The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1920, Page 24

- » @oeoming out and bust you one in the : Pg “gimme a 10 cent loaf of COMIC PAGE TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1920 I About Plays and Players Bo By BIDE URING the week \ beginning April 11 the Strand Theatre ‘will celebrate its sixth anni- twary, and Managing Director Eaton ‘of course, preparing a special pro- @ramme. A few statistical facts com ‘Baled in connection with the Strand Prove interesting here as an in- of the growth in popularity Wotion pictures, During the past years, up to Jast night, 1,095,000,000 Met of film passed through the Sirand's projecting machines; 13,140 Performances were given, and 25,680,- | 080 people paid admission. The thea 2a Lost and Found Department has @urned over to owners 79 per cent. of fl articles reported Jost in the house | fg Well a5 several thousand dollars im cash. THE TICKET-TAKER. Bhe doorkeeper at a theatre has some funny experiences now and then. Jotm Mullen, who takes tickets at the Hitinge, where Florence Moore is | Playing in “Brenkfast in Bed,” was) on @uty fast night when a sprightly WRtle old man approached bim and e@ked : “Say, what's the tuition to get into this show?” ‘During the performance Saturday might a man came put and, approach- tg Mr. Mullen, said “ow ‘bout me getting dismissed a Mittle watie?” Then, about a week ago a big man With bands like hams approached Mr. Mullen and said: *Say, my friend, I'm a’going in to gee this sbow, but ff it ain't good I'm pose.’ ‘The doortender had one of the ush- fs watch the man during the first hmlt of the opening act, “He's all right,” the usher reported. “He's laughing his head off.” So Mr. Mullen remained on the job during che rest of the ‘evening. WANTS TO LEAVE HOME. A Broadway manager received a Ietter yesterday from a young man in Stamford relative to a chance to be @n actor. It said: “Dear Sir—Give the young man his hance and don't keep bim down. am working in a grocery store, but don’t like it, having an ambition to on the stage. Have seen many and believe I can act as good as they do. Have you an opening in @ tragic play for a hurd worker, good Idoking and wants to leave home? Drop me a line dnd will come to see if you will pay haif railroad fare- aon you have success. Have plenty clothes. Yrs. J. M. B." MER PURCHAGES. "An old negro woman, according to Sweatman, the hoted advance stopped in front of a store yes- and gazed longingly at a lot of chickens displayed in a win- dow. Finally she went inside. *“Mistah,” she said to the clerk, “does ye" ajl sell dem cfickens by de dozen?” “Why, yes, if you want to buy them it way,” he replied. ye old woman looked at the chick- ehs <istfully a moment. “Well,” she fimally said, taking a dime from her THOSE BRIGHT SAYINGS. We have decided to inaugurate a ‘Bright Sayings of Children” depart- ment in this column. If you hear a youngster say something bright, send it in, together with a dollar bill, and ‘ahy other little gift you wish to make us, and if it is good enough we will print it, (Louis Robie has sent us one alrea@y.* He writes that his little laughter climbed on ‘his knee e other day and said: “Grandpa, can you keep a secret? Yea, indeed,” he replied. “Weil, keep it, then,” said the little girl. " POETRY. If you jind you're stumped for true, Quit! There are things you cannot do, Quit! When you see you've started wrong, Don't plug hopelessly along, Simply smile and change your song, Quit! If you're using the wrong track, Quit! fry some other one a whack Quit! Now, perhaps in this you see Bad advice; you don't agree, As to reading it, then—gee! Quit! BRINGING IN THE WASH is not the only pleasant task of wash- VAN’S NORUB 16 years ago. the hard work by making rubbing Try it once and you Se and 10c at Your Grocers. .VAN ZILE CO., Mfrs. West Hoboken, N. J. Pin by white men? DUDLEY sent at Garrick Theatre. will include Hilen burg, Moroni Olsen, | Henry Stilman, Ralph Roeder and Byron er, The members of the chorus be Miriam Kiper, Leah Marie Minard, Margaret Fransioli, arion McCrea, Dorothy Cheston and Cornelia Ripley Gossip. Emanuel Baer of the Rialto is the ot a new girl sford Wilson of “The Night used to be a bartender at @ ntain matinees The Van Janet at company Volken- Youur, special | ds |. Ba | Be | soda f | Jenne. t j the 1 | study named Alfred Hickman, who staged “The himmying elephant at ne, NOW has an under lie. | Passion Flow gone t» Havana. Serge solo called “On the Old Tumulus” tn the Russian Isba at the Lexington. Adcle Rowland assumed the title role in “Irene” at the Vanderbilt Jast night anc scored a triumph, Santa Maria Council, K. of C., will havo « big entertainment at St. Ste- Phen's School Hall to-morrow night. William Harrigan will be the guest of honor at a “Harrigan and Hart Night’ at Healey’s Golden Glades to- morrow night. Edythe Baker, a nineteen-year-old Kansas City girl, has been making a big hit in vaudeville squeezing jazz out of a piano. More than that, she is the composer of “Blooey Blooey.” Mona Mode, a Texas girl of oil wealth, has been engaged for the “Florodora” revival, She will be seen in a tall brunette role, Max Spiegel is going to Logdon in May to supervise a production of “Look Who's Here,” the musical show now at the 44th Street Theatre, ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES, W. D.—Nazimova played in “War Brides.” Gold Star Mother—Dougias Mac- Pherson of “Shavings” is not 4 cripple. ‘ A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. John Mooney, who was fined $10 in New York recently for kissing a pret- ty girl he didn’t know, is busy saving another ten.—Wellsville Optic. FOOLISHMENT. He never kicks at Easter hats, The bills don't make him roar, But then, this man's a mittiner, He sells 'em at his store. at the Belmont, has Borowsky is singing’ a new | one ie “| HOUSE MAIDS' UNION MEE _THIS APTERNOON AN’ 1 MUST BE THERE WANG DING IT- Th GOIN’ BET THAT'S HUGO= HE Down To THEIR CLUB ROOMS F PROMISED To CALL UP AND TEU ME WHAT YEP, 1 DASHED RICHT WHILE THEY WERE InN SESSION AND YELLED “THIS UNION HAS COTTA Bust uP'd the LITTLE MARY MIXUP BY THe wayY— I wonder WHERE TLLIE O#- No -Tituie 15 Suck 4 Quer Tne GIRL —SHE Wound NT WANT “To PLAY GAMES OR ANYTHING Sa “ROVE — Now MARY, YOu MUST ENTERTAIN PAARY HAS A> Cues. [| TiLLY — wilt DonT Te uttie vistton |bY6u stow HER 1S Hone THAN cousin TiLuwe FROM Peoria -Ius, —NoT EXACTLY FROM PEORIA EITHER - BUT FROM Keuuy S CORNERS, ELEVEN MILES WEST, PAST THe SAWMILL > ons ple oo avoy | — SS 2a. fn ME. ALL CooKeD GORA an UP tH WIFFLL BR KUL Mee SHe |= A ' Good FATHERS - WHAT HAVE You Done Now-You NIGHT HAWK! FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, | Mrs. Smith—Some ladies are coming | here to play cards to-morrow, Bridget. Bridget—Sorry, ma'am, I can't join youse, I don't play cards. ¢ ieomatemenlGiioeeene Jonah Outdone. HE captain was relating some of his marvelous adventures to a listening crowd. “T had a narrow escape once,” he commence), “while wewere couling at Madeira, me and my poor mate, Hill, had thrown off our clothes and was having a swim one morning, when all at once we sees a couple o' sharks making for us with open mouths, ‘There was no chance, 80 I makes one dive down into my shark's throat. Poor Bill was cut in halves with one bite. But I out with my knife and rips the beggar clean up with one cut. Not @ scratch on me when 1 gets out.” “One moment, please,” mid one of the listeners, “I thought you mid you were swimming. How about that knife, then?” “Oh, if you're so particular about a half-dollar knife, you tell the story yourself," replied the captain, “Be- wides, it wasn't my knife at all—it was poor (Bill's."—Anglers’ Gazette, Copyright! 1920, by ‘Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) 1. By whom was Helen of Troy kid- napped? 2. What are the smallest blood ves- gela in the body called? 3. Who had an altar dedicated to an unkn@wn God? 4. In what national park are the head waters of the Misgour! River? 5. What part of Obtha is almost 6. By what religious sect was Phtl- adelphia settied? 7. What Roman General captured Britan aw river forms a part of the y between Oregon and Wash- 9. Who wrote Hearth"? 10. In what country are the babile- fields of Waterloo? 11. Which is the most Southwest- ern city of the United States? What race of pec has heaviest (brain? ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S “The Cloister and the the QUESTIONS. +2, Republican; 3, Jugular; 4, Bill Sykes; 6," Baseball; 7, Maid of the Mist; 8, Cotton Gin} dcuador; 10, Moreover; 11, Single ; 12, Violet. PR bik Fn Hie) COME. ON UNDER GA THE TREE , SONNY, Hip AN” GET OvT O' alt THE RAIN f—L——- {my UNCLE WAS KILLED BY LIGHTNIN’ TANDIN’ UNDER THAT / JOE’S CAR apr, NO, Prom Pataiog Co (MY. Reelng Wes) H -“TOTAL NET INCOME FROM ABOVE SOURCES ~~ "mM A DAY LATE ANYWAY { (5:<? 16, wear and Tear, cosn! =e -Pivs ~V-MiNUs -2--! OBSOLESCENCE. — ??-7 SS iv: DEDUCT @ FROM “TOTAL OF H, OBS0 ~27-2-7 0B? CERN pamiy A onlesy. CaRicnns tet ey sd pana | 2-2 ] Q minus x=? ~D-~-# fy Chieee Wir iM sore aT BOG! LAST WEEK I LENT HIM A BOOK AND HE RETURNED tr MINUS Six Paces! I LENT JONES A . DICTIONARY AND HE @6 WONEST, NOW— ISN'T {. VT “TROE “THAT HE'S+IN THE AARBAT OF “TAUUNG HAR! 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