The evening world. Newspaper, October 23, 1919, Page 32

COMIC PAGE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1919 \ Div nr Ya HEAR WHAT MOM saw 2 sim saip T courd ee aa Mary— Here 'S A QUARTER - YOU AND BOBBIE RUN DOWN AND GET ME 4 Loar ( ee AW, IDoNT WANNA GO TO‘THE GROCERY | About Plays and Players a By BIDE DUDLEY ————— You GOT Ten \ CENTS CHANCE _ = } AINT YA Goin you noticed how many! wild an’, fearin’ he'd bite me, 1 OF BREAD — y Mu wan ars are going into the! run like @ child, I tried to climb | KEEP The amen “T? SBuy SOMETHIN l CANDY S Keep Te cHance_ en drama? The managers! over a fence an’ I slipped. A nail 2 5 —) [2 || CAN by| 1 that success is almost! caught my pants an’ that's how pe 7 ertain for a production if a well-) they got ripped.” Jed Peewceple RY A = known film player is in ft. This is "Who wae the ga, C Fi, <5 AE true especially outside of New York. Attractions with film stars heading their casts are pulling the former bal cony patrons back. opportunity of seeing the film player from a balcony or rallery seat for but! a@ litte more than they'd pay to see} the player on the screen, and they're | will Alice Brady! Don: Mocking to the theatres, fs breaking records for receipts every-| where, and Doris Kenyon is doing much) to fill the Ditinge, where “The Girl in the Limousine” is playing. Very soon Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Crane Wilbur, Kitty Gordon, Martha Hedman and Dorothy Dalton will be geen in regular stage productions. Verily the managers are seeing the Bight. NOT ALTOGETHER, Don Marquis asks if A. L. Jacobs, the persistent first-nighter, who front rows at all new productions, also bald heads. ‘We wouldn't exactly say he bald heads, but he bald spots. HAMMILL NOW HAMMOND. When Goorge Scarborough put a character called Congressman Ham- mill in Ruth Chatterton's play, “Moonlight and Honeysuckle,” he had no idea there was such a man, But there is, and he hails from New Jer- fey. The real Congressman Hammil! has requested that the character be renamed, as he says his friends are teasing him about it. Henry Miller has agreed, and the character will hereafter be known as Congressman Hammond. In the play the man is a sultor for Miss Chatterton’s hand. In these days of} ¢dvanced prices they are offered the} you can see what a lot of blushes the teasing might cause a Congressman Hammill in real life. WARDELL TO PRODUCE. Marry Wardell, through Sanger & Jordan, has al ged to produce a new musical play by Frederic Arnold Kummer, with music by Victor Her- bert. No title is announced, COMEDY GETS A NEW ONE. “Fifty-Fifty, Ltd." a new musical Piece based on "All the Comforts of Home,” will be presented Monday night, at the Comedy ‘Theatre, by Scibilia Theatrical Enterprises, Her- bert Corthell and Gertrude Vanderbilt are featured in the east, which in- cludes also John Slavin, Barrett Greenwood, Jean Newcomb, the Gos- man Sisters, Frank Bernard, Mar- ret McNulty, Elste Dougias and ris Arden. Leon De Costa fur- nished the score, CHANGE AT PLAYHOUSE. Arthur Hopkins will offer “Palmy Days,” by Augustus Thomas, at the Playhouse Monday night, Wilton Lackaye Is the star. POP PRICE IN POLITICS. Frank J. Price, who writes heavy financial reviews and light editorial paragraphs for the Morning Tele- graph, informs us he has joined the Teutherford, N. J., Democratic Club. ‘There is a tradition that Pop, as he is known, cast his first vote for James Buch"nan, but a search of the rec- ords would likely show it was Gen, Jackson, We are {nformed that Ruth- erford is a Republican stronghold, but Pop ts a majority wherever he hap- pens to be. His only fault is that he invariably raises on two pairs. BY WAY OF DIVERSION, Said Silas MoGuggin, in Pee- Weeple’s store: “Beg pardon, Friend Grandpa! Your breeches is tore. A man of your standin’ can't be a cheap John. You ought to be careful 'bout what you put on.” “Yer right,” replied Grand- pa. “Them breeches is tore. Cl tell how it come if it won't be a Dore, Last night my old dog went out strollin’ with me an’ Rover was happy an’ calm as could be. Well, sir, we soon come to @ house down the street where peace scemed to loaf an' all things scemed complete. Old Rover run up to the winder an’ bing! Some feller inside of the house starts to sing. Oh, golly! grinned and said | guy that sang yer dog crazy" | | | | | | Said Grandpa: “'Twas Si.” Old Silas arose and he left in a hug. Said Jed: “Well, I never! Him sing? Pretty tough!" THE “FORBIDDEN” CAST. Walter Hast and George Mooser | © in rehearsal to-day Dorothy | new play, “Forbidden,” in the princl- | rs in the cast are Will-| with a pal role. iam K. Harcourt, Richard Barbee, | John Rutherford, Claire Mersereau, ermine Shone,’ Louise Pruessing, Georgia Lucile, F. R, Macklyn, David Proctor, Herbert Delmore, George N. Leary, Herman Gerold, Joseph Dunn, Harold Satter, H. Shuttan, Frederick Netherton, George Bancroft, Dale Orr, Henry George and Arden Page. The play will open in Allentown on Nov. 20, HE DOESN'T WASTE TIME. | When A. H. sWoods finds he bas produced a play the public doesn’t | t he closes it up without delay, | He has found that “A Bashful Hero, with Ernest Treux featured, isn't a hit and it will close Saturday night at the Princess in Chicago, after an existence of only about six weeks in this country. Mr. Woods has with- drawn “The Big Chance,” with Mary | Nash starred, He found the public was tired of war plays. A LOLLY-POP STRIKE. The ten children in “Boys Will Bo Boys,” at the Belmont, went on a strike the other night. To keep them quiet when not ucting the stage man- | ager furnishes them with lolly-pops. He brought in some of inferior qual- ity one evening and the howl that went up was heard clear out in the street. The kids struck for 5-cent lolly-pops and got them. HE IMPERSONATES LINCOLN. N, Schroell, employed at the Strand Root Cafe, has been engaged by the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation to impersonate Lincoln in “The Cop- perhead.” Ho doesn’t have to ac all he is expected to do Is look. - GOSSIP. The 100th performance of “Happy Days” will be given at the Hippo- drome to-night. ‘The Chorus Equity Association will meet at the Amsterdam Opera House at noon to-morrow. Estelle Carey, Canadian soprano, will sing at the New York Strand next week, Maurice and Florence Walton will dance at the Selwyn Theatre Sunday evening. They leave for London soon, Zalmani and Makaliff of “The Greenwich Village Follies” are pre- paring a dance called “The Last of the Navajos." “Fair Helen,” which will open at the Shubert on Nov. 3, is a hit in Boston, reports say. Oscar Radin will direct the orches- tra when ‘The Passing Show of 1919" opens at the Winter Garden to- night. Julia Marlowe, now playing Shake- apeare at the Shubert, ts to write her memoirs for publication. Susan Given joined the cast of “Scandal” at the 39th Street Theatre last night. Ruby Norton of “Nothing But Love” receives a dozen American Beauties nightly from an admirer in Newburyport, Mass. Well, now! Frederic Arnold Kummer, author of the book and lyrics of “The Magic Melody,” has a new song. W'Iner é& Romberg, the producers of the play, are doing as well as might be ex- pected, Arthur T. MacHugh, who is known as Smiling Art, is putting p'eces in the papers about “Ed Wynn's Carni- val.” He says he'll soon be in a posi- tion to lend Joe Flynn money. ANSWERS TQ INQUIRIES. Suffannin—See Joe Hart, New York Theatre Building. Oscar--Isabelle Lowe Dancer,” at the Harris, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. A bank should be cleaned out by the janitor, not by the cashier.— Henry Lewis. 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