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By BIDE to those employed Theatre Parisien. at t A PLAY FROM THE WEST. \ ‘Thomas Phillips arrived in New, York jest night from Los Angeles the manuscript of a new play| called “The Dawning of Truth,” writ-| ten by Natasha Navarre of Call- fornia. Mr. Phillips, who {is at the| Commodore, says he ‘will produce the play in Washington early in the new year, and will bring it to New York ts plenty of love. NEW FIRM HAS THREE. right, boys—let’s have some action! TYLER HAS A CAT. Laurette Taylor used to own a| canary and an Angora cat, Now she bas neither, George C. Tyler, her manager, owns the cat and tho cat bas acoounted for the bird, It all happened like this: | Te er en eee ete Ahastabia, the cat halabenod fo tina! didn't come to»an end yesterday at fhe bird cage open the other day, and| os ¢ imam iy became possessed of the | i notion that the canary ouch: to lose bhatt Magic Mol ii , Ite fdentity. Bo Anastasia visited the Porgy in dl tert a ti # cage and dined on the canary, When | dy" writes songs when he's sad, Miss Taylor caine home from her per- | John Cort ha Pd Foal yi $ formance in “One Nix in ttoine.”| Pell, roper, for “The Whirlwind.” be found one bird in Anastasia, and} The new Zlogfeld “Nine o'Clock + the oat very full and friendly. ' ‘atr,| Revue” wil New Your's Eve. It CM ET if ‘Tyler was 4 caller at tac Tayi huine | Will be called “Misa 1920. ‘the next day an! whe act * the cat. “You take Anastasia home." she . “Since she ato little Chirpy I have dot the slightest fesling for her” “But,” replied Mr. Tyler, roguishly, have a feline for mo.’ That night “One Night in Romo” ed to A capacity audiences, so both sar and manager were happy. o* OH, BLESSED REST! The readers of this column un- Goubtedly aro worn out with Christ- mas shopping. They will, 2herefurs, weloome the relaxation that: cumes from reading a real poem. For that reason we are offering to-day the} tatest rhyme from the threshing ma- ehine of Monroe Reeves, Road and rest: { | I married a girl in Bombay, And she was my bride for a day. For a handsomer man She gave me the can, And that's all I feet 1 should say. ess gave hiin | ctw OH bee kg ee ee tee PROFESSIONALS TO SEE IT. R. H. Burnside has arranged to ve a professional matinee of the rnside-Hubbell musical piece, “Miss | a flitons,” at the Punch and Judy F eatre to-morrow, it is announced that Mr. Burnside is trying to effect QB arrangement whereby he may take Over the little theatre on West 49th | | About Plays and Players DUDLEY | have TO WRITE A COMEDY. ¥, Ray Comstock and Morris Gest commission Boiton and dleton, OTS Adam "to write ahother cot of It will be trie | ne roud wit adway to be arranged. | George and American tite the spring opening on 1h IN “DERE MABLE” CAST. | A his new musica! "into rehearse | will include Louls Edwin’ Forsberg, M. Waizman, George Cukor, Betty Kaye, Yvonne La Voye, Maude Callahan, Kewple Collier, Gene | Diamond, Lillian Wells, Muriel Martin | at the Cap! the housekeeper of th clined to work. When a | said: | “Rar be it from me to spend the | with a ‘Jinx’ sign on it.” The joke Is on her, since, probably have noticed, the as you world | After fighting Johnny Dundee on | Janu, 16, Benny Leonard will act in films for Hallmark Ralph W. Long has resigned as |, general manager for the Shubert en- terprises Oliver Morosco other Harvard Diggers,” by EE ley. ‘Mme. Julia Claussen of tho Metro- politan will sing at the Hotel McAl- pin on Dee, 22/to aid crippled ohil- | dren t | Edmond Lowe of “fhe Son-Daugh- ter” has been engaged as leading man for Norma Talmadge in filme. ! “Carnival” wit] be produced at the Forty-fourth Street ‘Theatre next Tuesday, instead of Monday, Charles Belmont Davis, brother of the late Richard Harding Davis, is to | write screen material for Myron Sels- nick. ° Armand Vecsay has written a new jazz number for “The Rose of China,” At the Lyric, A new screen, which is said to give | aims depth, is being tried out at the | Rivoli to-day. i Leon Errol, just back from London, | will be headlined at the Palace next | week in his sketch, “The Guest.” | Later Mr. Errol will be seen in a full | evening's entertainment H Three hundred and sixty officers and men from the swedish Wattleship | Fyigia will see “Happy Days" has accepted an- ay. It is “The Clam anor Holmes Hink- s” at the | COMIC PAGE | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919 \ GEE! & srebd \t WROTE TS SANTA CLAUS FoR ONE —'obuT I see later. The plan is fianced by Western », Elaabeth siti capital: ‘The play deals with labor,| Henn! Beene | lcaraeny ie We pvtuting co ot 7 Brig Wore) capital and love. Let us hope there| (ine srt Woblaey, itaffacl, \, OFFICE 16 A MESS AN’ (ALL TH HELP LATE JOE’S CAR Caer te. 11%, Pre Paving Co (MY. eine Wail OH GEE, (VE GOT “TH IDEA! \'LL MAKE HER PROMISE. T'do ME. A GREAT FAVOR! i\ SHE NEVER BREAKS A sevele Na IROMIES bar! HAT 'N' COAT —- IT must 4usTce DOWN “To THAT STORE | = MY DEAR WIFE ~ I'M GONNA ASK YOU “T'Do ME A GREAT FAVOR — WILL Y' PROMISE ? sree, | WHERE ‘THAT SANTA CLAUS 1S Now ‘NEVER MIND! Ik Y Won't TELL You wHAT \T ts Te Y'PRomise! say. Know I wrote TS You FoR & SLED { week INSTEAD OF A- SLED ~BRING ME 4- S “ " y's s . , ND now New York is to have like this ¢ y down here but, the 4 Mom 1S Gon” " Gwe = eR PONY AND 4— wrisT- cade de hl babe amibo Fat + suup bones with all 7. ME ONE. “TOO ; WATCH moveue ith this end in! these ge rained here. She{ view has been started under the su-/ likes By the way, drop f of J. Robert Martin. As a/in that Chink’s ndry on Columbus ote ERS Yelanty a Avenue and tell him [’'m not trying | @idé line those interested in the| (rere eee ny bill, will you? If he theatre plan will present Irist: litera-/sayx 1 am, tell him 1 don't care {f! ture on the screen, The playhouse (ying never sells Shantung to Hono- wi operated along similar juju, JEP. ill be op 4 1 lar) ju SEVP.” Dodge & Pogany announce that the new musical play they are about te Ruth Alexander, “George Marton | — Z = — > eee Produce will be @ tuneful version of| Will stage it and J.C. Smith will put} P . 2 RFR yet id iba eg “Laasie,”| on the numabers, H [steno x Dent Home - TK / Fe Finigned YassaH! 6046! \ | EROAKDE Poor Bd! You musT Be “Tired! ey reiterate that w will stay pa * ! N - i my tt c y v2 “2 - also the Biblieal epectacio “Bsther™ NOT FOR HER } AN’ LESS IN MY OWN | LU (eatin be Beaehg CLEANED Boss ? ah! bbs eaeresat Ge @ drama called “Muse.” All} A film called “. ) OFFICE XX S'POSE. “TH . ALL DE WINDOWS: ae ARE ‘You : ‘¢ SMOKE AWAY DEAR ~ NEVER MIND ABOUT THE OLD CURTAINS! Nias ene THAT 1S -1 PRomise ANYTHING EXCEPT LETTING You GET “HAT FLIVVER !! | Street ds a permanent home of musi. | HiPPedrame the afternoons of Dec. | al comedy. wae Hoh | 4 4 A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. NUTT’S DOPE. | Whenever Samuel Hoffenstein asks wWe have received the following| “Central” for i number be adds: | communication from Jeff Nutt, spe-| “This inonth, pleaye!” gial correspondent of this colump, péated Guthrie, Okla: FOOLISHMENT. , Jud: I and the wife ran out] wrenover May goes’ o here to feé if there is any truth in oes ae May goes out to skate | Pr eee ee the report that Col, Miller will offer falls, sume young guy, sure as} S : $200,000 for the Willard-Carpentier fate, JF You Stake MY Might. It is true to this oxtent—he | pay that sum if Willard will lick | Dempsey, the man who knocked out Robert Fuiton. Carpentier, you know, ig the little Frenchman who won from | Gunboat Beckett on a foul recently. | ‘The Colonel wants the hattle to bs} twenty-five rounds and to take place in New York. I told him he'd have to see Tammany Hall, and he wald| what do you want? he'd be glad to meet Hall and talk ‘t) Me oY Boy--Mister Carr! | over with him, If you know Hall,| Angry Suburbanite--Well, walt for have him wire immediately. I dont the next on 1? Will laugh, but you bet — | O06 AGAIN, YOUNG LADY, | . . A rebuke he will get. | ( / y MESES ECURLS: She's sat on jiftecn up to date TL FEEL UKE GIVING SO We MOD ere OF NeeD vv ALL! i MY MIND Re ade : — FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, Angry Suburbanite (nttracted to | window by knocking on door)—Hey, | € : MY LADY NICOTINE. | be strictly accurate, it was not ' @ smoking compartment, but | the man was puffing away at a |chubby briar, despite the pained ex- Pression on the old lady's face, r the Pitt#burgh Chronicle-Telograph. By and by the olf lady, who was the only other occupant of the car, showed signs of getting excited. “Young man, he barked, as far a her coughing would permit her, w that it's wrong to smoke replied the man, as he en- 1910, by Toe Prem Fuouaning Us | Veloped the old party tn a wreath of | (The New York Evening World, P nt smoke, “Il use ‘4. From what anima! is the fur| alth.” “Health!” ejaculat fmown in the trade ag Hudson Sea . in spluttering tones, 2. What ramoug Grecian philoso- | ¢ declared the smoker, atili put. pher was a pupil of Plato? "i ing away like @ furnace chimney, | 8. What is the name of the pla Pt to {} 4 COMES OTHY ERE DOR “ys RI NSS JUST MADE & DIME FER | CLEANIN A AUTOMOBILE i ; poo HELLO EO N | UR IWHAT CHA 1) ) SUE es cp. DOROTHY {_SOAPY DA” |GONNA Have tL A ED EGG cC > . = ) toe wf LEMONA be ¢ Wo 4 ) imaure de { “that's the way they cure pigs." ; Z Repeal JN) a rel 3 where John Brown's raid occurred? |+"Then smoke away,” cried the hertine Weyer ai ‘f ase 4 What is tbe nume of the male ps) of the story. “There may be hope tor rn, JA ) Pee honey bee? { y you yet.” 30¢> 6, What bird was formerly Wagland in hunting game’ | . 6 Of what city was Ole Iiunson once Mayor? 7. For what industry {s Hollywood, Cal,, best known? 8, m what country is Robert Smiilic # labor leader? 7% Who created the character of Puddin’ Head Wilson? 10, What vegetable is improved in Plavor by allowing it to remain in the ogtound during the winter? \ 41. In what ‘country were the most famous violins made? 12. On what whip did the firet Pil- ims come to America? ANSWERS tobacco *% oes LAE GUESS | AGAIN used in — DISILLUSIONED. HERE was once a politician, for- tation was such that a league, meeting an old man from bis district, asked confide: “What do you your way? Is b TO YESTERDAY'S QUESTIONS. White sents 2, Barl Caddock; 3, if Bilm; 5, Gyr #6 By his sais initia Melnauss ®, Dougias; 11, ‘Texas; 12, bs » 1 don't know that I'd o far as to call him a Nar. but those as knew him down cur way do say that when he wanted hig pigs to'come for thelr teed he bad to get somebody else to call ‘em,."-—Bosten Globe.