The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1919, Page 32

Berd ses 50h oie ©THE NEW PLAYSe Eddie Leonard Resplendent | in “Rojy-Boly Eyes” By CHARLES ,DARNTON | | HIS is acconiing to programme—that {s, the programme of “Roly-| Boly yes," blazed forth last night at the Knickerbocker Theatre: Act 1i—“i Want a Man” “All Wasied Up,” “Your Voice I Hear.” ‘These lyrica, pure as bakifig powder, were written by Edgar Allan) Wolff, and there was riotous music by Eddy Brown and Louis Gruenberg. All the vaudeville “fans” in town seamed to be fanning their palms. I am only too ready to eay that Eddie Leonard deserved all the noise he caused, Mr. Leonard was resplendent in “Roly-Boly Eyes.” red and brown satin costumes, and when he sang and danced the audience was with him body and soul. Leonard has much the same sort of stuff im him that made J. K. Dmmett and Billy Scanlan popular in their day. well and dances as though his feet couldn't go wrong. Most of | You can’t help liking him. With He all, he has an ingratiating personality. all the fuss made over him last night, he came forth modestly to express | his thanks. He was just a.good “minstrel man” and he “made good” every time he took the centre of the stage. As the chief performer he scored a big personal success, As for the play, that’s another story and @ rather sad one, Roly May Boley was amusing after the broad fashion of Marie Dress- ler and other people did other things more or less entertaining, It wouldn't be plastering Margaret Edwards with praise to say she performed an Oriental rug dance that was almost as spectacular as a naval parade Queenie Smith danced charmingly along more conventional lines. ‘Mr. Leonard ia the best minstrel of the day and if signs mean any- thing the show in which he figures has a place on Broadway. ORMAN CLARK, dramatic N editor of the Baltimore News, after years of studying the drama in the capacity of oritic, is writing a play. It is based on 4 story which appeared in a weekly » publication and, from a description of it told us by Mr. Clark, we'll ‘bet he makes a good play out of it, While dt isn’ gencrally known, the articles of the Baltimore orit- joa,’ especially those of Mr, Lam- den, Mr. Clark, Mr. Jackson and a young woman writer, have done much toward correcting errors in produc- tions shown the first time in the Maryland city. One Broadway show of last spring was switched all around after the producer had read Mr, Clark's suggested reconstruction of the play. ae TRAIN BUTCHER. The offers his wares in the troin, Oh, every ten minutes he sings his He mumbles hie words, dut you get whet he means, 7 cannot recall ever secing him sell A single blamed thing, yet he keeps up his yell, A very persistent young fellow ts he, And almost an object of pity to me, | Who buys from the butcher? Friend Reader, do you? Or do you ignore him, as mast peo- ple dof I wonder sometimes how he earns enough dough To keep Mister Wolf from the home| bungalow, The boy has me guessing, I freely . admit, Today something happened—I'll tett you of it, A man touched a butcher for five and I swear He took out a roll that would choke @ black bear. aj HIS DAY OF TRIUMPH. L. T. Heatley, after having coi- Weoted bundreds of rejection slips trom magazine editors, writes us to ask that we please let him show his versifying ability to the world. Since ‘wo have no slips to send him we'll have to print his effusion. It follows: I'd like to, in my houre of case, Indite a crazy Hitle whecze To strike some editorial feller And prove a real successful selier, JUST LIKE A WOMAN, EH? Lillian Albertson, in private life Mrs. Abraham Levy, entertained ‘Wwenty disabled soldiers at her home, Lilac Hedge, near Ossining yesterday. Wednesday her husband, acting on her suggestion, brought home two! Aczen packages of cigarettes. Miss = ach an bi WHY WAS Joc! AQRESTED?, 50 years eran it the eafi Dever About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY Albertson thought they looked cheap and took ‘him to task about the mat- ter. He said he didn't know what they were worth, as bis knowledge of olgarettes was limited. Deter- mined the boys should have the best, Miss Albertson took one of the pack- axes to a tobacco store and asked its value, The clerk priced it as 40 cents. . Then she went home and gently upbraided her husband for his ex- travagance. POETS FIGHT HARD. We are in receipt of “war poems” from the foliowing named warriors: Art Helfant, Jesse Levin, Dave Tomash, Andrew Hunter, Mack White, Lydia Golub, Burt Weider!- sight, Paul J, Amen, H. J, Grohl, Frank E. Moore, Mary H. Stoin- hauer, J. A. Glynn jr. and Sam Fried- lander. The lack of space prevents our printing them. However, we ‘want to say that one of the poems is excellent, “SOME GIRL!” SAYS BILL. A well known newspaper iliustra- tor, whose first name is Bill (we can’t spell big family name), thinks the girl in the box office at the Broadway Theatre 1s just about right. Oh, it isn't love; it's because she mved him from losing $4. And everybody knows what $4 means to a newspaper artist. y Bill, it seems, bought two tickets for “Mhe Miracle Man" at the Broad- way. Ho passed in a $6 dill and, in his burry, picked up change for $1. Later he discovered he was out $4 and burried back to the box office, “here's your money,” said the girl, She had four $1 bills pinned to- er, we! “Wheul” sighed Bill. “There may be 4 miracle man in the film, but there's gure a miracle girl in the box office.” “I thank you,” responded the girl. “SOME NIGHT” OUT. “Some Night," originally produced by Joseph Klan, hag been leased by the Palace Producing Company, of which Jack Goldberg is the moving spirit, and js on tour, Harry Delf wrote At, THE RECORD. FX Abrams, who has just returned from Detroit, was manager for Lewis Morrison in “Faust” twenty-one con- secutive years, and he married Mr. Morrison's, daughter, GOSSIP. Rae Seiwin has been engaged for a new production, Sara Blizabeth Chandler was host- ess to eighty wounded soldiers at the Hippodrome yesterday, Concerts will be given Bunday eve- Ring at both the Winter Garden and the 44th Street Theatre, William Hodge in “The Guest of Honor,” will open in Wilmington, Del., next week. Bartram and Gexton, Sammy Wes- ton and the Six Constables have been engaged for G, M, Anderson's volities,” Mabel Burke in William H. Quaid’s “Old Time and Modern Song Review,” has been booked over the Keith cir- cult, When “Angel Face” comes to New York from Chicago, Tyler Brooke will be seen in the juvenile role, Al Lehoft of Roselle, N. J., wishes the whole country know he has written a poem cal 1 Had Her and Lost Her.” The press at large please co! py. Mary Hall, known ax a Southern beauty, hag taken up film work for the Famous Players-Lasky Company. She appears with Mary Miles Minter in “Ann of Green Gables,” During the time Ted Lewls and his Jone aoe tion are engaged for the Ziexteld lies” they will play alxo in “The Greenwich Village Follies.” It’s principally that laughing trom- bone. The Selwyn# production of “Toa for 1 “in which appears Char- Vo ‘alker, will open in Atlantic Cite on Oct, 2. Four companies will present this play en tour A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, With electric light and gas bills wo- ine ws! Fathers’ Club of Wolls- ville is threatening to strike for shorter hours for young lovers, FOOLISHMENT. He saw a pretty bumblebee And heard ite tuneful bussing, But when it stung him on the knee, You bet he did some cuzzing. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, struc! “Yon—- anar” [stant BROTHER 1S )° INTO “THE Minch Pie! He wore white, ine union policemen of Boston <j Ht Mom & Coors fa, Poem Peis Ob ORY. Seanas Watt HEAVENS! He's 4uMPING }UP AND DOWN LIKE A “Trick MONKEY AMOUGHT I _ MIGHT _AS WELL DRIVE OUT XO WINIPRED'S WEEK ENO PARTY — THOUGH X .DONT KNOW “THEIR MEW HOUSE! —TViL ASK A_ POLICEMAN “AN “TOWN ¢ UNCLE AIRAM S$ A GREAT HUNTER. HE K/LLEO ORB WiLo GAME Than ANE OTHER MAN I SX TUS Coury! COMIC PAGE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919) Little Buddie Went “Over the Top”! T DoNT A ATE THe Pie — I Mran HE S / SITTIN’ IN IT MINCE Pe? WHY: PrE | , Knis BABES? oo Witte Re ? wied® How ? You CANT FOOL ME! YOURE “Har BIG; HANDSOME OFFICER WHO ALWAYS TRIES “To SCARE “He GIRLS! sy 7 WCLE HRA SAW A TRACK 17 WAS ALL OF THE ANIMAL. WAONT A Shou" THE Fok, HE TRACKEO THE BEAR: HE TRACKED THEA? To THEIR- —U — ae oA We | C7 he WANTED “15 . iC SIT ON THE TABLE So T Herne Him uP dae ALL MEN ARE ALIKE ti! She Had to Speak HIS Language, Eh? USE OF TALKIN’ t Jou eer. Mave ne aD ia? SENSE ENOUGH a “To KNOW ONE! Ha > ¢ *"NOBopy HE FINDS. HIS PIPE RIGHT WHERE 44FT IT! me ES Bur. 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