The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1920, Page 28

ne eect sme i] pee eater yegmercencartrs ro, J Yiff ‘ANCE O'NHIL is to be starred in “The Passion Flower,” by the Spanish dramatist, Jacinto Bonevento, The play will open at the Greenwich Village Theatre on Jan. 18. The original title of this drama was “La \ erida.” Bon- evento is the autho nds of In terest,” recently produced in this city. . ITS “SONG SCENES.” ed Wayburn's new music. Yue, which will go on displ Capitol Sunday, will be c Scenes.” Pearl Rega Burrows Fontaine will have the foa-| tured rojes. Also in the cast will be Donald Kerr, Albert Donnelly, | Lee LeBlanc, Dorothy Miller, Myra Bvans, Frank Johnson, Lucille Chal- fant and Will Crutchfield. RECORD BUSINESS. From the Shubert comes the statement that business In the theatres during the past forty- eight hours broke all records for re- oont years. Not since 1914 has the theatre been such a magnet for amusement-lovers as it was New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Last night's atttendance was not Guite up to that of the previous night, But it was tremendous, nevertheless. Anticipating a continuance of the holiday business, matinces are being given to-day at the Broadhurst, Ca- sino, 3th Street, Hudson, Gaiety, “a and Punch and Judy Thea- MEAN OF US, EH? Irene Barker has been singing five mumbers in the Ziegfeld “Midnight Frolic,” and a young man we know lias been very proud of her. Yester- he called us up. just saw a ‘Frolic’ programme,” he said. “Irene Barker's name ap- it at least five times.” think they ought to call programme ‘The Irene Barker eekly,’ don’t you?” “No,” said we. HELPING US OUT. | Mew Years didn't result fatally for ‘any of our contributors so far as we ayo heard. Henry M. Ehriich of No, 56 West Seventy-sixth Street, able to write the following: Jack Horner, Sat in the corner, . Drinking his New Year's rye, Along came his chum, Who gave him some rum, Which made Jack lose only one eye. ‘Then Robert Hyman of Np. 41 Jef- in Street, Brooklyn, ndtified us when he was young his am- thon was to be either a postman or a riage broker. You see he wanted to brine the mails to the gins. Send complaints direct to Robert, 2 Fist course Herbert Levene, the thea- tre ticket seller, had to have his say. ‘A note from, him positively states: ~ ton Star. “If politicians are looking for Pres!- Wential timber, many theatres last — coellaeoataie headquarters | | Week could offer Herbert is aiso qui Duncan Underhill tuned up his t~ewriter yesterday and played the following tune for you, dear 1 know an old codger named Hood, Who wondered if alcohol would Relieve alt his ills, | So he drank a few gilts, And decided that alcohol wood. “The Way- Ted Lewis possesses the D. gree~Doctoris Jazzandi rthur Han | J. de- bis mford last night will open at heatre Wednesday Blooms: “Res | Maxine Elliott's | evening Harry C. Browne of “The Little Whopper” will entertain the guests of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, Yonkers, Jan. 11 Hazel Aden is the Queen in “Aph- rodite. from Mississippi—the State, not the song Mabel Burke and her “Old-Time and Modern Song Revue” are back at Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Former, President Taft will speak Sunday night for the American Le- gion at the George M, Cohan After opening “The Shop" in Baltimore Jan. MacGregor will begin. staging Defense,” by Myron B, Fagan, The Winter Garden, Century, Lyrie, Manhattan Opera House and Central will have concerts Sunday erg will produce his + “Tick-Tack-Toe,” in Stamford next Thursday night. Lew Fields, in “A Lonely Romeo,” will follow Al Jolson at the Shubert- Crescent Theatre, Brooklyn. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES See Joe Leblang, Fitzgerald a. 8. Building. Donk—"“Happy Days" is at the Hippodrome, but many on Broadway enjoyed a happy daze Wednesday night. A WILD ORGY Every stool at the drug store foun- | tain was reserved for New Year's | Eve and at least a dozen people stood | up and sipped their soda as 1920 | came in.—Wellsville Optic. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY Rambler, of the Greenpoint Home News, has sent us a calendar that begins with February. That's day- light saving with a vengeance. FOOLISHMENT I know a young woman named Sam, Whose mother was Henry J. Lamb, Her father was Sue, And her sister was Lew, You may think I'm crazy—I am. FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE “John, we've had a burglar. He's taken my jowels.” “Oh, what of it?” “And he's carried off a pound of sugar.” “the villain! Wow! Help! Police!" / ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE. ERMANY wants to enter the League of Nations too soon,” said an official of the War ‘Deparment. “Germany thinks we can forgive and forget her unspeakabie atrocities in a few weeks or months, How stupid how German of her! _ “She's like the little boy who howled and bawled inconsolably after the den- Ast had pulled two of his teeth. "Cheer up!’ the dentist said. ‘Cheer little fellow! ‘They'll grow in oy ™ "Yes, I know,’ wailed the urchin, fbut not before dinner!’ "—-Washing- — KNEW WHAT HE WAS ABOUT. MEMBER of a national medi- cal association tells the follow- ing story at the expense of a physician: “Are your sure,” tient once aske: an anxious pa- e you sure that The Day's Good Stories I shall recover? I have heard that doctors have sometimes given wrong diagnoses and treated a patient for pneumonia who afterward died of ty- thoid fever.” “You have been wofully misin- formed," replied the physician, in- dignantly, “lf T treat a man’ for pneumonia, he dies of pneumonia.”-~ Harper's, COFFEE ALSO. 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