The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1920, Page 29

é THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1920 Can’t Win Audiences In Comedy or Tragedy? + Teveafed such a preatth of baby talent as this season. ‘The kidtttee have scored heavity in Plays ranging through tragedy aud | comety down to merry, merry musical pieces. As Longfellow wouk re- view it, we have “grave Elfin and laughing Lilian and Miriam with raven hair.” Tiny Miriam Batista “stopped the show” on the opening night of the “Flor- odora” revival at the Cen- tury, Appearing tn a baby soxtet, a perfect miniature of the famous original, she vamped Junior Tiernan, her kiddie Jobn, exhibiting marvellous sense of bur- lJesque in| mimicking the sophistionted wiles of a regiar chorus flupper Miriam awoke the next morning to find herself “made.” “1 think my notices are very good,” she yawned to her mamma. “What do you want to be when vou grow up?” Miri- om was asked, “L don't know,” fully replied. “I he bash- start us a movic actress, opera artiste, dancer, a light comedy aciress, a dramatic actress and (almost out of Ureath) then some day I'll do some- thing worth while.” Miriam's uncle is Mat- thew Batistta, well known Shakespearian actor of Home and, ™other donating a taste for Iter: vaples, she coi cting | (reand creative work. Naples, and she comes from acting ildin autoniahea er taiher with an stock. All her “etuge business” in original literary effort when @he Florodora is of ther own invention | climbed on to his knees recently and And the stage mumxor ts giving her Poured tho following love ditty tq leeway in devising new tricks go work |! x “You love me, and I love you on Junior Tiernan that will add to his And welll be happy tometer boyish agony and embarrassment. | In all kinds of weather.” eitin inn, who plays Mary in “Bé-|' Modern lyric writers can hardly yond the Horizon,” the tragedy at the equal this. L.iltle Theatre, is probably the young- Lillian Roth has scored a great suc- cess at the Knickerbocker Theatre est child on the stage to-day. She is with her natural and sincere perform. ee Shi vings, 1 act. On the stage she has a whole shopfui of toys to play with—mechan- icun windmills, airplanes and flying xulls brought from the original Cape Cod toy Ss written, Surrounded by so many delightful “props” any child actress would call Bubbie a “fat” part. Producer Henry W, Savage declared on reading the manuscript: “The part of Babbie is too long for any human child to learn.” However, little Lillian mastered the speeches and has never part ever writt Lillian has bee j years on the stage two und has playe 8 important as her present role oid, also an actress, this season in “The Magic Melody, | teacher. emergency, reading an hour's home work every day. ressing coom full of dolls and toys, cut them out between scen: sold and! ‘Phat Lillian is a “find London producer: Sh nes,” the on only four and a half yea cannot read and write yet. the fact that whe ot the rights Sttl Pifin not only learned her own a eae hearsal, but the lines of every one else Lillian. during the firat week and with great! ‘That youthful abiltty abounds here- | difficulty she was restrained from coaching the grown-ups in the cast. | Elfin comes by her talents natural. | y her father, Hugh Finn, who staged “Beyond the Horizon,” contributing | interpretative art and Goran, 1908, Wy, The Pre Fupianing Ca | (ae Hew 'rorkRveving Word 1. Who composed tho opera “The! 4 Huguenots"? & Ip what poem is the line bexine \ n the spring a young inan's! &u.? 3. In what did the Old Woman sad} her children live? i, What is the handle of a scyt coiled? >. On what An Mun for the Agi What city of Monuments? 7. Who wrote “Paredise Lost"? + 8 In what city was the first printing press set up? 9. Who ranks second among the ten- nis players of this countr 10, What place mentio' in the Bible ts famous for its cedar trees? | 11. Who invented the motion picture] machine? 12, What famous Greek ' Poetess was Wikitan koown as the tenth mu: | Royo ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S sae eran QUESTIONS. about wos abun ’ 1. Osear Wilde; r ing Worla 4 jean; 5, 6: 8, bromide of silver; 9 piccolo; 10, Tasmania; 11, Napoleon; muteria 12, Boot . ' obweuri swans; 4, Pel Alas! That Red Nose fi Once “Every One at a Banquet Head Yable Had a on Him” —To-Day There’s “Water, Water E: and Not a Thought to Think”—Speakers Now Plenty of Wind but No Breath. By Neal R. O'Hara, Coupright, 1990, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bvening World |" OHIBITION surprised a lot of from the oldtime prettier In guys, but it left all the ban-/ ted nose era a speaker might Quets speechless. The Antis simply | {lat across the table, but he | ¥reeked the post-prandials, The) [ll flat with his auditors. jtrouble with dinners now is that/ ‘there's too much food and too little|table was so called , food for thougbt. When the asbestos /every member had a bead om him. i curtain rolled down on firewater,|The toastmaster now is as @ty a& | after-dinner speaking was so far af|toast and the wise crackers @ré | tor fT) never catch upt A banquet|iemon and soda crackers gow. A” to-day it is/year ago a cylinder of grog iv A rousing taik-fest enable a guy to talk like | Would start with cocktails and finish fon the phonograph. To-day when @ Who Says Kiddie Actors | Can You Beat It! ARE You STILL | WAITING FOR sy /- THAT PHONE CALL D on Ree at By Maurice Ketten But | HATE To GET OUT OF A HoT BATH 76 Go TS THE PHone \ | HAVE TO ITAL 16 HER MYSELF wm) WATCH THE PHONe \ CALL You ( GO AND TAKE YOUR BATH HV Lt. TAWE THE ( MESSACZE ‘weed te be mostly bun mostly bugque. TLL TAKE MINE | SHE Saip | SHE'D CALL YOu AT SEVEN { AND IT'S NINE with bromg seltzer, Now it starts with soup and ends in silence, wine has also be come a dinner without woman and It's a dinner without an ex») diasner without caused a lot of talk, but not at the banquet table. Many a silver-tongued orator bas tarnished from drinking too much grape julee. few years ago there were two kinds of speakers—guys like W. J. Bryan, that would get themselves wound up, and the other guys that could speak only when they got themselves But Bryan is an orator— not an after-dinner speaker. one thing that Bill hasn't gone after yet—-a dinner. The dinners where a cake of ice was served for dessert and went to every guy's head are now a thing With a locker of Scoteh under his boiled shirt, a guy could then talk like he bad an option on the English language, hibe now have a mortgage on his ‘What few speeches are now being made are illuminating Instead of illuminated! f When a learned bird now gets up to speak he can have his audience breathless—-which was out of the question when booze flowed freely. The wineless speakers they 1 day are boring enough to tap a keg that organ fon, \SHE \Won'T ) CALL YOu NOW IT'S ( So LATE JF SHE DoESN'T CALL ME By TEN PLL TARE Ay SArHe \IT NEVER i FAILS ance of Babbie in the Cape Cod play, ilfan is eight years old and the envy of ull the kiddies that see her But the Pro- shop around which the play missed a syllable of the longest child's five parts, but ’ r younger sister, Anna, six years A Man’s stakes. By Roy L. McCardell The day is past when the THE BANQUET TOASTMASTER NOW I$ AS DRY AS TOAST. parched throat is called on to speak, [there's water, water everywhere and |not a thought to think! rummies are dummies pew. oiled. The troub! sive way only from standing too jong. Your 1920 talker has plenty of wind but no breath! When banqueteering waa done with wine, many were called hut few were flivvers, Qnly the names of those well olled came after the phrase, “We have with us to-night.” John Barleycorn in these days wrete more speeches than J. P, Morgen wrote checks, But now the speeches and speakers are dry, like the ban- quets and venaeetethaahee Oe have simply thrown a. the entire works. my remarks and alcoholic appladse-bawe passed, and with them the after-dinner sing- ers. For it tak of music to encourage 4 thrushes now, Tho guy that sang whiskey tenor when’ the Ble was Bass is only a echo will come oalk be tthe ‘tenor and the whiskey won't): « 19200, by The Press Publishing Co, New York Evening Work). = By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 1920. by The Press Publishing Co. (‘The New York Kvening World.) NCE upon a time there was a man in business, days he had worked very hard and was successful. By Betty Vincent | Both little girls were born in Boston, | where their mother was once a school It was not long before he had an HEY'RE in here, I think," re- It meant a great marked Mrs, Jarr, who was fussing at the door of the closet in her bedroom, which had “It's the best J can do," she was saying as though to herself. “the best I can do—ties!" “You can wear some of those mother sent me on my virthda marked Mr, Jarr. wear men's neckties this Will that be the sty ‘What are you talking about? 1820, by ‘The Prem Publishing ©, (Pho New York Evening World.) NXIOUS Adele has quite a prob- lam which she wishes solved. “{ have followed your advice |on Courtship and Marriage for some time," writes she, found it to my advantage. be very pleased if you would advise | me on the following: | “There is 4 certalp young man in munity for whom I care very much, and he at times seems to care has escorted me home theringe a few times and has often asked to see me home found it necessary to stuse, owing to other engagements. | he never dances with |me, although Tam gaid to be a good has talked with me at | :, but the minute begins he walks away. you advise me to treat a boy of thia idea—a good idea. Mother helped Lillian memorize her waving to the ooncern 1c lines and stands in the wings at performance in case of His business érew and he had So he took it to the boss, ployer looked it over very carefully meant considerable looked good to the | boss, and he told the young man to 60 whead—which he did. After working on the matter fo . Somehow it did to the professional children's says Lillian, “and I study spelling, French, joggerty, id long division, and | have working for him, He was a very | money exacting individ. ual and extremely and have always By A Pretty Girl. the reforming joy- kibers are starting a drive on the personal liberty of person- able young women, They are trying jto interfere with our divine right to! | be beautiful Down in West Virginia the manasge- ment of the Watson Hotel has pro-| decreed that eac mulgated a blue law which forbids, ned by the hotel to use| the “I go to school on roller simtes,” he axdds. “At the theatre I have a ‘Are women | considerable tim that | come out just as he had expected in his| Somewhere along the line of his ene | k establishment. Children send me paper dolis and [I Hes shown by from eoctul New York cast they | lines by heart the first day of re-! requested” ue ie long” mat they went to the bows and tald him He could not tell ex- bis mistake was, acknowledged his failure, Everything in his ©8-| however, looking at the money he on| had lost, wouldn't take any chance On any more mistakes, he feared the young man's energies | would lead him into more lowses, and discharged him. tles—iow shoes have been ou because high shoes were so dear suppose. I have to go downtown, and | I haven't a decent walking shoe, No- body is wearing any high boots now, its pumps—French pumps or French pumps | except my best ones, which I |tend to waar this weather horred was mistakes. n to forgive any one mak» ing a mistake, Goodness knows, the «irle emyt Giana wiles Not only this, little room for 4 knew just what he] bh imagine why this young and I haven't aps he feels a little hurt over the has asked to uke you al times and you have re ing to other engagements,” If you want him to dance with you, re | Becuring a positio ere Se aia dormer. poem Being « straightforw now applying | individual, he told his new emp is estublishinent particularly to bis king and be had given considerable study ew mistakes mad And quite right, | things on my back! | didn't know low shox As a yitl who frankly admits that her face is not clock, { wish to protest move to prevent any American girl | Visited the kitchen and said: “You know, Mary, we are all very excused on that plea, “Lam very muoh a young lady and about knowing that an im- | rovement could be made in the very | | thing the young man against any | att remarked Mre, Javr, d tried, gave Yer, 1 must admit £ ami not conver- | r modeg” ventured to ask her te sk you whether 1 should ‘pop’ stion to her or first go to her another experiment With this encouragement he went renewed interest, was determined to succeed this time, He was told to take his time and as- as attractive combination of nature and art nake-up question emphatically one which shi | elded by local option and not by prohibition imposed from | ung man had ambit en't the money {to work with eighteen and #9) one to buy them, 0 y the Whereupon cook's eyes widened, “Let ane help you open + would be far more conventional, parents of a young girl of el@hteen expect, to go | Then, if they quve you their consent, it will be far easier for | you to Dropone THE EVENING WORLD OULJA EDITOR ASKS| RR een | Where Do the Landlords Go From | IN a > QUIVA that has i! stuck fast,” said Mr ‘ But the door resisted his feeble efiorts. es, he wanted to make better than good. | ouoyed him up, and fo them frat with 4 hairpin, against the might and which naught can prevail. re's the key on the floor,” said Jarr, as his foot struck the cor- turning it over and nd night his mind was on To make w long fable w ed his efforts. | ‘The reformer who says a girl must we face-paint one thing about ciful in that atter unded ux in our tenderest 4, she does not rub it in. y on, “I'm in a dread?ul cess finally crow aye & man ger! disclosing the ke even better than both had hop it Is possible to d hae Jooked on the whiskey when it ia | yellow, but | defy any sleuth of sin} ure of spotting the girl who, QQ hus looked on the rouge when it is | 1 had # friend whose roses never out of a drug store—whe frankly admit I buy mine. she was ill and I deplored, to a man friend, the loss of her charming color d sapiently, was the real Jarre, “But L forgot it, you Bet ine so upset.” sums, and pr departure in that fusine it would be thing I have that's fit Lo wear is in the closet, Oh, dear! After much stooping and scratching in the dark rec she brought a low pair ight and regarded therm mildly, “what do you lock the doors for?" fe ho thieves in this house, thank you!” replied Mrs. Ja \"But you know y } have bo lock up ¢ Needlews to say, away beyond his expectations. this young man's former of what had happened he figuratively even | tore his hair. ‘Phe work of this yours tan untold lows to him, ‘had overlooked (he young man's mis are elghwwen | take und given him a further oppor with galters, they are so sh “wear my shoes and you ean course it never healthy red-like YOURS!” | bas as much wear any color she pleases on her face a# to wear any color she pleases Why is a cheek dyed through my things when tm out.” dollars a pair? “A suid Me futile, unless perhaps sbe essayod the skeleton in the tumily closet!” “of nat formerly languished in mistakes never “high prices |s ‘makes anybhing. — Why Interfere With Our Girls’ Divine Right to Be Beautiful? We Ask You Copyright, 1020, by The Prete Publishing Co (The New York Rveging World.) red by artifice more immorg) than a dress dyed red by artifice? It dress is innocent, why ia a nauwhty? Naughty or not, it's much nicer than a shiny nose, & weman's Kighth Deadly Bin! Supposing we girls started to re- form men's complexions, Supposing began by absolutely forbidding side-whiskers—- ! fupposing we man, no matter how sensitive his akin, should shave twice a day. Then we would carry matter a litte further and put @ paint and powder while on duty, With | penalty on that poll of fat which men the slogan, ‘Rouge and rice powder— | now and farever we mustaches, beards, horrid, ekly thi like to wear at the back of their eol~ lars, Maybe they wouldn't be a bit |more moral by the. time we got all the sextot material of the! through with them, but they would ne on strike for the priv- lloge of self-determination in the mat- | ter of complexions, be se much more decarative! planet satis Mary Know What It Meant. HI valued cook of a certain fam. tly has been in the same situ- ation for years and the other oon the mistress of the house fond af you, | hope you like wa i my silk petticoats.” and sho answered her mistress; ‘Oh, mum, how ever many have you been an’ gone an! a. dinner now ?”—Judge. All the Rum may have made most persons | tiglt, but it certainly loosened the jtongue, [t may have affected a guy’s both legs, but lots of sober speakers to-day have weaker knees than & stewed spellbinder ever stayed up A guy's knee jolgts never ereaked if his systema wea properly with dinner 3 Se wa es ¥ 1 thinking of giving you