The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1919, Page 28

ona i Pin’ fs mE! gy ae 8 Gugainyey By BIDE duced “John Ferguson,” now at the Fulton Theatre, has ar- Fanged to stage John Masefield’s play, The Faithful,” as its first venture WE the new season. The production WM oper at the Garrick early in DWetober. It is a poetic drama of Ori- @ntal life founded on an old legend ‘which was put in dramatic form by Beveral Japanese dramatists. Augus- > ‘fim Duncan will direct the staging of the play. IT MAY HAVE HAPPENED. Recently we printed a joke here @bout a man who went ewimming and was bitten by some eardines, he i maid. A friend asked bim how the ; ines got out of the cans and Bie swimmer didn't know, A com- ) wBvanication just received suggests 4 elution for the problem. | Maybe,” it says, “the sardines ‘Were playing poker and held openers.” \However, we're not discouraged. é A NOISY LION. fe Charles Dillingham's new Kreisler- Jacodi-Le Baron operetta is being re- Rearsed on the stage of the Globe ‘Theatre mornings. Thurston, the Magician, uses several wild animals dn bis entertainment at the Globe and these have been quartered behind the woenes. Yesterday a big lion took it fmto his head to join in the vocal @umbers and he roared every time anybody tried to sing. Unable to Proceed with the rehearsal, Director Latham summoned J. W. Mathews, the English manager of the theatre. "What's the matter with that Mon?” demanded Mr. Latham. “He's ‘been roaring for balf an hour.” Mr, Mathews adjusted his monocle ‘@Bd inspected the beast closely. ; ly he turned away and said: | © “T think, old top, there must be a ‘ sticking him somewhere.” ar ‘The rehearsal was called off. » BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Baid Silas McGuggin, in Pew weeple’s store: “The season for ~ footdals ts nearing once more. Ty) 4A, that is the game for ¢ man + With red blood, Say, I used to play it knee-deep in the mud. I “Bure was a devil at bucking the ‘Mine and few could withstand _ hose wild rushes of mine. No _ team I was on ever tasted defeat. \ Oh, T was @ player they just _- @ouldn’t beat.” “I scen you play 4 ence,” came from Grandpa Mo- Gee, “You sure was a runner— _ feat take it from me. I seen you - get busted a whack in the {| mouth, You started for home , funning almost due south.” “That's right-—begin knocking,” © growled Bi with a scowl “That _ whack in the mouth was an out @nd out foul.” And as he went _ out the growls came in a stream. | Baid Granpa: “Si's havin’ an | other bad dream.” ba i M4 Pe i paar: etre TWO PLAYS FOR BENNETT, _ Richard Bennett is to have two new ® this season, provided by John , Williams, He will appear first in for the Defense,” written by Elmer Rice, and when tbat one ler way he will rehearse in “ the Horizon” by Eugene C. . The same company of play- @re will support Mr, Bennett in both 8. So far the engagements for John mMANs: la Ogden, Wallace Jackson and le Woodward, ERLANGER GETS THEATRES. A. L. Erlanger bas concluded an @rrangement with Marcus Loew by a he acquires a 40 per cent, in- ef the new Metropolitan Theatre in Memphis, Tenn. This house when About Plays and Players a HE Theatre Guild, which pro-,and yaudevilla At the same time t in the property and operation | completed will ‘be devoted to pictures FRIDAY, COMIC PAGE SEPTEMBER 19, 1919 DUDLEY Mr. Erlanger. pui from Mr. | Loew a third interest in Staub's Theatre, Knoxvile, Tenn., and in the Vendome Theatre, Nashville. Mr. Erlanger is interested with Mr. Loew also in the Palace and Columbia ‘Theatres, Washington, and in Loew's Victoria Theatre, New York ADELE HART IN IT. Adele Hart, daughter of Hart, a clown who for years a with Billie Rice in Barnum's Circus, has become a member of the cast of “Happy Days” at the Hippodrome. She sings in a duet with Joseph Parsons in the Kiddies ecene DODGE, POETS! Byen the children are getting ex- cited about the war of poets. loyd Lebeuf, aged twelve, of No. 327 Wil- low Avenue, Hoboken, fires the fol- lowing shot: I've Uatened to Brooklyn's cries And also Harlem's sighs, Yorkville’s fights, And also the Heights, While Brona calmly Hes; Now don't try to think I'm joking, But the place to live ts old Hoboken. Hope the printing of his rhyme doesn't spoil the boy. Bille GOOD ACTORS SCARCE. Martin Herman, General Manager for A. H. Woods, is trying to cast twenty-five road companies and he says he finds suitable players harder to get than ever before in bis expe- rience. “Where all the competent oni re I don't know,” he said to-day. re are plenty of actors around, but they're all tennis players. I guess the demand is to blame.” MISS FENWICK WELL. Irene Fenwick, who was prevented by ness from appearing in “Those Who Walk in Darkness,” entirely recovered her health. She will begin rehearsing soon in a new play to be produced by the Messrs. Shubert. Gossip. Frederick Lewis has been engaged for the Sothern-Marlowe company. Francis W. Sutherland is now as- sistant conductor of the Strand or- chestra, It ie likely that the New York “Oh, What a Girl" company will go to Lon- don in the spring: Marjorie Rambeau has gone to the Adirondacks with a film scenario un- der her arm, Adora Andrews has been added to the cast of “Roly Boly Eyes,’ opening at the Knickerbocker Thursday. The Theatre Parisien, formerly the Belmont, will be opened with its French company on Nov. 1. De Witt C. Jennings has been added to the cast of “The Woman in Room Belle Murry, after a season in stock at Toronto, has returned to New York. She has been cast for a good role in a new Walter Hast production. David Belasco's i jon of “Daddies” opened its second season in Rochester last night. It ts going to Chicago, Asked to show her frivolous nature, a chorus girl engaged for “Frivolities of 1919," kicked the property man's derby off. Irving B Fellerman. L. B. Steinteld and Abner P. Grunauer have sent us good rhymes, Dut we cannot print them because they are too long. John Drinkwater, the English play- wright who wrote the London auc- cess, “Abraham LAnooin,” has sailed ie New York. He will arrive Tues- ay: A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Pony Hartsell has been appointed Art Critic of the Wellsville Comet, but he also works at the Elite Livery Sta- ble and Garage. FOOLSHMENT. My brother plays the banjo, My dad the slide trombone, My mother’s a pianist, I make the bass horn groan, The baby is a drummer That uses elbow grease; Invite us down some evening; We'll help you break your lease. 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