The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1919, Page 12

ee | COMIC PAGE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, ; THE NEW PLAYS o Elsie Janis Scores a Hit With “Her Gang” BY CHARLES DARNTON H*: hail Eisie Janis and “Her Gang!" They give the brightest and liveliest musical show in town. If you're looking for a rollicking time you'll find it at the Cohan Theatre. Good as they were, soldier boy shows becam Tepetition when the “drives” were on. But this soldier-boy-and-girl show is #0 Rew and so clever that It offers capital entertainment, There's # happy g0-lucky spirit about it that drives dull care into No Man's Land and gives one a sense of being thoroughly entertained Now that the war has taught Miss Janis a new trick, she #hould “earry on” with the work of writing her own “books,” for the thing she is doing now is a far better thing—to steal a phrase from Dickens—than she has ever done. The “jokes by everybody” have an easy fling, and the songs by William Kernel!, Elsie and others are refreshingly tuneful. Jerry Hockstra has an uncommonly good voice that he gives to “Some- where in America.” and “Just a Little After Taps,” and Charles Lawrene« Fith his suscoptibic “temperament,” suggests a combination of Krink ‘Tinney and Eddie Foy. Then there's a jazz bund that enlivens even Cob lens, strange as this y seem, and here, if you please, is a Of the old “Florodora” scxtette music. It's all very simple, foenery. Talent is worth more than any scenic artist ‘can give to the tage. Miss Janis’s talent has developed into little leas than genius. Bisie bas become @ real artivte. She dances as she never ¢ od she went to France. She is grace \iself. of good dialect stories inimitadly As for the boys in khaki, they’re all “regular fellows,” full of fun even when they are heartily noting the “M. P.” who interferes with their fun from time to time. But they are unfailingly human, whether shooting crepe or a cigarette. Hva Le Gallienne and other girls help to keep up the Pace of a swiftly moving performance. All through it, Klsie Janis is at her dest—and she's the best ever! a bit tiresome by Incidentally, she About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY HE name and address of a cer- | this strife, 1 want the house comfy for LITTLE MARY MIXUP It’s All in the Way She Says It! ; jonas — vena gpa A _ ee —_—— ee \ eevee Now + \Baw-w-w-we! | \ ky in a lel | |) AW=w Ww ] MARCH Ren | LFhimtvaly | > MARY CALLED Mie > Lu Pecer | | awew-) [bee ‘ ALONG , Youne- J Co ag get ay nn = #BooB~ You must | |t ye | jl hoot LY Ore a oE Ne [ SoRRY Youre | | co ~ site Din f oS PeGeY AND — aS eT a names TELL HER YOuRE sorter} Mhatlalog 3 3 a —_—m— j pee iar Sg SRS Ive DoT { BEEN DowN To mH PHOTOGRAPHERS . i] P oe “MRO Grok" ‘ ‘FIDO ' Weve Had \ | “BEAUTY AND “THE BEAST" You KNOW jpiahilacmsiniy JD — OUR PORTRAITS tant ba 7 77 \NHE Re = “TAKEN Yo-GeTucR! ead! AN WOT ae err a A LiL BEAUTY s DID ‘You GeT — ~——-- dec et y Te Brood HouND ~ ee \ 2 a peas ; sg tain young woman in Hartford, Conn, will not figure in this jtory, but they may be obtained by | any manager who wants to engage! an actress who can and will double in stenography. This letter from the “eertain young woman" was received vy us last night: “Dear Sir: Iam an applicant for place as actress in a genuine com- pany, on Broadway, if possible. I am twenty-three, have blond heir and am light-complected clear through. Am ut present working as a stenographer in @ man's office, but prefer acting. I done f can act, as I frequently do here in the office. Often { act sick, and my employer is completely fooled and lets me go home. Then I act ionesome, and he will take me to a show or to dinner. 1 act many moods and they fool him every time, Can you inform mo where to apply for a Place as a regular salaried actress? “P, 8-4 might take notes for the playwright while the play wee being staged. Also could type out the parts tor him.” TO OFFER. “CURIOSITY.” A now play called “Curiosity” is to be presented at the Greenwich Vil- lage Theatre during the week of De- | ©! 2 comber 15, It is announced that a’ prominent woman star will head the cast, What's her name? Ab, that's the curiosity part. THE COMMUTER'S DREAM. Oh, the dreams I can dream to the click of the rails, When speeding along to the city! It seema that I'm gliding o'er Fairy : Tand trails, ‘With ev'ry sprite singing a ditty. I lounch a great scheme and the dol- lars roll in, In mind I grow richer cach minute, There's nothing I tuckle when dreams I begin P But what I find millions are in it. I lead a great army in battle, and soon » I'm famous, and people acclaim me; I capture some trenches euch day be-! : fore noon— Oh, P'm eo blamed wild they can't tame me. Then, maybe the White House is of | fered to me— The click of the rvaila is whut wonds if; Right there comes the brakeman, who sings oul: “Squeegee! | © Change rawzzle umph smosh!” | And that ends it. NUTT'S DOPE. Jeff Nutt, spectal correspondent of ‘this column, wired us from New | Haven last night as follows | “Dear Dud—Ran up here to see if | Harvard intends to send her fcotball | tirst team to Valifornia to play the Seat- | “Ale mine. Will go over to the college now and let you know to-morrow. I understand a will start in New York next week Will run down and cover it for you} 1 and the wife botb| wext Monday, hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Pharm s a Up here that the carpen- ers on their strike on the prize- fight stadium in London, Don't know much about it but will get next to Somie of these New Haven newspaper wuys and get the vope on it for you Yater. Do you know any real cure for corns? 1 and the wife have both got one—and, boy, hers makes her darned uninteresting.—Jeff.” BY WAY OF DIVERSION. » Said Silas MoGuggin, in Pee weep! store: “I'M never burn coal at m:; ‘house any more. This str’'ke and the| shortage have got my goat good. I've) x we purer go ft will I've bad twenty cords on | morning I | you, litte wife." | Richmond” ix-day bicycle race | Old Grandpa Me- Gee put a chew in his jaw. Said he: “That's fine, Silas, It's dandy-—hur- rah. To think of your wife shows you got a big heart. To make her right comfy you've sure did your part, I seen her to-day in the yard with her axe just givin’ that woodpile some turrible whacks. You lettin’ her apt it will make her grow strong. The woodpilé ts jeat where all women be- long.” Old ‘Silas arose and he said with @ sneer: “They ought to run fools like McGee out of here.” He left and Speck Hogg gave old Grandpa a slap. “By golly!” be said, “Mrs, Si's got ap.” CARROLL 18 CASTING. Earl Carroll has engaged Henry E. Dixey and William Ingersoll for roles in his new Chinese comedy-drama, “The Way to Heaven.” GILBERT GREGORY ILL. Gilbert Gregory, actor name is W. J. Gonzal the Presbyterian H. turned from Europe a week ago after serving ag an entertainer among the soldiers under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A, and became fil on leaving the ship. He has a son whom friends are trying to locate, \ . Gossip. JBreiyn Gosne}l bas returned from 0. Arthur Hammerstein is back from Boston, where be saw “Joan of Ar- Motion pictures of Ned Wayburn's Demi Tasse Revue were taken yea- terday at.the Capito! Theatre, George Marion is staging the book and Max Scheck the numbers in “As You Were.” Swann Wood ‘has succeeded Louinc Brownell in "The Rose of Chinu.” The Gerry Boclety discovered Miss Brownell was but fifteen years old, Charles Derickson has recove: from his illness and has rejoined fe of “The Greenwich Village Fo! ies." Susanne Willa received a letter at the Princess ;the other night ad dressed to ‘Susanne Villa,” She says she is no banditess, Raymond Hitchcock will make a flying trip from Detroit to appear in the Friars’ Frolic at the Lexington, Dee, 21. The usual Sunday night concerts will be given to-morrow at the Win ter Garden, Lyric, Central, Selwyn und 4th Street Treatres, Charles Winninger of ing Show of 1919" has challenged John Philip Sousa to a clay pigeon shoot- ing match. Boots Wooster will appear in Leo Ditrichstein’s company under her real name, Ruth MeVine. 4 grown-up lady now, you know The Crescent Dramatic Company of Brooklyn will present “The Belle of at the Bedford Branch 12. Y¥.M.CLA Oliver Me two new musl- cal numb in “Linger Longer | Letty” at Fulton Theatre last night. One ts called “My Little b eh [land Higihball” and the other “China- | Jand,’ A new ball room dance, the Hirsch ‘Trot, has been found at the Terrace Garden Dance Palace through a com- | petition held by Evelyn Hubbell, It) Was invented by Hyman Hirsch and, | acco! arcus Nathan, it is the roam step discovered ns years. It iy popular at the Dance Palace and the Pabst Harlem Dance Hall A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. |. When Jep Wilkins of Wellsville heard Jenkins had been released, lv he surely would have gone to Mex ico if Carranza hadn't done the right thing. Jep missed the World War by about two hours, The day the he bad made up his mind to v teer for service in the front trenches. 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