The evening world. Newspaper, October 6, 1919, Page 24

COMIC PAGE MON DAY, OCTOBER 6, LULU) je THE NEW PLAYS “Where’s Your Wife?” A Dead Duck CHARLES DARNTON aoe YooR mom | poland 1 serene anicken || T percte | ! sordid Your Hicker. mS HT WANT ME oa OUR Mom Doers NT KEL 4 ‘ CU WEene - T' come T Your thei ste Does —— MOUSE For DINNER To YouR House FoR DINNER ¢ ‘T is much easter to rent « theatre than to write a good play. No te0e| I an Thomas Grant Springer, Fieta Campbell Springer and Joseph Noel the “mystery farce” that had the single virtue of deing ehort at the Punch and Judy Theatre on Saturday night. “Where's Wife vt it knows all the time that the blood-stains of two dead ducks lead to the Puspicion that a man has murdered his wife, The only possible humor that can result from the situation is concerned with a boastful detective who industriously proceeds to make a fool of himself by ordering a police- man to arrest everybody in sight. Farce fails to be amusing when it be- comes burlesque. The acting was strenuous. Nothing more need be said, for “Where's Your Wife?" is surely a dead duck in canvas-backed Manhattan. = THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY That Was an Addition to the Cost of Living! By BIDE DUDLEY — L WELL How DYE PN sap aiid ina ; ASSA STUFF TRIBL OBTRICHE, film star, is |dive free of charge in the Hip tank Like ‘YouR New font cr Gy” Lane FIRM ALWAYS ONLY fT, Look Wek & . . BUT DAWGon'T to follow the lead of Alice |{Wo mornings a week. Address her at DoB “DERRY A Nunes \vS MEN Like ME “FUTURE LAST Wel sar IN i y 16 ALL BEHIND |} HEARD Sou HAD, WAS } Brady, Doris Kenyon, Crane |*he Hippodrome. and go tn for the spoken drama, if! seats for the Actors’ Fidelity that term fits the case. She ts to be | League benefit to be held at the Cen- | Starred in a musical comedy called|tury Sunday night will be auctioned “Dream Girl,” by Walter Irving and |®t the New Amsterdam Theatre to- morrow afternoon, beginning at 3 Arthur C. King. Wiliam L. Meehan |ociock, George M. Cohan wires from has been engaged to play opposite |Chicago he will be on hand to assist ' her. The show, which is now in re-|in the sale, He's been out West open in Paterson, N. J.,| watching the White Sox get all ' poxt Monday. It is intended for |mussed up. ' vadway consumption. ~ BERNARD A STAR. = M'MAHON LOOKS BACK. Barne: = y Bernard will blossom forth “Back McMahon, dramatic editor,/ax a Broadway slar next Monday Sas pies nae ann i pea night, when he appears at the Bijou in ‘7 n ‘ . bailt to my earty carly thirtion Iwas visit: | munagoment of A. H ing an in en ith leomedy is by Montague © Street, and there I heard some lyrics , ‘G written by © goung man who was in | wc? “ckert Goodman. the advertising business. I also saw | "MOVING SHUBERT SHOWS. Nobedy would give him a chance in|, “The Gaieties” will move to-day to those daya, but T thought he was a |the Winter Garden, vacating the 44th care bets Street Theatre for McIntyre and “And you haven't heard of him |Heath, who open there to-morrow % “wince, eh?” commented. night. “Monte Cristo Jr.” has gone to AY Mgince then,” Jack ‘continued, “be | Boston, where it opens to-night, "Oh, fern | bas turned out ‘twenty-fve hits, 1|What a Girl” moves to-day to the] JOR’S CAR mean Otto Harbach. Am I a good |Central from the Shubert to permit if Dicker or not Sothern and Marlowe to open at the ‘Wert say he ia. Shubert to-night. HERE AN’ No RAISE bs INT SO —-—— E 1K, : e * Witbur and othars of the sereen world! TO AUCTION THE SEATS. haar Ned ists ce esta Nilay ME Two MONTHS!( Hap AN INCREASE TH’ FAMILY oT? r a suds Cloun Hart Ooh, La-La! See the Distinguished Look! % BROOKLYN'S BEST POET. GOSSIP, Anton F. Scibilia has engaged Don- ald MacDonald for “My Once-In-A- While.” The opening of “Too Many Hus- yme about it, has sent up an ef- |bands,” at the Booth, will take place a oF ort called “Get a Hustle On.” Will- | Wednesday night. kam says by crickets he had his pic- Irvin Cobb has supervised the stag- ture in one of the daily papers re- ing of his “Boys Will Be Boys,” open- cently and he'd admire to see his !n§ at tho Belmont next Monday. poem in this column, Here's one, Jennie and Rao Prussak will preside verse: \in the box offices of the new Capito: Uicads of trusts are now quite gay, | Theatre. Buster Kearney is the office boy. the trolley to subway ; . ‘ UMATTA YTRINK ED — AFTER me | |p WHO'S “TH DISTINGUISHED THINK OF \T, ED! 1AM - How You say tT — BLOWIN’ MY ROLL ON “THAT BIG / |\LOOKIN ALLER. JOE: BOTH OF US Good DRIVERS — PAH -DONG SO PLEEZE You “to MEET! RACIN CAR = “TH! WIFE UPS AN! SEARCH ME AN' SHE GOES AN ADVERTISES 1AM ZEE CHAUFFEUR OF SAYS SHE'S GoTTA HAVE A FoR A CHAUFFEUR! AN’ I'LL j zee MADAME voe’! ; ’ ' F “TRICK CHAUFFEUR # os yes oa al| \HAFTA PAY some. RoUGHNECK SOLICITOR - - It appears to be a season for Hel- The people now i have ons. Helen MacKeller and Helen i for them all have Tries have both scored heavily with to work. excellent acting, In their great investigation A. H. Woods has put Marjorie Ram- heau's new starring vehicle, “The Un- By the heeds of this great Nation iow, “Woman,” in rehearsal. Bome of them their duty they did, Barney Reilly writes us from Roch- 4 whirk, jester to say Chauncey Olcott, in “Ma- “Por the prices now stilt soar, Jeusbla,”” Is surely toting home the acon, They are always wanting more; | Wiliam Woolfenden, who te about We send our great men down to|to be discharged from the U, 8. Gen- ¢ eral Hospital No. 5. has taken over _ 7 Washington. the manager of Walter Scanian. “They do little there but wrangle, will put him in a new show, ‘hen Raymond Hitchcock's “Hitchy Ane ere etwaye tn 9 tangle, Koo" company arrived in town yea- For once why don't they get @terday to open to-night at the Lib- hustle on? erty, nineteen mothers accompanied thelr chorus girl offspring. Each ONE. mothor, acconting fo the press agent, “4 is an expert at eythg Johnnies away. ‘A, W. Bobler of No, 445 16th Street, | "Conan & Harris. will be associated “Brooklyn, put his brain to it the other with Arthur Hopkins in the produc: May and worked out a joke which he tion of Crane Wilbur's play, * ‘ants printed in order that the world | Haunted Violin.” gay know Brooklyn ts just as funny Kathryn Wythe, a coloratura #0- o@8 it looks, Really, the joke is 80 prano of Chicago, is in New York and Kod you could put a little cream on | win be seen and heard in a musical it it, Here it is, we're proud | production soon, Perey Hammond says sXe will prove to be a “fin Myron C. Fagan, whose pla; Defense,” is to be produced by Edgar |MacGregor, is returning to the drama \after an excursion into the advertis- he may be a thief, but she's |ing field. Jack Macdonald, manager of the Park Avenue Hotel, used to be an SAM'S GETTING RESULTS. actor, He quit the profession and Sbipman may be guilty of | Went into the hotel business to be as- ¢ sured of three squares daily. peretas, o28 Dane money Unt | For “Wedding Bells," a new comedy by Salisbury Field, the Selwyns have engaged Wallace Eddinger, Margaret Lawrence, Jessie Glendenning, Mrs. Jacques Martin, John Harwood, ence Derwent, Percy Ames, said, and he began to every ‘Way possible, Andrew, George Burton and George How Did She Get So “Light Headed?" ALL VERY WELL, BUT eee T WOLLD YOU Give “to -— s wou vee «ll ATTA GIRL, TLL SAY THAT DRESS are ihe TO CONTINUE RECITALS. is Increasing |_ ‘Through a nt with let your troubles get you Dinh . phn Charles they'll soon quit you,” says 7!" incipal male opening to- morrow night at the Globe, will con- F; HIPPODROME NEws. tinue his concert career, while sing- "y ry ’ OKRIE 7 . : B eixtyrtme tnousana pene eaw |!ME, i the. new, Krelsie-Jnoahi-Le THE OLD FAMILY SKELETON It’s Easy to Live High on the Other Fellow’s Roll! Hi Days” last week. Lalla Sel- |iiree recitals Rees Wake nate - fe ew ereline sci |snring ‘Somes, (* New York betore) CEPTS aye ig a “NoBopy” ¢ P ‘and ‘ — iODY lth al dalla ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. 5 OVERS TO INGUIBIES. UNCLE | Maney re alT™ | YES Bur HE'S THE TRAVELING SALESMAN Pr \| Sm ¥S CHARGEO oy LPHER WAS A ne \| OTHINE YO UNCLE ™ A 1E ALWAYS WHO WALKS ‘To SAVE THE FLRCI arles kK. Harris, Colum Geen DE ENOE WHEW , 2 TF FLOWED ; 17 OP To MS ERCEVSE ) Mover! ne wilding, will’ furnish WANTED ANY THWG )\\ » WS HANS ‘i v, * to" Gr; [Bia Zheatre Bullding, | wil) furnigh Fos ee A) WINE | 3 Oe THE ) | me" Ss HA ae) Accounr, end a" Mebody” to* Grindstone Geerge WHAT WAS . recent a ONE Yt | snag a Oc A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. nen meal gue —" adits. THE HOTEL THE A tramp who ed in Chi ce | - 4 1S ONL: car called at the office of the rail- ‘44 60 BACK AWD |road's general manager to complain GET MY TRUWKS!, | about the dusty condition of the rouil- FOOLISHMENT. “I'd lie right down and die for yor, Quoth lovesick Fred McGee “That's fine,” she said, “But would you, Pred. Stand up and work for me? FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE Wife—We're going to a musical comedy, Husband—But I thought we decided to to @ lecture, ‘ife-We did, but I've changeg our bad |