The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1920, Page 16

About Plays and Players RUSTY AND By BIDE DUDLEY you are & playwright and would Uke to have a gold meda! to add} to the collection on your breast, PUt forth your dest efforts during the Year that has just swooped down on Us and maybe said medal will de} banded you with appropriate cere- Monies. The Society of Arts and Belences has decided to give a gold medal to the American who writes the best play during 1920. The play must be produced in New York, but Mat, of course, is easy, and a mere Matter of detail. The society, by the ‘way, contracted the habit some time feo of giving a prize for the best @hort story by an American author, ‘That's ali for the present. We've got @o hurry through this column and Set busy on our play ‘THOMAS BRANCHING OUT. Augustus Thomas has broken out ‘with blank verse. At the Gambol the Lambs will stage at their club house on Jan. 11, a blank verse playlet by Mr. Thomas will be projected on the @udience as his first offense of this Mature. No, the film rights have not been sold as yet. POLLOCK DOING WELL. Channing Pollock, author of “The Sign on the Door,” is going to save a: fet on his meals in the next six weeks. Five different organizations have in- vited him to dine and then address them on various uplift subjects. Next ‘Tiiesday he will say a few sandwiches et the meeting of the Colony Club; on Zan. 14 he and Johnnie Drinkwater ‘Will pass, cach other the butter at a .d at'the Biltmore; on Jan. 27 the shérs’ Association will hear from Mr. Pollock—not while he’s dining, but afterward; on Jan, 28 there will be a Playwrighis’ dinner given by the So- eiety of Arts and Sciences at the Bilt- more, and Mr. Pollock will pe there to lash knives and rhetoric with numer- us other royalty receivers, and on Feb. 9 this same Poflock will answer a eertain clersyman's attack on the Stage before the Sunrise Club, at the Cafe Boulevard. It must be wonder- ful to be able to talk the props out from under the High Cost of Living. SUGAR FOR MISS BURKE. Billie Burke should worry about the sugar famine! In “Caesar's Wife,” at the Liberty, Turkish coffee and tea are served in one scene, and Miss Burko has furnished the sugar, at ‘times finding it difficult to get a sup- . When Christinas came, however, et Ali and Mohamet Selim, the two Arabs in the play, got hold of id carton of sugar and made Mins Burke a present of it. The ac- tress thought it mighty sweet of ~ them. (This little joke came without the slightest effort. Must be a funny streak in us somewhere, eh?) GETS IBANEZ NOVEL. Jobn D. Williams has exchanged contracts with Vincente Blasco Ibanez whereby Mr. Williams will have a dramatization of the novelist's story, “Blood and Sand.” It is a ramance of Spain, and will be the first Ibanez Novel to reach the stage. Eventually it will go into the Lionel Barrymore repertory. HERNDON IS PUZZLED. Richard Herndon, who will present ‘Nance O'Neill on Jan. 13 at the Green- wich Village Theatre, in “The Passion er,” has engaged Charles Wal- for the leading supporting role, dentally, Mr. Herndon is wonder- ing what a passion flower is. He re- quests anybody who may capture one to deliver it to him at the Theatre Parisien. ‘ LOEW'S FAREWELL. Arthur Loew, son of Marcus Loew, Be to marry Hildred Zukor, daughter of Adolph Zhkor, next ‘Tuekday if he lives through @ bachelor dinner to bo tendered him at Reisenweber's’ to- morrow night. N. T. Granlund, tn charge of the affair, has written gong which Mr. Loew will be com- plied to hear and, as further torture, WIN be forced to make a speech While Paramount camera men catch every quiver of his lips in films. The terrible part of marriage doesn't all ome after the ceremony—not by a darn sight. NUTT’S DOPE. We have just received the following * gommunication from Jeff Nutt, spe- ¢lal correspondent of this columi: Dear Dud—I and the wife didn't 4| the audience felt acutely for the poor have our New Year's calebration at the Merry Eats ¢ as wi | pected to, I'm sorry to say, W | got there we fe woman in the chair I had reserved and sho wouldn't vacate, so I and the wife left, However, wo visited other places pout town and I picked up a little for you, 1 don't believe it is ally known that there was a great deal of drinking Wednesday jnight. T'll bet T saw half a dozen people drunk. The wife #ays to tell you she didn't get full because she | didn't get the chance. You know, I didn't want to get in bad with the Government because I've got a Up it | will hav lot of news soon and I'll | be able to cop off = few scoops. I'm investigating this New Year's drink- | ing, and when I get the right dope, | | we'll tip it off to the Librarian of Congress and let him start Chief Flynn of the Copyright Department after the offenders, thus getting 1 big story. That's all this time. I see | Harvard beat Los Angeles at football out in Oregon.— GOSSIP. Mme. Marguerita Sylva will appear in vaudeville for five weeks, The Alamar Producing Company | has put out a “Buster Brown” show which is doing well. Nan Masonville is leaving London oon en route to New York with her Jazz band. R. H. Burnside wants to call the Punch and Judy the Little Hippo- drome. He has ‘Miss Millions” there. John Drinkwater, author of “Abra- | ham Lincoln,” will speak on “The! Playwright,” at the Garrick Sunday afternoon. “Idle Inn” will be played at the Jewish Art ‘Theatre, Monday night and “Lonely Lives” Tuesday. | One hundred and fifty Chicago gum salesmen saw “Happy Days” at the Hippodrome last night. Strange as it may seem, not a single wad of gum was found under the seats to-day. Marie Carroll has been engaged for Victor Herbert's new musical play, “My Golden Girl.” ‘This attraction is heading for Broadway Loney Haskell has sent us an origi- nal rhymed tribute to Ei F. Albee, which is 80 long we cannot print it. However, we'll tip Mr. Albeo off that Loney just idolizes him, George M. Cohan announces that his first production as an independent manager will be a new American farce called “The Celebrated Chums,” based on a story by Patterson Gi called “Madeleine and the Movies.” Johnnie Dinos, eight years old, of No. 28 West 97th Street, got lost in the Hippodrome yesterday after the matinee and had a glorious hour visiting the elephants and clowns be- fore his folks were located. A new dancing team in vaudeville is enmpored of Sallie Marrens and Ed- ward Seabury. Miss Martens for- merly was an instructor at the Ter- race Garden Dance Palace. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. When Archibald Clarence Tate, son af the Wellsville coal man, heard it was Leap Year, he quit curling his mustache and started a report that h’s father had lost his fortune. FOOLISHMENT, There was a young woman named King, Who wanted to act and to sing, She ranted and wailed, But her efforts all failed, Gee whiz, what a silly young thing! FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “His voice ts cracked.” “Speaks broken English, eh?” —_—_ MARC ANTONY'S UNDOING. WG HB schoo! dramatic society was Siving its first performance of the season and the play they had chosen for the momentous oc- easion was “Julius Caesur,” All went smoothly till Caesar's dead ody was brought in, and Mare Antony had to deliver his famous speech, He put his heart into the part and citizens, who were all presumably horror-stricken and overcome with jerief when Antony gently but firmly erasped, as he thought, the face cloth and slowly, very slowly, began to draw it back. Just then un excited whisper came from the other end of the corpse: “This end, you idiot!" But Antony was too much wrapped in grief to hear. He persevered and then suddenly disclosed to the intently gazing audience Caesar's doots!—Euston Free Press. [ THIS GUN IS GO Orr AT AROUND AND TO AUTOMATICALLY SHARP! ILL STICK SUPPOSED 12 O'CLOCK | WATCH IT Sf ony! ANT LITTLE MARY MIXUP =a AFTER SOU'VE SES GIVEN EACH GTHER XMAD GIFTS ? N OP SP0 MARY, oo8 HEW MAID HAS COMPANY — | Won't YOu TAKE ANOTHER CHAIR INTO The KITCHEN FoR THEM 2 MOE, WHAT'S “THAT FUNNY HISSING NOISE I HEAR EVERY Now AND “HEN! LEAVE IT TO LOU Or VEAe!— “Hees —THaT WORKID "MEL" Bloos !— L “oust To GE ABLE TO eeT AWAY WITHOUT HIS - “THERE'S A Lean IN “TH RADIATOR AN’ sHE's Bony over! a aoe errata ggs, Joe! 1 Houvet ONE OF YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS wAs TO | REFRAIN FROM SWEARING! = Bud- Coun HAN W*y Use a Chair When There’s a Table Handy! Aw, How “' Deuce CaN Y'KEEP FROM SWEARIN' SHEN y'HAVE. 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