The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1920, Page 32

ae eS aS ae °° ee ee ee charming musical play at the Vanderbilt, 1s to ghange hands after this week. Beginning next Mon- @ay evening Adele Rowland will essay it. Eaith Day is leaving the cast Batuniay night to go to London ‘where, it is announced, she will head ‘the cast of an “Irene” company which Will be projected on April 6 at the Empire Theatre by J. L. Sacks. Miss oa" should be well suited to the ‘ _ | {NDORSE DRAMA LEAGUE. / fo aid the New York Drama " Beagve’s campaign for a membership endowment fund John Drinkwater, Daniel Frohman, Rupert Hughes, Ar- Qher Hopkins, Josephine Preston Pea- ; body, Laurence Housman, Robert Ed- coe fond Jones, James Forbes, Stuart a Welker and Water Hampden have 4 @igned the following indorsement of | ¢ the league's work: % “We believe in the work of the ‘New York Drama League in showing ho public the possibilities of the ~ — Mheatre and encouraging the theatre About lays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY "1H title role of “Irene,” the; The man had painted the sign: “House of Refuse.” GOSSIP. Frisco, the Jazz boy, has been en- gaged for the new “Midnight Frolic." George Broadhurst is at White Sul- Phur Springs writing a play. The opening of “Musk” at the Punch and Judy Theatre hag been postponed to to-morrow night. La La, a woman from India, has arrived in New York to be maid to Juanita Fletcher of “Apple Blos- soma.” Oscar Radin will conduct the or- chestra for “Florodora” opening at the Century April 5. Having recovered from a sprained ankle Madge Rush, toe dancer, is again appearing in “Look Who's dere.” leo Ditrichstein of “The Purple Mask” is writing a book on bridge ist. known as “Tho "has joined ‘the Eddie Cantor is singing @ pong |, written by Jack Osterman and Gus Edwards, The Doris Kenyon silver cup, of- fered i an Inner Circie Toddles con- test at Terrace Garden Dance Palace, was won by Dr. and Mrs. William Finger of Yonkers. fo realize thoxe possibilities. Every a wingie addition to the membership 4 ‘Mat helps the league on its way.” ‘ VERY GOOD, DOCTOR! A Mittle rhyme by Dr. J. Lewengood ‘das reached our desk. He informs us he intends to have Tom Gill, the Brooklyn tenor, set it to music, eo ‘that it can be sung and danced, Look ‘@t the darned thing: : He lived in Pana, Illinois, 4 Did this smart little boy, ‘ To think up funny jokes at times, Was his especial joy. “What country is my mother like?” One day he asked his Pa. “Don't know,” said Pa; the boy replied: “Ain't she a Pana Maf” 5 aga YES, WHY? “Bay, Mother,” said Irene Frank- lin’s youngest hopeful the other day, “I notice that the last place you look for a thing is where it always is,” “Well, what of it?” asked Mamma. “Why don't you look there first?” asked the child. BOB PEENCHED HER. A young man named Bob, said to be Manager of one of the Shubert ‘theatres on 39th Street, escorted a very pretty girl downtown last night, using the Broadway surface line. ‘When they reached 424 Street they Grose to eave the car and he stepped of ahead of her. Without looking ‘back be attempted to assist her off, taking a firm hold on an arm. Sud- dently he heard a woman's voice say: “Hey, Mistah, you drop dat ahm ob mine. Yo’ want ter peench it clean om Looking around Bob found his lady fiend bad been delayed by the crowd. BEN ATWELL ILL. i Ben Atwell, publicity manager for Bs the Capitol Theatre and a very pop- 4 uler man in Broadway circies, is se- riously {ll at the Princeton Hotel, No. 16 West 45th Street, with bronchial pmeumonia. Reports say he is making @ brave fight and has an even chance of getting well. ONE PAINTER’S ERROR, Gamuel Freedman, the Broadway Beau Erummel, put up a tent-house at Edgemere last week and commis- sioned a painter to put a sign on it ' yeading: “House of Refuge.” Yoster- day Mr. Freedman sought the painter and made some borrible faces at him. glee name led all he rest voting the whole programme, and another all but one number to his * eompositions, Both concerts, which took place in Carnegie Hall, attract- ed large audiences, that showed sat- isfaction and enjoyment by applaud- ing enthusiastically. The Symphony Sotiety presented | 1 the all-Wagner bill in the afternoon. | lovely « ] Robbed of Rosa Ponselle as soloist fi decause she had to sing at the opera a last night, Mr, Damrosch substituted two preludes for her announced num- bers, Altogether eight excerpts from the music dramos were played, tha prelude and Good Friday music trom “Parstial,” with violin solo by tave Tiniot, the concert mast dance of the apprentices f ture, the Rhine journey from “Sieg- fried,” the “Lohengrin” prelude, the “Tannhauser’ bacchanale, the love music from “Tristan and Isolde” and the “Hide of the Valkyries." Each of them was played superbly by this admirable band, Mr, Damrosch con- ducting with fine fervor. {he Philharmonic Society in the evening began its concert Brahms’s fourth symphony, ferently. Aj! the rest was Wagner, _ Mr, Stransky of excerpts from “Sieg- fried” and “The Dusk of the Gods,” AiMtady put cogether, and continuing a Be Good Friday music trom Mastersingers,” the “Rienzi” over- | ewinning with an arrangement by! Charles DiHingham has announced the’ re-engagement of Poodles Han- | neford and the Hanneford Family for Dext season at the Hippodrome, ‘The first performance of Arnstein’s “The Son of Two Nations” in Yiddish will be given at the Irving Place The- atre to-night. Maurice Schwartz will head the cast. Edwin Bjorkman, the Swedish au- thor, was the guest of Fred L. Tiden at last night's performance of “The Wonderful Thing” at the Playhouse. Hildred Charles, said to be a charm- ing Southern beauty of the brunette type, has joined the cast of “What's| in a Name?” which is coming to Maxine Elliott's Theatre, St. John G, Ervine, Nance O'Neill, Frank Bacon and Frank McGlynn will speak at the dinner to be given Sun- . evening by the National Arts ‘The second edition of Serge Borow- sky's “Russian Isba” opened last night at the Lexington Theatre, Sev- eral new features have been injected into the performance. | Alma Francis, musical comedy star, has decided to take a plunge in vaudeville in an act written for her by Edgar Allan Woolf and Harry Carroll, -Thieg Dramatic Aid Society, of which Alfred" B, Henderson is President, will have Its first social evening on March 18 at the Hotel Astor, Joseph Santley and Hassard Short | have engage1 Hinda Hand, recently of “The Better 'Ole,” to act with Mr, Sawyer and Ivy Sawyer in a new re-) vue which will be presented at the| Palace late ghis month. Bunice Sfzer of the chorus never goes to the country in the summer because she detests toad-frogs. Mais Loew will personally con- duct a party of film stars to Nash- ville, Tenn., Saturday. They will at- tend the opening of new Loew the- atre, ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. Feldman—Cannot use Jeff Nutt for advertising purposes. J. B.—He was married to a non- professional. No arrangement for him to come in yet, Reynolds—Apply to Harry Seamon, Hurtig & Seamon, Strand Theatre Building. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Another blind man came to town yesterday. He was selling shutters for houses.—Wellsville Optic, FOOLISHMENT. There once was @ girl-hamed Miss Capp, Who sat on.her best fellow's lap Said he: ‘his is fine, It's really divine,” Now, what do you think of the yop? FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “I understand your friend, the telegrapher, went crazy.” “Yes, he became-a regular luna- ticker, Wagner Music Has a Field Day A Negro Tenor—Russian “‘Isba.”” By Sylvester Rawling. “Parsifal," the Funeral March from in yesterday's output of mu-|"The Dusk of the Gods,” and the gic, one leading orchestra de-|"Ride of the Valkyries," all well played. | Rowland W. Hayes, a negro tenor, wave a recital at Aeolian Hall last | nent. There was a large audience, in which people of his own race predom- inated, that snowed a finely discrim- inating taste in the matter of ap- plause, Hayes has which a pinching ng of the “Manon” was exquis! | thoven's difficult “Ad s) ry worthy. His enunciation of both Eng- |lish and French texts was go by H. T. Bu ‘Taylor were voice of tistic- h notes, n from bs Coleridge- B. Brown, in admirable piano, “Isi terpaic of R week the hattan Opera Ho at the Lexington tful musical and in three scenes There was a Children's Day matinee at the Metropolitan that a host of 8 youngsters en. Thomas Chalmers for the first @ was Tylo the dog. For the rest |t was the original one, with | Mr f, the composer, conducting Jan excellent performance. In the eve- ning ther | fourth pe of Verdi's “Forza del Destino,” with Caruso, Rosa Pon- selle, Jeanne Gordon, Amato, Mar- was a capacity hagise at a cast, Mr. Papi conducting. te illicit is dones, Chalmers and Ananian in the FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920 rs HY THE G ‘WET’ SPELL] “BRAIN! cs na {dll KATINKA, 1 PUT A LOT OF OLD PAPERS ON D ng? 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