The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1920, Page 32

COMIC PAGE FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1920 About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY KATINKA, SERVE MY BF Eves ARE BLvVE OR TUL BOuNce You ON YER AND CLEAR — 3 POETIC ATMOSPHERE ! NTICIPATING & large gather- ing of male escorts for the horus girls of “Florodora” at Century nightly, the manage- has laid down some “Johnnie 4 which will be enforced with ald of several policemen. They ] AB Johnnies must wait across the ma the stage door. fohnnie wili be permitted to C. 0. D. flowers to a girl. uch as whistling and “Ob, 1” will not be tolerated. on Beveyee | will be permitted J jes are waiting. use of rough expressions, like 1" and “Oh, Devil!” will not effort must be made to borrow from the policemen on duty. @ase of rain Johnnies must re- from pushing each other into Johnnie who disobeys these will be escorted around the cor- by a policeman, who will talk to in @ mean to f voice, NUTT’S DOPE. | Jeff Nutt, our special correspon- sende us the following commu- from Albany: Dud—I and the wife are up in Albany waiting for the 30- to oust W. H. Anderson and Prohibition through. I saw in the te@@ay that the Limerickers te run you for President. The ways t's fine and sugevsts mame me for the job of Sec- of Statehood, or whatever It by the Way, vic used to be a r, go if you neet amybocy hammer the keys at the White don’t forget her. Thon, again, old man is a protty fair farmer, you might make him Secretary of ture. If you could you'd save @ lot of dough, as the. old. bay ‘de there on the touch. By the 1 gee that the Limerickers are you $200 each. Say, can't gtart a contest for me? Some of guys cani write rhymes, bul Bure can write “hocks. The wife called out to me: “Give my love old bonehead.” She really ‘Well, there's a lot of excite- but can learn nothing.—Jeff. \ SCORE ONE FOR TEXAS. ‘Through the medium of The Bill- mama ws lcarn that Bay City, Tex. " i the home of a young woman who wri real song hits. Her@name is Lia Secligson Whitaker and -she Z hes her songs, too. One of is called, “1 Think I'd Rather yn Old Maid,” and, just to show Miss Whitaker knows the song A to Z, we're going to chorus. Here it is: I'd rather be an old maid, ‘When wife is home er-cooking Hubdby's out er-lookirg. On the pretty girls he makes a raid. I think I don’t want no man, They worry you ail they can. When wifey is home er-sewing Bome woman's got him going, 861 think I'd rather be an old maid. AN APRIL FOOL JOKE. Warly this week Charles Difling- adviged R. H. Burnside, then, in tic City, to return to New York y and gee a “young per- * ‘experiment with some new on the Hippodrome stage dur- the morning. ‘ i . Dillingham. might look him over, Maybe something you could use next esterday Mr. Burnside arrived at rf Hip and took a seat in the rear the orchestra. Pretty soon Fred Btone appeared on the stage and be- Practising some tricks he intends use in his next show. Mr, Burn- went to a telephone and called . Dillingham, “Say.” he said, “Ered Stone is on the stage “over here.” replied Mr. Dillingham, | Attention, Limerickers! | A letter from Frances H. of the Stock Exchange takes us to task for making our limericks so easy of solu- tion, Says Frances: “Why do you make them eo simple? Any child woukl be alle to answer them without any diffoulty. If I'm going to give you $200 for my answer I Would like to feel 1 am giving it for something worth while. There is no fun in giving money away for such little effort.” ‘Then Frances sends us a completed limerick with “hula hula” as the puzzle finish. Of course she's all wrong. The completed rhyme should read: ' He sang a new gong called “Waloola,” And also that one, “Boola Boola,” While Mary Ann Bird, Who could hear every word, With grace danced the new Sailor's Hornpipe, To-day’s puzzle rhyme, LAmerickers, should end with a word that means something we'all have perched on the top of the spine. Solve it if you can, send us the $200 and bottle of horse- radish and you win. Here it is: “Oh, shoot me,” the prisoner said. “I have a desire to be dead.” The Captain just smiled, Which made the man wild, You see, he was off in his ———, “have you noticed what day thi is?” “The same to you and many of them!" growled Mr. Burnside And bing went the receiver, GOSSIP. , A. I. du P. Coleman has translated “Les Americains Chez Nous” for Leo Ditrichstein. While_"The Passion Flower" is playing I California next fall it will be filmed. An Easter ballet will be introduced in “Happy Days” at the Hippodrome Monday afternoon. Forty weeks of the best city time have been booked for “The Little Whopper” next season. Gordon Johnston of “Mrs. Jimmie Thompson” is the author of much vorso. Io admits it. Because of its being Good Friday the Playhouse will be closed to-night. There will be a matinee of “The Won- derful Thing” Monday, Tom Lewis will be seen in a new act at the Green Room show at the Astor Theatre Sunday evening. Sophie Tucker gave a silver cup in an exhibition one-step contest ut the Terrace Garden Dance Palace the other night. She awarded it to Grace L. Mulrooney and Arthur Gothe. F. Ziegfeld jr. believes that Mme. Spinelli, the French dancer on the New Amsterdam Roof, has the finest pair of shoulders in the world. She declines to use them in the shimmy. Bert Levy, cartoonist, wrote on his screen at the Hippodrome last night: “Is Nicky Arnstein in the house?” A man yelled “Yes,” but he proved to be an impostor,seeking fame. The Theatre Guild anneunces the appointment of Theresa Helburn as Executive Director of the organiza- tion, Lee Simonson will be scenic director. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. ‘The day Marjorie Daw, ‘film star, goted as bridesmaid for Mary Pick- ford when she married Douglas Fair- banks, she had just finished a picture called’ “Don't Ever Matry.” ’ FOOLISHMENT. “Oh, marry me!” the maiden said, “And you will never rue it.” The youth replied: “My love is dead, 1 will not never do it.” FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. mmy, how did you manage to your boys #o well?” | raised ‘em wif a barrel stave, |- an’ Ah raised ‘em frequent.” AND THEY. “PickLeD MY “BONES IN AL- KEy- HALL Hic! WONDERFUL BUN — No HANG-OVER FROM SATURN. M00-0-o8 M90 -0-o! 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