The evening world. Newspaper, March 31, 1920, Page 28

Hons convey to a credulous world. one back to the old crook play for ‘Mhalf an eye can seo that “The Hole i be confessed that its creatures of t! Deep Purple,” are not altogether to who sent ber up the river Banapping of a child than a grandmu CSTE fm fear and trembling of him aids the , a6 the marvellous reporter, | Bok, give tone to the performance out of character. Charles Halton is _ William Gampeson gives a bit of his _@portender grotesquely ringed out in But “The Hole in the Wall” is ‘wogrests child's play. arn 2S Pare es By BIDE for them. He may call the te to build im Wem 44th he Little Theatre, the | i it get oy ‘trol of the Fitzgerald ; which imoludes the George . Theatre, he may give that playhouse the name of Cleo Mayfield. By that time Mr. Cohan will probably @ house of his own and he might ‘wish to have it bear his name. Mr, Tagen and Miss Mayfield, now appear- te in “Look Who's Here,” are under term contracts to Mr. Spiegel. CORT SIGNS MACK. John Cort has placed Willard Mack i America ever knew. The play, way, will be built along Irish WHITE RETURNS, George White, having closed the geason of his “Scandals of 1919," has frrived in New York and will take a “week's vacation before beginning re- hearsals for the next edition of his . ‘The book of “Scandals of is belng written by Andy Rice fn collaboration with Mr. White him- self; the lyrics will be by Arthur Jackson and the music by George Gerahwin, A NEW FULTON PLAY. ver Morosco has acceptri for juction next season a new play by Fulton, who wrote and acted t CASTS ENGAGED. \ Priestley Morrison will stage the Mark Swan farce, “Kiss Her Again,” Which Lea Herrick will produce. includes Herbert Yost, Gladys . Reginald Barlowe, Millicent , Pierre Le May and Lambert In the cast of “Three Live Ghosts,” new Isham comedy which Max will produce, will be Beryl + Charles McNaughton, Mary Bervoss, Frank Monroe, Cyril Chad- ‘Wick, Olive Reeves-Smith, Mercedes re, Henry Mortimer and Em- Shackleford. WYNN 18 A SAVER. “The high cost of stage costumes frightened Ed Wynn, when that wor- thy put on his “Carnival,” which pens Monday night at the New Am- gterdam Theatre. After he had or- @ered a supply of gowns for the girls he discovered that he was confronted with the necessity of spilling $18 a ir for shoes. Ed thought hard and Prany tound a way out. He made most of the girls Grecian la who Matural toe have its fling.” Gossip. Loretta Sheridan is n na of “My Golden Girl Bayes Theatre prima don at the tury Theatre's’ superintendent, Joined the cast of “Florodora “Not So Long Ago the Messrs. Shubert, w ment in Bi on April 1 B. H. Frazec matinee of famedy o Rudadigore seventy last night prs will play a wel rs, ar Hippodrome THE NEW PLAYS “The Hole in the Wall” Stuffed With Crooks RON Ej he hl BE Y a curious turn of the theatrical wheel, the silly season has been brought on a month or two eariier than usual by plays ingenuously concerned with spiritualism. This is the real message these contrap- It would be difficult to imagine a sillier melodrama than “The Hole in eo Wall,” at the Punch and Judy Theatre. mings obviously designed for the theatrical bargain counter. mo other reason than to make it seem attractive. @muusing, if nothing else. At the same time, what are we to make of a| Berajne who vouchsafes the surprising information that she has served a| term in Sing Sing? Her motive of revenge in seizing the grandson of the fact that a mother would necessarily suffer more anguigh over the ‘The innocent lady from Sing Sing who drops into the underworld to @ick up a dishonest penny gains little illusion by crystal gazing and an- gpd Messages received by wire, even when the spirit moves her to honestly without the wires that have been cut. A most remarkable @ewapaper reporter who hus the whole police department standing or sitting Martha Hodman is a lovely apparition as Madame Hysteria, or what- @ver she's called, but disappolutingly monotonous in her speech. bout Plays and Players . | of Cost.” trip around the stage in their bure + “T believe,” said Ed, “in letting the Nora Eleanor Little, daughter of the Cen- has extra dy Friends” at the hat musical has a baseball | hich practices on the stage of theatre, And it isn't cramped The author, Fred Jackson, has his material, and supplied new trim- Any one with in the Wall” is stuffed with crooks for For that matter, it must} |. he underworld, harking buck to “The) be condomned, for they happen to be} is also a bit unique, considering the other. There's no sense in the play. heroine in working out her salvation. John and Vernon Steele, as a fashionable with English accents that are quite! more convincing as Limpy Jim, and own peculiar humor to the part of a Oriental toms. @uch transparent melodrama that it DUDLEY “KATINKA Ts (7 TRE THAT KATINKA RHAS A BEAY, Dean & >) LITTLE MARY MIXUP THE BIG COMIC PAGE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 YES, SHE'S Wicd ABouT HIM AND If HE EVER. M PROPOSES WE'LL BE WITHOUT A any WE CAN'T IN “THIS WELL , S0oDBY, TILLIE ~ L, Twin Beown wit, carey / YOUR SATeHEL TS a Casati LITTLE FAMILY ANY CHANCES — 1 WANT You To FORBID HER To ALLOW HIM - 5 TAKE WwiITHt You BUT 1 COULDN HAVE THE HEART TO Bust up A LOVE MATCH STSP AND Pp ASK MY MA. KIN CoS THE TRAIN MMAYBC We couLn USE HIFA AS OUR CHAVEFEUR ! WHAT DOES HE Do FoR ——s A tIVING ? te os ) o= Heajea e. 4 TUE S Gone ‘f o-to—-%¢ | A tion, Limericke | At last the truth about our Limer- ick contest has come out. Luke Mc- Luke, @ very estimaile gentleman, writes us that he has discovered our reason for permitting the Limerickers to send us $200 each. “The reul purpose behind the enor- mous collections you are making from solvers of your Limerick puzzles,” he writes, “is to further your ambitions a8 @ Presidential candidate. You are & secret candidate for President, and 4s soon as your fund becomes greater than those of Leonard Wood, Gov. Lowden and others you will suddenly wpring your boom. Undoubtedly you have already orgunized the thoi of Limerickers wo admire you into & powerful political machine.” Mr. McLuke ts right. We have an ambition to be President. Our plat- form will be “Limericks for All Free Naturally we shall expect all Limerickers to work and vote for us, and in order to make it pleasant for them to do so we are going to permit each one to send us $20 for the campaign fund. Make your motto “Dudley or Bust" and be careful not to bust. ‘'To-day's puzsle rhyme, dear friends, ts somewhat nautical, but you may find it easy at that. With your re- plies please send the usual $200 check and a nice box of dried prunes. We're (awfully fond of prunes, Here's the rhyme: I know a young lady named Mary, Who chdked as she swallowed @ cherty; Then, giving a shiver, She ran to the river And crossed on a large, ugly — anes == ployee, has inherited a grove of olive trees in Spain and doesn't know what to do with the darned thing. SOME PRESS AGENT. When Sydney Wire, press agent of the Lerman-Robinson Shows, reached Fayetteville, Ark., recently, he was denied space in the newspapers. The show was to be there on Monday. Sunday it got in and Syd sought out the snake charmer, Bravely he'pes- tered one of the snakes and was bit- ten, Result—a column in the news- paper next morning and three days in the hospital, But ob, you should have seen the crowds that attended the show! 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