js by Rita Olcott and Grace Heyer. The play, aa you know, ping the lights of Henry Miller’s Theatre burning. i a ‘Luemore” fs an Irish fantasy. Fairies raise their voices from a well +] eocasionally, and work a Wonderful change in the hero, They take thd t hunch off his back, and goes forth as a mailed Knight to fight f 44 Ireland. But it is 4 hard, hard road be has to travel before the fairies make it so! rh j i owtke eed k to the fifteenth century, I should my, with “the ean legend * whatever that may mean to you, For my part I¢ ar is enough to ray that a youth is put out of comforatblg quarters and goes ; foaming about until good fairies take off his hunch and make him a@ val- ’ fant mailed Knight The play is picturesque so far as scenery goes, but the characters in it Vk are little more than vague sketches eeen for a moment and then forgotten. { Synge, Lady Gregory and other Irish playwrights have’ given ws so much “ real poetry of the sod that Rita Oloott and G Heyer can appeal only to the “popular” taste. Happily, they have made a point of brevity. ‘The P play is short and sweet im the end. Lusmore comes back from the war az with a lot of armor, not to mention honor, and has open arms for the poor lind girl who has loved him from the beginning of the first act. A prin-|, cers—rare creature!—puts her heart in her bodice and doewn't mhow any 1G “HeMBLE “WAT DINNER “O-NIGHT sign ‘of jealousy WAS “THE FIRST ‘T've To make everything perfect, the blind girl regains her TGs EN ia \ q aight. It takes a play to work miracles! To Be WITH -oUT , 1 7 fs Having seen Maude Adams in “Peter Pan," perhaps, Mim Heyer de- A*cook” I Thy aid COOKED IN YEARS — IM %s WAS IT DEAR S ia cided it would be permissible for her to play to Luamore, She may not KNOW ¢ So | “Do You_ REALIZE THAT BEGINNIN’ 4 haye been born in Ireland, yet Miss Heyer has a very good sense of Irish J bit To ! dialect, and she puts both charm and life into her performances. Ewa Le Gallienne makes another stride in her promising career as the blind girl ‘who feels her way through the performance. ‘The acting suits the play—I.can say no more for “Lusmore.” | : About Plays and Players By BIDE ROADWAY was surprised to-|Theatre, London, Saturday night by 3 day to learn that Winchell | Smith and John Golden, who have been associated as managers ‘ ANd producers for several years, had ef decided tp dissolve the firm. Mr. q Golden will take over the concern's t Plays and will produce ali the new , ones Mr. Smith may write, An an- mouncement sthies (hal there is no Misunderstanding between the two men, but that Mr. Smith is relinauish- ing the reins of management primar. lly because of the new condition of labor unionism that now confronts bim in the theatre, He doen not be- Ueve in unloniam for the ‘actor aa it now exists. Mf. Golden will personally direct "3 the operation of three compan Fools," 0 two playing * and one which | will be seen in “Thunder” at the Criterion next Monday evening. For future production Mr. Golden an-/| pounces a farce by Langdon Mitchell entitied “Happy New Year;" Horse on Him,” by Victor Mapes and William Collier, starring gga ved " a ‘Dumbe, the Brave fantastic | comedy by Lawrence, Gibdon, and! “Both Doing Well,” a Nne-faron by Jacnes Montague. It be said for Binith & Golden that the firm dis. | solves with a record for successes of 100 per cent BILLY'S DRESS SUIT. Billy's got a new drese suit, AUt's the first he's had; | Mother says he looks reat cute | Father says it's sad; | by John T. Mcintyre, will be pre . jwented at the Liberty Theat: on Water Bupen Whes tt, ets) | Monday, Oct, 6, by George C. Tyler, 4 I¢'@ Joo small, she vows | Joanne “Eagels ‘and Philip Mérivaje 4g Since it came the folks and |. will have the leading roles, Pe Must have had ten rows. ' Billy put it on last night Planned to make a catl “Gee, that coat sure ia a sight,” i Dad began to baw! {ope in *Goodncss gracious!" came fromgue, Don't you try to dance; “g Those tight pants, I bi Haven't got a chance.” telling you, Billy couldn't fix his tir My, the words he weed 4 Mother i Pathe Billy's suit went im his trunk ae On the bed he sank, . Shouting “Wahoo! Bingo! Bunk! fi Blank the blank old blank!" lined to try was amused MORRIS HAS ONE, ca William Morris is arranging to 5 plage in rehearsal soon « new play i, cated * anid to ' taueh on tt is by * Le! filma star may od pal rote. WYNN MAY PRODUCE Ed Wynn, left “The Gauietion” when the s' not return, 99 business of NOVELLO PIECE STAGED. “Who's Hopper?” a musical pomedy the Burn: Adelphi ' wiTH A \ GO ON) ‘ WONDERFULL) —"*ee4 y BOLL! / ‘Quastaicurt J Wves,ve Rowson a tie’ SSYiur TH GARY SE( DROPPED IT, AND Tit’ 5 SAWDUST RY af Feu ours 3) VI é Q 5 \follers calling on ‘em, [ goes tn at 10 <o~r7g| o'clock and tells ‘em it's time to tear “A DUDLEY , Alfred Butt. Mr, Novello, whore home is in New York, will arringe for the presentation of the piece here, AND STILL THEY COME. lwo Eddy Cohen of the Cohens of Washington Heights cannot see why the Brooklyn, Bronx and Yorkville poets should brag, Read this unusual young man's rhyme: We've Hstened to old Brooklyn's watla, And also Harlem's boasting tales, Yorkville, too, the othera slighta, But best of all of them's the Hei, Then Dave Link of No. 526 27th Btreet fires a fountain pe: ints the melee, Here's Dave's argue monty Well, here I go, and I know I'm right. Who ever heard of a Brooklymite? Yorkville, too, and the Bronz, it scons, Along with Harlem are having dreame. There's one section here in N, ¥. town That gives them the gas and makes them sit down, And that's the place that can't be tied, The home of good fellowe—the old west side, “A Young Man's Fancy," @ | . | “Just a Minute’ will open at th | Knickerbocker Sept. 29, i | "See-Baw's" oponing date ut tae | Cohan is Sept. 28, Margaret Dale will have a leading “An Exchange of Wives,” opening ‘Tuesday at the Bijou. ‘The Messrs, Shubert hav hoarsaln of “Little Simplialty, will open in ‘Toronto, , Flora Hoffman of Galaties” | will have the prima dont role in a | Rew Shubert operetta next month, | Art Hickman's San Franelsco or- chestra will play next week nightly on the New Amsterdam Roof, afte: “The 9 o'Clock Revue. |. Adrient | Brooklina, Field's “Lonely Romeo" the Casino. Joe Weber bas engaged Lillian Lor raine for the title role in his musloal be 4 “The brine ae Devil.” , ta C¥gi is producing a aay act for Maryon Vadie ant himastt, It calls for a company of nine, R. H, Burnside has returned from Had ra- y git from] joined Lew company at Detroit where he went to attand Fred |o opening performance in "Jack tern A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Boston, jong the Hub of the Uni verse, hus lately been the hub-bub. FOOLISHMENT, Ny Herb, ©. Maldive) Loug song, All wrong, Canned! | Short Dud wil! run We land! FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. heard about the aspera r who told his daugh- company when it was said Gap Johnson . Ark, “Mebby tt) 1 to work all right in some localt- os but Cuther night when Zangaline and Baliny had a couple of young oot. And V'll burhung if them young gents didn't both pile onto ma me «round right sharply and tell me it was time to get out of there and lei ‘em be, and them twe on- kratef davwhters of mine stood by um hoorawed the scoundrels on!" 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