The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1920, Page 20

i . NC CUO — won| KATINKA | THE NEW PLAYS| p= “The Wonderful Thing” . | Love With a Checkbook BY CHARLES DARNTON COMIC PAGE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1920 r — 4 ANT To + ; = OH, 1 HAVE A TH GOING Fae AN OP Tae fe TM GONNA Bam Nov 1e 1 KNoW/Eg uly, = 1 Never Wear & LITTLE SURPRISE i} UpBarlmrted A Give You A HANDLE ANYTHING OF MONGY IN B TRANSPARENT © ABouT i! a CHANCE ON | Bi LADIES KATINKA'S DAy off! f FoR You DEAR! WOMEN'S =] sxierts! AND Expect Hosiery ‘ To CLEAN a STOCKINGS! © AMERICAN HEIRESS going to England intent upon matrimony ould possibly be more liberal than the French heroine of “The Won- @erful Think,” the play by Lillian Trimble Bradley produced jast night ; Jacqueline had only come to America she would have been just in time ‘belp out with the income tax. As it is, she saves the Mannerby family financial ruin after the mother has lost all her money in the stock ‘ and @ younger son is unable to pay a check held by @ blackmailing » For these reasons the noble elder son is willing to marry ber, To from living more or less happily ever after, the villainous gambler her, asking for more, until he opens her eyes to the fact that Donald her for her money. Her husband can't deny it, but when she speaks Baving paid for his kisses, he generously gives ber one, and then rushes @rying “Gesdby!” But he returns a month later and a!) ends’ joyously. ‘The thing, you see, is love. most interesting member of the family 1s the younger son Laurie, EC EEEH LITTLE MARY MIXUP ‘qm hereditary drunkard, who starts the trouble [If Mra. Bradley had con- | a 7; 7 i tif, ~ ~ rived to have Jacqueline in jove with this youth her play would have gained bali TAB ua S CALLED iDEA, Pee~ | 60 Wiln'@o our On wine i — ae AND HE CaLLs @ great deal in human appeal and strength. Jacqueline does bring about his | e. Wii = Petormation by sending him away to a ranch, but she ls moved to do thia| [P vent ape Bi elle Fecrion MB = wit You 2 you MAR) Yeon on cue Fetuace] )T SOMETHING ELSE vol by weteety affection. While this may have been the way of things | De ty REECTION MAT Does Nr !—. 2—OF IT WENT ouT AND story by Forrest Hatsey, on which the play is founded, it seems to me WN CELL / _ Mra. Bradley might have found a better way of putting drama into the plot. aR SOUND LiKe 3 : ' y UNCLE 1S FIYUN’ IT ~ As it stands, “The Wonderful Thing” suggests love with a checkbook. i m * Jeanne Eagels was clever and amusing as the French girl, though her | falvete was not always free from affectation, She revelled in an accent easily caught by an apt young actress, but this entertaining quality was) ‘marred at times by a whining tone. Then, too, she never succeeded in strik- ding a deeper emotional note. Gordon Ash was altogether matter-of-fact, not &t all romantic, as Donaid—in short, quite the Englishman. Henry Duffey, + of the other hand, wasn’t at all English, though thoroughly human and * Ikeable. Frank I. Tiden displayed extraordinary coolness as the keeper of garhbling house, finally exposed as a forger. His persistence was really @ wonderful thing. Beit Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY UCERS' of theatrical enter- }cackted and everybody knew that the | tainment in New York are of |S°Tnerstone of the new Bugles club- 4 the opinion that there will be|Rowse had beon laid, Baby Vivienno VYES, LUKE — SMAGNesia’ 16 LATE “THIO MORNIN’ xi ‘ Rs ive LL ROUGH HER! “TH' Cook DoNT TWHere iT next came toddiing into the dining- %, \ Tittle or no Lenten slump in the at-|room, carrying a sledge hammer, Wild BREAKE EVERY MORNIN’ = Live “THAT CAN ‘ = \o! tapdance at theatres thia year, Not |Which should never ave peon lett! | us, repentant ee bok MADE \ HovD UP MY eATS ) PRONTO RIGHT AWAY, ane memregoere are any: the tons iaekisd'@ ooticds ot iega: ‘oft the dinner ‘ONCE IN A MoNTH! AN’ GET Be QUICK -Dve HEAR F Téligions, but each year more of them | table, but her Papa didn’t care, as he : WITH 17 o feem to do penitence in other direc- |aiready had egg on his vest. It was fiona, feeling that good. clean shows | 2ow, bedtime for baby Vivienne, so the sweet Little tot climbed the stairs areina meagurea necessity. Another merrity ainging ‘The Dead Horse . Temson why the theatrical business | Blues.” Now, children, how many of g@hould continue normal during Lent | you will promise to be like Haby . fo the fact that thousands of commer- | V‘Vienne? Hold up your hands. elal visitors, faving been delayed in aossip. coming to New York by the recent 2 blizzard, Sidney Blackmer has been engaged i are beginning to pour tM. |ro7 “Not So Long Ag.” 4 and these people are inveterate pa-| The shoes Charles Cherry wears in “Scandal” are six years old. ‘Margaret Wyoherly will be seen in “Jane Clegg” at the Garrick Monday aight, Grace Fisher is going into vaude- }¥ille under the direction of M. 8. Bentham. Lieut. Gitz Rice has teamed up with Hattie Lorraine ta play vaude- je. George Gaul, recently of “Rig! Game,” has signed a contract with ? cille Manion has gone to Chicago ) ‘He has sent us the following: to join the cast of “Betty Be Good.” | Dear Dud: Cand the wife have an-| | George G. Shor of the Rivoll has direea ales Pres. [invited young Blank Dpdley to see | we tig story mere, “Huckleberry Finn" there next week. | Kent Wilson bas been asked to re-| Norman ‘Trevor will appear as @ Chinese diplomat named | Joseph in the all-star revival of “The Hike that.|School for Scandal.” a Nepgrescaed John Price Jones, a young tenor, shouki butt tn and try t©/nas been engaged for the new “Nine | ji in ‘oodrufl what to do is more than | yGiock Revue.” ; and the wife can figureout. But we'll! felle Story is singing a new song i eae bottom of it, like we al-/calied “Beautiful Golden Land” in shoot the news in to you. |“Happy Days" at the Hippodrome. something to do with a Cab-| Anna Chandler, now in Keith vau- in Shantung, or some other | deville, has rejected several offers ta é E Bi $ . i i ust sit tight and Ijappear in musical comedy. She is } Wy investigate it for|singing songs by Sydney Landfield. | ant Yy yf says she thinks she'll} Louise Groody and Hal Skelly yes- | Hifi with Chinese in |terday rehearsed the Cornell unde Mp) producer, Blasco | graduates on the Liberty stare in_the on “The Song-|dances for Cornell's Spring Day Fes- stage it. If she does |tival to be held at the Hotel Commo- a lot of royalties, I'm|dore Monday. newspaper game} Sixty convalescent soldiers, from | that is, providing I|the Fox Hills hospital, were the ives to the coin, Her | guests of Managing Director Bowes last week for thirty, |at the Capitol’s matinee yesterday. & new easy chair. already, so I just his resting in bed GRACE AND GRANDPA. E = if aele ; 2 =a & a § § fi : JOE'S CAR Conyeghs 0, Pr Pubbahing Co (MY. Rownng Wen BE Be Honest, Joe; i i i $ 8 HELLO “THERE. CASEY. You OLD CuT-uP! SAY LisTEN— WELL LL TELL You JOE - eo FA if se a GOSH ~ It WISH CASEY [cee 1 WONDER \ aud save the seat of hin pants, 1] Grace Davis, of No. 802 Gates Ave ri ; ’ JACK'S BROTHER Has A . ‘ ' y i Rear your new kid hoters ail might. | nue; Brooklyn, ropa us a note 9 ay] | | WOULD LET ME. KNOW “THis 15 Joe. was Jus’ | |car, an’ HE THiNks 1 May Hi) IE Vm ASKIN TOO MANGE HEVGA's OF RUT because maybe he's cutting « holier | column nichtly and neither of them SuMP'N | 1 THINK VLE WONDERIN' IF You'D DECIDED BE ABLE “T'GET IT CHEAP! ee J al GIMME “THAT NuMBER BACK T” tooth. Ain’ Bg BD iay in ten yearm. Grace A , iets lot-of emcitoment here, but cen leurs | iclones a limerick which she hns writ- CALL Him: UP~ AT WONT ON BUYING MY GAR YET? 'T'S A PIPPIN OF A Bus- ! ‘ 1 Jus’ Hap tt! ee nothing. Jeff. ten, and it’s a good one. Look: DO ANY HARM! 'S GONNA CALL ME — —_— ——— There was a poor fellow named ae WHAT ? He . age | THE DRY RUBAIYAT. dotaas YOU WHAT TODAY ABOuT IT AN’ THEN : Ladies jemen, orro’ night we wit Sosent tae orton | Who got a job shovelling anove. Be ‘by special request. Our next and final| He worked night and day, : fe one will be a rhyme by Bert| And then went away, : Here with a loaf of bread beneath the ne bought him a fine bunvalow. LET Y'KNOW — ? doug! A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. A fig of milk, a-giass of near-veer,| Mrs. Phoebe Huggins, wife of the yes, and thou, Wellsville dentist, served hazel nuts at Beside me singing in the witderness,| 2" Party Monday night without nut : + | crackers. Buch life—twere h—1, not Paradise, somehow. FOOLISHMENT, A ’ (By Walton B. Wiley.) yy A SLIGHT MISTAKE. Just to show that Prohibition ‘ Do: ue war cat Missed its mark both near and far, Bayes Theatre, was eee All the lawyers live on cases Digit Rae st) hady al raged is} When admitted to the bar. pa, ‘ost! = CEM . | "Bee that od tady?” he eaid pointing | FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Reena lnD Een TS Neen fo @ woman who was teaving the| “They're making the holes in dough- LOU ALONE f— Walt ‘ nuts smaller.” Pita | Pate eee “iu L Tew HER TM be just asked me it Nora Bayes | “To save alr.” Rng SUIT T ta here right along. Ble - $$ you're Nora.’ How About Golf Terms? "Oh, snd gv0dnems sake!” sald Miss BASHBALL player on one of his Bemem: days off accompanied an Eng- SLEEP-TIME TALES. Ush movie actress to a ball game. & owe if pgp titere |, 7B? Bnslish wir! was evidently very ‘at in tes chad Aabacen, ignorant of baseball, and the young day he said. “Muvver, where |™8 said to her: Bein iting melodies? I feet} “Ask me to explain anything you 3 Singing.” On hearing this her | don't grasp. : “A 2 I suppose same of these immediately went out to/ things are meaningless to you." snow, and chase Bunny Rabbit. “Everything go far is meaningless,” uted, the little girl ran into the |said the girl. “Soine of tho things and her mother put a pan ef are really silly | into the oven, for was thei “For instance?” sald the player. | iy" that evening? “For instance,” said she, “why do ‘know? It,was at thie junc- they call the seats the stands?” gid Tabby, the family dog, Philadelphia Star, pm 1 TLL Shy rye