The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1920, Page 28

“All I know albout it is that it’s out » THE “No More “Ne in fact, that lust night it mad: t: NOT as bad as it sounds, laughter—treasure the phrase! Riverside Drive Mr. Truex's specialty ng br getting married in hi isure, Some day some playwright May give him a br nary; Wut he is sti) uncommonly young for ~ tim will probably be kept on tha jump for at least fifty vev Otio Hanbach kecps up the pace set by otfer authors with the farce he has made from a Story by Edgar Mra to Mr. Franklin I do not kr but 1 the funniest thing Hanbach has done than a houseful of fun. The di t bridegroom is w In this instance he comes from up state he goes to luncheon with a bionc eoncern, Just for that his bride gor in grand style gs the caretaker of Does this house contain 4 fact that “No More Blondes caretaker no sooner goes to of the hduse pops in unexpectedly it's a matter of. thin clothes and linc broad. Wives and husbands Morse a wild Westerner, the brother a husband of his sister, thrusts a on the chest and back until the poor fellow nearly c: In this scene Mr. Truex was too @nd gulp. At other times he was in He should guard against extravs and speech. ford as a mercenary butler, Leo Don others helped to make “No More Blon NEW PLAYS °|| A Houseful of Fun! BY CHARLES DARNTON _ ~ft Ms bride in a great city/ until he finally drew her to do know that “No More Blondes" is for the theatre, It is nothing less 1y8 a source of innocent merriment. ate, and on the first day of his happy de ¥ nt for an automobile and he doesn’t know where he will go until a real estate dealer sets bit | are hopeless! ance, and practice economy of gesture Nancy Fair, Wileen Wilson Blondes” ) More Blondes” is such a good farce, Maxine Eliiott'’s Theatre ring with n the moment Ernest Truck lost his flat chest on ides on river and land. He is always Mr, Harbach owes nklin. How muc sto the Martha Washington Hotel, @ house on Riverside Drive. You will find the answer in the nds production, ‘The volunteer wife of the owner ly for bed. Then at are a bit “thick,” not to say mixed, and to make matters of Mrs. Powall, warms up to the sup- big clgar between his lips, and slaps lapses. funny for wofds—he could only gasp nclined to turn farce into burlesque. st “pretty and engaging—Dallas Wel- nelly, Eliz Gergely, Mariel Hope and des” an uproarious affair, | About Plays ; __By BIDE DUDLEY PWE] LIAM A. BRADY has effected an arrangement whereby he will present, in the near fu- ture, Mary Nash and Holbrook Blinn 4 co-stars in a play called “Man and Woman,” by Benjamin F. Glazer and Carlos Bonhomme. It is an adapta- tion from the Spanish. It appears to us that the combination of Mary|K' Nash and Holbrook Blinn in a play should be an exceedingly effective one. ‘ HE'D HEARD OF IT. ¥) We have been reliably informed that 4n old lady stepped up to a police- man on Broadway yesterday and said: “My pocket has been picked.” “What did you lose?” asked the ‘sop. “A ticket to ‘Lincoln.’ * “Well, don't worry. Go down to) the railroad office and they'll cancel & and give you another.” ‘The old lady frowned. “Evidently you don't know much about ‘Lin-/| coln,’” she snapped. | “I admit it, lady,” replied the cop. ‘est somewheres and that this guy iryan, who run for President half a jozen times, lives there,.’* A PICTURE OF JEFF. * P bt Ogden, twelve years old, of | Woddmont, Conn., is an artist who ‘uses neither brush nor pencil. He es pictures with @ typewriter. In mail to-day we found a very good Mkeness of Jeff, Nutt, Prescott with his machine, Our only, ebjection to it is the straw hat Jeff is made to wear. The truth is, Jeff gaved his money last October and bought a derby. When he bought it he wrote us a note in which he said: “Dear Dud—I and the wife bought me a derby hat to-day for two bucks apd a half portion. If you eyer want to hold any raffles let me know and| I'l lend it to you. By the way, the, wife thinks you're handsome,’ but) vhat's nothing—she thought I when she married me. JEF YOU'RE ON, IRVING. Irving B. Fellerman of the Bronx 1s glad the Borough Poets’ War 1s on} again. He says he loves to fight, and fires the following broadside at the enemy: I wonder if that Flatbush guy, Thinks he is great and clever, Td like to know and ask him why That place has him forever, For you can frame those Flatbush curls And start to pack your trunks, Tu take you where there are real girls, You've guessed it—in the Brunz.| COP SAVES OLIPHANT. | Charles Emerson Cook, press agent for “The Wayfarer,” at Madison Square Garden, met ‘Tom Oliphant on Broadway last night. “How's the big show going?” asked “Fine!” replied Cook, “but we've got to get out after next week to make way for the Poultry Show.” “Going to take the scenery?” “Sure! Why?" “I thought,” said Tom solemnly, “that you might leave,the settings for the hens.” A policeman prevented trouble. THE GALLERY SUGGESTS. “I went to a show in Jersey, City the other night,” writes I at No. 30) West Sith Street, Car Snow, Manhattan, “and an ainusin| ‘thing happened. At one place the vu Jain said to the var *‘I'm going to kill you and put an end to everything’ “Just then somebody in the gallery wang out: ‘Why don't you kill your- self and put an end to nothing?’ “I thought I'd die laughing.” GOSSIP, George Vivian was operated on this morning for spnendicltie at the “drawn” by hitch, 1s | looking. i} in Buffalo, Ada Mao Weeks still) heads the cast. eel Carroll Fleming will direct “the | making of the next Schomer-Ross | picture. Dolores Cussinelli will have| the iead. ~ The next performance of “nient | Lodging” will be given at the Ply. | mouth ‘Theatre to-morrow afternoon. | Lee Shubert has engaged Cyril shtley to play opposite Rachel hers in the new Crothers comedy, ‘He and She". Doraldino, Florenz Ames, Adelaide Winthrop and Mignon are now in “Frivolities,” opening to-fight at the 44th Street Theatre. Frank G. ;Hall announces _ that Benny Leonard’s serial film will be called “The Hvil Eye.” It's by Roy Mc Cardell, not Oliver Optic, Ruth Shepley, who was il for a fow days, has resumed her role ‘in “Adam and Eva" at the Longacre Theatre. George M. Cohan's second tion as an individual producer will pe a musical ptege by Otto Harbach and Louis Hirsch, \ Geraki Bacon ts getting ready to place in rehearsal “Princess Virtue,” | the new Browne-Hiliian-Rice musical piece. John Howard O'Neill, known in vaudeville as “Doc” O'Neill, has quit the stage to be a contractor in Chi-| cago, The Unity Club, made up of college) boys, had a big feed the other night! and then saw “The Little Whopper.” | At least, so President Slim Nathan advises us. Virginia Lee af “The Greenwich Vil- lage Follies” is introducing a new dance step called the Marionette She invented it after watch- ing Bessie McCoy Davis dance. Malcolm McEachern, Australian basso; Redferne Hollinshead, tenor, and Alice Nichot, soprano, will sing at the Strand next week. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. Sheflin—Don't know where Miss Simmonds 1s. | Watson—Sure you may name him Dudley, but I wouldn't if he's good A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Leon Errol. the champion “drunk” of the American stage, never takes a | drink, FOOLISHMENT. There was a young lady named Blair, Whose brother went out on a tear, Said she: “Holy smoke! He's stewed, the poor bloke, He makes my mouth water, I swear.” FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “He discharges the workmen when the firm is through with them," “Conducts the fire department, eh?” dotliat oa COULDN'T FOOL THIS KID. OWNNY paid his first visit to a farm the other day. All his life he had lived in the heart of a great city, and when he suddenly came in sight of a haystack he stopped and gazed earnestly at what appealed to him as a new brand of architecture. i} ‘Say, Mr, Smith," he remarked tc |the farmer, pointing to the haystack | | “why don't they have doors and win- | \dows in it?" ind windows!" gmiled th« at ain't a house, Johnny; to josh me, Mr. Smith!’ seornful rejoinder. “Don't suppose I know that hay don't w in humps like that?’—Minne- [ polis ‘Tribune __ CLOTHES AND COFFEE. HILF in the army I was ace | W companied by a Sergeant| | who, to hear him talk, was one of the brainiest men Uncle Sam | had hired. On pass one Sunday, in le certain town, a young woman we! |met on the treet asked us if we) Jeared to go to her house and have a| offee. On arriving we were | “1 to her mother, who made | ard to her appearance. “I go and put on | } © the percolator. ve The Sengeant sald: “Oh! you look | all right the way you are."-~T, F.* 4n the Chicago 7: Set a COMIC PAGE | THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 vat ruc s | GET A SPOON, BUB Car ntn. 1900 Fromm Peviahing On (HY Rvening World) JOE'S CAR WELL , 1S POSE I'S ‘LENrTiON’ “TROUBLE AGAIN! ALWAYS HAFTA LAY DOWN A MILE FROM Home ? DOROTHY : COME ON IN, MY BROTHER | 1S HERE ~ < ne AVERY DARK ao Be oTHEAK éav'! wor TH’ SAM HILLS TH MATTER ne A eae 4 WITH YouR BES? J He EE in! AN' HES STILL FoR TH’ NEW KEEPIN’ HIS ) word ! ——s — ere S SOME (MARY tAVE YOU DEEN = = moa aes Beck sTeAK [ FEEDING TOWSER AT THE | Bur T cvrss “TISWSER — am TABLE 2 Tve BEEN WHISPER, SO iS FEEDIN’ BROTHER MOM WONT , HEAR 4 —--BUT © wAS AFRAWD YOU WOULDN'T GET HERE AT ALL JOE’ ¢ FroRcoT “To “Tett YOU 3 USED NEARLY ALL “THE GAs IN ~1H‘CAR YesTeRDAY!! 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