The evening world. Newspaper, March 22, 1920, Page 22

— * which will be kept at the theatre as ORITHRION THHATRE, at T ia Street and Broadway, will become a motion picture house @m Sunday, April 25, under the direc- thon of Hugo Riesenfeld, managing @rector of the Rialto and Rivoli. It Will be used for feature films, each of Jong as there is a demand for it The ‘Brat picture to be shown will be Cecil De Mille’s “Why Change Your Wife?” written by William De Mille. The house will be redecorated before the change in policy comes, Lionel Bar- rymore, in “The Letter of the Law,” ‘will continue at the Criterion until the work of making alterations in the house interferes with his engagement. ‘The Famous Players-Lasky Film Cor- poration owns the New York Theatre ing, of which the Criterion is a i MORRIS TO PRODUCE. ‘William Morris is preparing to pro- dete a comedy by Edward Locke en- itled “Dorothy Dixie Lee.” Edith will have the title role. NEW CHATTERTON PLAY. Ruth Chatterton will begin rehears- ing in @ new play Easter week. It is comedy called “Just Suppose,” by EB. Tnomas. FRENCH COMPANY THROUGH. ‘The members of the Theatre Parisien Company closed their road ®@eason i Montreal Saturday night ‘and will arrive in New York to-mor- row, All but Robert Casadesus. Mrs. Cagadesus and Mile. Caubet will sail for Paris shortly. Next season the Franch company will play twenty Weeks in New York at the Belmont Theatre. | ad “ACTORS MUST THINK. "Speaking of actors who can't act,” About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY "|given at the Jewish Art Theatre) MONDAY, COMIC PAGE MARCH 22, | ETI OE PRC Attention, Limerickers! Niece ad aaa Well, now! J. J. M, @ Brooklyn |eociety girl, has written us to crit!- }eise our Limerick Contest. | “Dear Sir!" she begins, "I am con- |vinced you are gypping the public. You charge people $200 each to enter your rhyme contest and don't give them nothing in return, 1 could guess all your puzzles, but I'll be danged it I'll wend you $200 for the chance to do so. You oughin't to take money from the people, as it probably de- You @re a profiteer, and 1, for one, shall not send you any cash.” J.J. M. is @ harsh on us, we think. it is t We have received something like $200,000 from success- ful Limerickers sir we launched our contest, but we have never forced them to seid us bank references with their checks. We think we have been eminently fair in the matter and J. J. M. shall not stop us. To-day's rhyme concerns 4 person one cannot cessful contestant may send us $200 and @ nice cup of coffee (two lumps of sugar, please!) ‘Try it und sec if you cab win this contest; i There was a youny man named Van} Bibber, Who loved to just jabber and jibber. Buch big tales he told Of hero stunts bold That people belicved him a —— weekly hard-earned kale? ‘The hero's | wife. ' GOSSIP. H Frank Shea, comedian, is to head a| musical stock company in Akron, O.. this summer. | You probably never heard that Car- | re Nwtion was Wesley Barry's grand- mother. Well, she wasn't. | As stated here recently the Wd Wynn Carnival will open at the New | Amsterdam Theatre April 5. | The first performance of “Green| Fields,” by Peretz Hirshbein will be | ‘Thursday night. ence beard a young man apply to a director for an engagement. “‘Have you been working lately?’ asked the director. “ "Rehearsed eight days and was let think.” “?Well,’ said the director, ‘that ought to be reason enough.’ - WARDA SAID THINGS. Warda Howard, leading woman of 4 \aeatrical company now playing in ‘hina, writes friends here that the e@etom troubles of a traveller out iaat way are many, She submits the toLowing rhyme: harda had her costumes searched By oxstom men, who mussed 'em; ThE brutes, they soiled her pretty things, ‘And Warda—how she custom: — | WHY THERE 1s NO Horse. | in “The Hottentot,” there is a horee race run off stage. William Voller calls the comedy “A horse play ‘\ithout any horse play.” Once in the past Mr, Collier had a Vwneptinns animal ate the entire scene, em- bellished rambler roses, grass mats and the like. “it wag the memory of this ex-| perience,” said Mr. Coiller last night, | “that impelled me to dispense with (he horse in ‘The Hottentot.’ I want »o more horses on the stage to eat yt. my soenery. And, besides,” he udded, “scenery ie built for the act- ors to chew on, not horses.” GEE, BUT WE'RE FUNNY! Ank Kober writes us from Harlem = That's nothing. We've never cut| The bar! our 3 ber has always done it for us, ANITA WRITES ONE. } Anita Stewart, flmist, has sent us the following rhyme: ‘Who parts his hair with listerine; who gets fn on the close-up scene; who gets to kiss the actorine? The hero. Who wears a sport shirt decol- te; who vamps the girls most ev'ry day; who makes directors earn | their ? The hero, Who conquers Villain Von Skale; who earns tis money by the bal: ho cops the ee Sass (epvright, 19%, By ‘Tho Pros Publishing Ca (The 1, In what industry is the Bessemer process used? 2. On what river did the General Slocum disaster occur? % In what way can the age of a tree be determined after it is out down? 4. In what city is the terminus of tie aerial mail service for the New York district? 6. What is the mcred city of the Mobammedans? 6. What are ornaments called which are made by cutting semi-precious stones in relief? 7, To whom was the monument erected in the centre of Square in London? %. Por what purpose is turpentine pul into peint? §. What is the film cailed which t= used by a camera man in cold weather when there is danger of static? 10, How many signe of the Zodiac \ are there? 41, What ts the maximum deposit that can be made in the Postal Sav- Bank? 2. Who was the American Ambas- Sador to Turkey at the beginning of the war? ANSWERS TO SATURDAY'S QUES- TIONS. ein; 2, Lexington; | ville to-day for the opening of a new| d,! A cannon had been shot outside ; The Green Room Club will have its annual public dress rehearsal at the Astor ‘Thestre Sunday evening, Apri Justinn Wayne says one can pee al number of excellent 50-cent shows for $8 nowadays. Pietro Floridim, composer of “Pao- letta,” will conduct the Capitol or- Le ersty for that opera Friday eve- ning. Claude Beerbohm, son of Sir Her- bert Beerbohm Tree, wilt produce “The Bonehead” in Providence to- night. | A silver cup, presented by Dor-| othy Dalton, will bo the prize in the| exhibition waltz contest at the Ter-| race Garden Dance Palace to-mor- row night. ‘The Loew party is in Nash- theatre to-night. Besides Mr. Loew the party Includes Doraldina, June Elvidge, June Caprice, Anne Luther, Mae Murray, Claire Whitney, Lillian Walker, Rubye de Remer, Taylor) Holmes, Conway ‘Tearle, | Carlyle Blackwell, Juanita Hansen and Jack Clifford. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. Larson—Write Oliver Morosco, Mor osco Theatre. | Neldich—-Cannot advise you. Just keep trying. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Joe Barnes of Wellsville, who ed Now York to have ‘his eyes came home with two black o' ‘ FOOLIGH MENT. “I deg to differ with you, sir,” The maiden said; it caused a stir Nobody else was in the room, But suddenly there came a boom She tried io run, she tried to hide Who was this girl? you ask. Ah, gents, TU tell you each for fifty cents FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Why did the hotel make that man pay in advance?” “He selis fire escapes and carries 9 sample in his grip.” One Way to Remember. FE lay by the rondwide groaning and writhing with pain A policeman came up and asked him what was the matter “I ate one—I ate one,” moaned the sufferer, The policeman was puzzled at first, but quickly grasped the situation “Poison,” he muttered, All poisons have antidotes, Therefore i was Necessary to discover which poison the sufferer had taken in order to administer the right antidote “Well, what did you eat?" gently inquired the constable “You bilthering ass," retorted the sufferer, “1 didn't eu “Then why did one?" “Because 1-81 is the number of the Motor that knocked me down, you idiot!" yelled the victim.—Chicago News. L ate 2 =e No Wonder He Couldn’. 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