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* Aste’ av W i COMIC PAGE MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1919 ORDYNSKI ranged with the Messrs, Shubert "to present his musical fantasy, Pair Helen,” at the Shubert on Nov, following tho engagement there of has ar- @othern and Marlowe. The play ts founded on Offenbach’s opera boutfe, a Bolle Helene.” Austin Strong has the tale a now setting and ‘Which Includes also James Warrod, Warry McDonough, Parker Céomba, Percival Vivian, Hertha ang George 8. Trimble. “Fair * begins a two weeks’ engage- Ment in Boston to-night. © FRENCH PLAYERS DUE. “Whe new French company for the Theatre Parisian is due to arrive in ‘New York from France to-day. Rob- ert Casadesus accompenies the players @s art director. The bill for the New Work opening will be announced after Mr, Casadesus confers with Richard G@. Herndon, manager of the theatre. A preliminary tour will include per- formances in Boston, Philadelphia and ‘Washington. “LOST LEADER” SOON. William "arris jr. bas taken over the management of a production of Lennox Robinson's play, "The Lost ." and will present Frank Con- in it at the Greenwich Village in the near future. The play deals with Charles Stewart Parnell, ‘he Irish leader. > — \orne AGE OF “THAT BOY.” M&A agent of the Chikiren's Society visited the Casino recently to ascer- tal the ages of the Wilson Sisters, in “The Little Whopper.” r Stacy took him back on the and satisfied him that the girls over sixteen. As he was leaving my cr the pint-size comedian, Sid- joa Beason Towne has supplied | Spun Marcis Van Dresser heads | Grant. How old is that boy?” demanded the agent. (My dear sir,” said Grant coming of thank you for the compliment, I voted for Grover Cleveland Who do you think will be the ratic Presidential nominee next o don’t know, Grandpa,” suid the ,! SHERRI TO PRODUCE. ‘~ Sherri is planning to do some ils initial offering, ac- @N announcement, will be Sherri Revue of 1919," de- @ musical crazy quilt by ‘Mr, Sherri and A. Baldwin Sloane, His roribed ™ will be “The Love Child" and a will come a fashion eatrava- wana called “Femina.” FOR “CAESAR’S WIFE.” to support Billie Burke in ry Wife” are Norman Trevor, Tom Powers, Frederic DeBeilville, T. ey Percival, MH. Green, Cyrus Wood, Hilda Spong, Cynthia Brooke end Gertrude Wise. CAST OF “APHRODITE.” Besides Dorothy Dalton, Comstock for “Aphro- entury Nov, 24, : MeKay Morris, Maude Odell, Haze: About Plays By BIDE DUDLEY and Players Alden, Rita Gould, Annette Bade, Carolyn Nunder, Clara Bracey, Ruth Helen Davia, Nita Nald!, Mabel Alien, Christine Miller, Hope Sutherland, Mai Poth, Hazel Miller, Vera Leon- ard, Louise Bland, Shirley Ward, Hazel Woodhull, Patterson Dial, Et- enne Girardot, Robert Ayrton, Fred- erick Macklyn, Mayne Linton, Mark Loebell, Richard Hale, Basil Smith, George Zorn, George Reddy, Lester Swayde, Richard Sylvester, Arnold Van Lear and Prince Nicolai Glovat- a THE STRIKE CAUSED IT. Charles Dillingham has opened a temporary laundry, with union labor, ut the Hippodrome, to clean the cos- tumes used in ppy Days" and “Apple Blossoms.” Mark A, Luescher slipped six shirts into the first batch {under the name of “Poodles” Hana- | ford. Slim Severance had sent his other one to a Chinaman and is out twenty cents, GOSSIP. Will somebody please tell us who Wilkie Lard is?” Ms Mabel Runyea will “Sco Saw” to-night, G, M, Anderson's “Frivolities" will | hop off in Providence to-night. John Drew says Harry Beresford, in “Boys Will Be Boys,” is “a new Rip Van Winklo.” Join the cast of | Isabelle Lowe, of “The Dancer,” has volunteered to appear at the firat entertainment of the Cheese Club. The Winter Garden will be closed until Thursday night when “The Passing Show of 1919" will open. The Century Literary Association has been formed, It will discuss and criticize plays. Harry Buiger is to go on tour in his former success, “The Flirting Princess.” Alan Fagan, who dances in “Apple Blossoms,” has been made stage manager of that company. Jim Toney, of vaudeville, has been engaged by Ned Wayburn as come- dian of the musical show at the Capi- tol. Alice Brady, in "Forever After,” Smashed al) records for attendance at the Bronx Opera House last week. Several hundred Dartmouth foot- ball reoters will see “The Greenwich Village Follies” at the Nora Bayes Theatre Saturday night. George James Elwood, of Jersey City, Ran invented what he calls a whistling one-step. He will demon- strate it at the Terrace Garden Dance Palace soon. Erlanger, Dillingham & Ziegfeld have arranged to have concerts at the New Amsterdam Theatre Sunday nights beginning next Sunday, They promise exceptional bills, Chic Sale has been engaged by F. | Ziogfeld, Jr., to appear in “The Mid- | night Frolic.” He will take part, niso, | in the forthcoming “Nine O'Clock Review.” A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY. A Harlem young woman writes us to ask if the do¢k strike is a walk~- out of physicians, FOOLIGHMENT. There was a young woman named Helen, Who tackled some honeydew meton, Baid she: "1t'e @ joy, But expensive—oh, joy! I'm sure it was served by a felon.” FROM THE.CHESTNUT TREE. “What sort of a dog was that one Maynard took with him on his cross- country flight?” “A sky terrier, I presume.” CHANGING THE TUN™. \e . you want to start the victrola? rae a) HE—Why? PBHE—It's about time you started something. 5 > e LETTING HIM DOWN. bd & | ELAA, Tom,” ae turned to his birthp! » t &@ brief visit. “I heard that Bi @ man. Is it irue?” "Sure!" replied Tom. the feller three days with a shotgun, finally “got 4 good bead on him en Wiffed bim right through the lun..” “And kiied him?" queried Northerner, with horror. “You bet!" “Weill, how is it that they didn" Bil) for cold-blooded murder?’ @ North. } ay "a said a man from the North who hid re- ailled | « “He chased the Bill shot didn't have a fricnd on earth, so the Game Warden just fined Bil'$2 fer huntin’ without @ (icense.""—Harper's Monthly. ————___. YES, FROM BOSTON! N ono of the southern training camps, a profane and prespiring infantry sergeant was doing his best to pound into the heads of a squad of exceedingly raw “rookies” the rudiments of military science, When the sergeant gave an order, each willing recruit of the squad made @ commendable effort to exe- cute it, but every little rookie had a movement all his own, with highly unsatisfactory results, “As you were!” sergeant, At this point, the proceedings were interrupted yy a recruit from Boston, who before enlisting, had been & Harvard student. “Beg pawdon, sawgeant,” said he, ‘but wouldn't it be moah’ propah to say, ‘You will restoah the status quo ante'?""—Cartoons Magazine, 1 VAMPIEST OF THE VAMPS, CENTLY a boot and shoe com- R pany inserted an advertise. ment in the town paper fur vampers and closers-up, Among the answers received was one from a young lady who signed herself Miss Mabelle Jones, The letter sald in bawled the _ “Gentlemen: I have seen your ad, for vampires and close-up and I would like the job, I have oven studying to vamp for several years and have been practicing eye work for a long while. 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