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COMIC ' PAGE | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1919 | | LITTLE MARY MIXUP AnD | } Yes nn 7 \ OW- GEE. ¢ | SAY, MISTER_ HURRY } “25 a . I Forcor We -SMELL THIS % “The Gold Diggers” Enriched by Belasco. hBack NAME OF The | Ly AND GIVE ME wan wea — A GALLON BY CHARLES DARNTON. NA CLAIRE may count herself the luckiest girl in the theatrical world with “The ( Diggers,” the comedy by Avery Mopwood that David Belasco produced last night “ “The Gold Diggers” was ¢ at made it i the dest entertainment of the 1 Mr. Hop- Wood the credit he deserves for weiting a very medy. Me is an as thor with that rare gift, a sense of humor. For the moment he has taken | ‘ horus girl and made her worth taking. [t's largely the sort of thing , Marie Dreasier did when the actors’ st aa Words, “Heaven help the poor working gi j ' Frankly, she can help herself. Her midnight parties are her own affair. Mins Claire was charming as the chief gold digger, and Jobyna How- Yand walked off with the show girl honors of the night. Bruce McRae and ¥ Reeves-Smith made the men in the case amusing. | If you are seeking for fun you will find it in “The Gold Diggers.” © was striking 12. In other About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY PORGE TYLER, referred to by, They're treasures of another time, Wallace Munro as “the debon-| Of days now dead and cold, pair producer,” has made &/ I'm storing up those memory spots Great sacrifice, Broadway hears. In| 7 givat om when I'm old, “Clarence,” which Mr. Tyler bas launched at the Hudson Theatre, A CHANCE FOR COMPOSERS. there is the line, “Now you can all! Hugo Riesenfeld, director of the fo to thunder.” Down at the corner Bivell and Hualto, bas offered @ prise v ot for tl overture submit- ©f the street is John Golden's produc: |124't, nim before March 31, 1920, He tien ot “Thunder.” If you haven't] wants to encourage American oom. begun to suspect something by this) posers. The winning composition will time we'll bet you're “getting warm.” | be played by the Rivoli and Rialto The other night, according to Wal- | $CBestr™s lace, Munro, Mr. Tyler saw “Thunder” SPOILING HEN FRUIT. end later hunted up Mr. Golden. May Boley, the roly boly Holey of “Say John,” said the debonnalr one, |“Koly-Boly Eyes,” a terrible f “I'm going to do you @ favor.” fo ap rece at lt Lop Borg ” ry an eg¢ on the right aide. Ph “Gwan,” replied Mr. Golden, beam-| Nello Revell, the roly boly of the ‘ ing ine expectation. Sort offices, is authority for the state- ." sald Mr. jer, according to| mont that Miss Holey spoiled several alg oon fiom to make that| WDole esa» praotising. “Itoly-Boly ° Byes” is at the Kuickerbocker, Mata, ‘go to thunder’ line in ‘Clarence,’ ‘you | Wed. and Sat. must all go to “Thunder.”* —— “I thank you!” replie@ Mr. Golden. MODELS AND MODELS. P. 8 Wallace Munro in preaa agent], Raymond Hitchcock's, “Htchy Koo JOE’S CAR We'll Say Joe Has a Pretty Good Sense of Humor! for “Thunder,” but, of course that |ioat simply tun of arta modelm has nothing to do with the matter. |wo've heard toll. Woe haven't found nea out how many limousines the chorus * THE WAY TO . owns a8 yet, but it's a limousine . Ife @ rough old, tough old, gruf old | chorus all right (and again) all right. DIRT OR NO DIRT Ive world Gossip. : GONE -N -N-N- are GAW -- ---N-ARE ; eee ue GOTTA DO IT! Teay St “TW DAYS -- gestae “TH DAYS —- == DA-DdA OLE -- t-te wn ocPARL Benham hus Joined the cast || | STAND HEARIN’ THAT PAN aa DEE - DI — DO - Doo - Low-w-w-w! 4 -- BL-bL-L-ACK— e Magic ly. , RATTLE ANY LONGER! mae 0) HEART a IR wUz YOUNG an’ Es, Oe cnc en Vee) ae drome eaneey. Charles Stanton has engaged for the juvenile lead im “Businuss Before Pleasure.” Beastie McCoy Davis denies she is going into vaudeville. She will re- main with “Ihe Greenwich Village we! Folin Flood jr. and Will Stan! john ir. a itanloy | “WHOPPER® DOING ye have written a pong called, “I'll Bo Abraham Levy returned to New! the First to Go Back to Ireland.” yesterday. Hoe was in Washing-| wointyre & Heath will open at the » | 44th Street Theatre in “Flello Alexan- bl Tuesday night instead of Mon- y. to the best first night's! kt. George Burnett has been added ital City has known | tg the cast of “The Duncer,” opening out a Broadway/at the Harris Theatre to-night. Marcia Van Dresser has been en- gaged to head the cast of “Fair Helen,” the Austin Strong-Charles Hanson Towne operetta, { Goorge Jewell and Gilda Gray of “The Galeties,” wil! do a comedy skit together when that show movey to “Ruby Craven, a maid tn "et LEAVE IT TO LOU © 1919 Press Par Co BYE Worse Night,” pops her chewing gum the play. Last night the eum missed fire and almost broke yp tho Der- | 3 LEWIS!- L DON'T KNOW WHY DON'T You __ | YOURE ALWAYS formance, | : WHAT T'M GOING wi vo TEACH HER THRIFT) Cee ere ane. sisal ISEL— Ni “WOLI 600 A THOUGHT FOR To-Day. , a ar eee CL Gi oe Ls WE Neve eee And then agnin, maybe those hotel hold-up men had been stung for SHE GOES AN' BUYS A RIDING WORSE proyer of thanks that mother HIM AROVDND al spoke cover charges ut some of the New, * ies 7 cane. home. onc dev, York hostelries, | find new wrinkles in her face— FOOLISHMENT. | iB Her hair o bit more grav— The boy looked on the burning deck, | . Plainly pictured in my mind, The flames were making it a wreck; _. it will ever be It roused his ire. “Ba vivid there as when it gave His dad, who'd caught him playing A thrilt of foy to me. rhum, i 4, | Had classed him as a tittle bum | he swimming hole, the dasedait) ing trrown it in the fire, | - team! seh |» They're posts that mark the past--| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. © Phat indicate real joys T knew— — | “Have you seen Amos?" f The kind that cannot last. ——— SS | Stories a COMING AND GOING. Jcorner and that gentleman turned to | ny” don't appear to take seh | Sie yer fad ran into we) 6~THE OLD FAMILY SKELETON Me interest in this inv nad the astute sey. | TEST + -—_—— semi | tigath “No.” 4 4 to look at at ‘; ceessory be} the | <f ay i “NOBODY " HE LIKES 70 DRESS IN A SLEEPING .. . CAR BERTH Send x Nobody te brindstone Geor ye? Vans AOE TS ihe ts: EVER GET eT eT THESE TROUSERS ON /LL NEVER TAKE — Yes aur HE OWED EVERY ONE 1 TOWN! —_—._ HE BELIEVED \~ (N THE REFINING INFLUENCE OCP WEAL 7H, WS Hone WAS FLED WITH CEAUTIRUL WORKS OF ART! 17 WAS THE SHOW PLACE OF STWITOS, A RETIVU EW O SERVANTS KEPT THE PLACE WN APPLEW (WE ORGERS WE HAD A PRIVATE Fi Si PONO, SALQLE HORSES, CI0TOR CARS ~ EVERY THE TOMAKE LiFREQ WORTH LIVING! PULPHER WAS A MAN OF REFINEMENT AND C200 TASTE, HE LOVED THE NCE THINGS W lire? "1 bills, 1 can't stop | the witness. — to referee disputes fay to whether the| HI8 CONTEMPLATED ABSENCE. a . Bag situation ia due to 667.N case 1 do} ’ higher cost of 4] not return, Le production or low- | all you will find Purchasing power of a dollar, 1t! OH ‘ull instructions in me either way." — Washington | this envelope, Sid- | my “solemnly sa Cyrus K ‘My will ata ip SILENCED HIM. | OU GUPRNSEY was dofending) | my pate one party to an auro collision | Wg B box. The cane you and was cross-examining a lady have #0 long admired will bec who was undentaply pretty. yours in the event that I fail to re- Have you any idea what caused /appear, I have forgotten my eneinies. accident?” thundered Lou Try to think as kindly of me as you think 90," said the fair witness, |can, and” | “But uncle!" eried his | y. tell the court how it hap- " thundered Lou, eager for I tell the truth?” young re . “You are not con- templating suicide?" | “No,” returned the curmudgeon. “I am going downtown to match a S¥ou have sworn to do 9." jsample of silk for your Aunt Sam- jell, sir, 1 was standing on the | uolla,”—Kansas City Star,