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COMIC PAGE FRIDAY, APRIL 9. 19 “RD =~ |. KATINKA THE NEW PLAYS ||Same GSS..)| eee , THEIR FUR NECK PIECE ai . AND, LEFT (TON Three Showers ir Me 6 Only Mildly Refreshing By CHARLES DARNTON © RELIEF from the dry epell is offered by “Three Showers,” for in 1" mite of a sprinkling of music the comedy at the Harris Theatre might " be taken as a prohibition joke. | » "Tl Have My Way” sings a thirsty old Southerner, but he doesn’t have : 2 of the sort. To save him from possible suspicion of maintaining » Estin on the premises his obliging daughter draws a pistol and shoots a film ta the hand of the designing villain from Washington, thus destroying evidence that might be used against the innocent Colonel. This ingenu- plot is the work of William Cary Duncan. The songs by Creamer and are of the familiar variety. | - 2 Anna Wheaton does the shooting and a great deal of the singing and f ‘ Z not to mention a lot of talking. She works very hard—too hard, in P is, > Z c a lomboy who capers about in riding breeches, climbs a ladder and de down a rope in the togs of a farmerette, and then plumps herself into rrow, all the time grinning delightedly. But her chief charm is There Are So Find a Bearcat! ‘tm her dancing. . “The Better ‘Ole” with this musical production Mr. and|| { ie ‘Cobera have not provided an imposing cast of principals. A colored You seem To ae Lissen Bit, T Have MARY, You AND WELE, UNCLE Has & AA ANIMAGR Let, onicute Te.D 4 MAN adds to entertainment, and though “He Raised Everybody's SPENDING More A NEW STeNocraPHer! ONCLE ARE NEW KIND oF ANIMAL 5 Sits WAS) A Beagcar | Katio’s” is a Dt sttcoover tt hae both ‘an asnusing and a timely Sine ar Yur Te LATE GeTrine| | WORKIN’ THERE any ca abe " Tre charming .S he ber w cu in to pe a -~ G _ ia: that, the play takes (ts name from an old saying that a wish ma |, OFFICE LATELY AVE “TS Home FRom ; He HAs To s, g 4 howwaPanuzer ® ‘& day of three showers is sure to come true. , ——~-stm 's —4 Tie, Orrice How Tite es | he many friends of the Coburns are sure to join them’ in the wish ANIMAL How ‘TS Do “Three Showers” will lay the dust in the box-office, Yet it must be — THNes —. that their April offering is only mildly refreshing. 4 About Plays and Players , By BIDE DUDLEY L. PRLANGER is in receipt of word from Charles BE. Ford Attention, Limerickers! Ng amc H. A. Henkel of Baiti- that the Maryland Legislature| It's as we expected. In our race passed. a bill which allows |for the Presidency on the Limerick to perform in the theatres | ticket we're going to encounter a lot the State, provided, first, that ot soreheads, Jealousy is appearing he have been permitted in other | but it shall not hinder ys, Limericks . © Btatés, and, further, that permission /and Liberty shall win We intend to HES DOWN CELLAR, > hice AND pHi agert i ) @tained from the Chief of the|be as fearless a President as was i Ai eatery ba Mal 1 GO DOWN IN: HISTORY — X Hope HE Bureau of Labor Statistics. |Patrick Henry, to say nothing of Hie woeock} “9 - . ‘ Had'NT Gane’ Maryland law which forbid the| William Jennings. Bryan, which is ". of children on the stage |probably the best course to pursue. ‘Wnusually drastic and prevented |Our first complaint comes from G. Me tion of many good plays | Hopper and, while we are not sure s t Bettimare med “other <Maryland {26.0.7 ¢.H1 Oot his first name is Grass. o~S — e © “SWITCHING 'EM ABouUT. where they, bait] three penitentiaries 's ta @ Name,” now at Max- | 2d a county jal; also that you came t jo Elliott's Theatre, will be trans- [Porn iar 2 (ne nighttime, What Monday, April 19, to the| We will admit we came from Leav~ Lionel Barrymore, in “The |enworth, but it wasn't under a cloud, of the Law,” will take up |jt was under a freight car. And now at the Elliott. Barney Ber-|have a look at Cope Townsend's roar. in “His Honor, Abe Potash, “Dear Sir—I attended a meeting of “ on tour after next week at|Limerickers favoring you for Presi- ; Tyne. dent last night and somebody got my CARELESS ANGELS. ‘ Srempeat.,, Wr at are you gaing to do Our advice to Mr, Townsend is to watch the Dudiey-for-President pa- i, os ei of me of earl paren ae this month. came near hav! & relapse, 9 coat will probably come by. Ms first day back he was standing Campaign Manager’ Nutt | the wings watching the “Hansel that the baseball team at Grete)” performance and sud- graph's Brooklyn studie has pledge: anly, when ten beautiful ap- the receipts from its first game to ‘ d, he was seen to r. Re- the Dudley Presidential Fund. We'll Now BuB , fLL GIVE DiareS OUR ve quickly he sai accept the cash but it must not be You A PENNY FOR Tr ONE — chance for me to recover my more than $10,000, ‘There's a limit to o' PLIES nas) alth back here! Three of those thie thing of letting people give us every 5 ; ) WA Tt ny are wearing wrist watches. money. it HE LANDS im going home. Now, to-day’s puzzle poem, dear . by hokey, rent! Lumnerickare, refers te @ little antmal hee 1 jorns, not at all like the horns FERGUSON'S MEMOIRS. in a band. Find the missing word ', J. Werguson, appearing in Abra- | 4nd rush it in with $200 and cheese Levy's “Little Whopper,” now omelette and you win, Here's the| the Brookiya, je writing trick rhyme: | under the title of/A handsome young fell | y-Five Years on | Broadway.” a SRO ty ht dal ‘ on is several years past 4 | score and ten, Bent over to tie up his boat. He got a strange shove, Marshai Neilan's That he didn’t quite love, films, ran his tour-| Jt came from the head of a ——, GOSSIP. name?” the cop de-| David Bennett is producing the num- Pe bers in “Betty Be Good,” ; What's yer name?" eked the| Kagete'in The Wontar wes hee h aske us by J fngeoat of the driver of the ivver, | Sroka into the movies oe ee farteberger! } Jean Moore, who has been under. ithe cop tumed to O'Malley. “How | studying Pesky Wood in. “Buddies: TLL DROP INTO “TH CLUB AND @ divil did yez come to let that| will play the role on tour next fall, |. \ y . ~They' pier, back right into yer car?” he| Charles Dillingham will ohango the || ASK TH GANGS ADVICE ! “Hey VE name of “The New Dictator’ to "The || ALL GOT. CARS AN’ (LL SEE - RIS HAS SOME PLANS, _ |“!!! rom Home" next Monday. petites: ny toot HEY FELLANs! 1 CAN'T eer aston" woe! | MAKE UP MY MIND WHAT THa's “TH'CAR FOR YA- 1 iN CAR T'GET ! WHat D'YOU MINE'S GONE 9000 I'VE HAD “Two ee cop | “EXPERTS” “THINK (S mM D--- OF 'EM AN t Largan a oe,tANs. ils Renarom gre aut ga PA WHAT “TW MALoRTTY ADVISE Me] | CTT Buy = “waReeR AL | Re ae r al tion to cast of “The head.” E. Peron , YOUR TRO! We . Mate, Amone foe pica af | MGRe atic’ eee AE vo yay | Teron Te Neen wikt GF OVER! ee hapa DONT LET ' ees ae | KID YOU JOE! their silk hose in wholesale lots here- after, Why not chip in and engage a silk worm? : and | Gene Buck is to have an Italian villa the Arnaut! at Great Neck with illuminated key- will be featured. Mr. Mor-| holes. a cellar and everything. also, t put William and! ‘Three companies appearing in Hordon Dooley in a revue, Harry) “preakfast in Bed” will be sent on will tour America again next] tour next season by A. H. Woods, uhder Mr, Morris's manage- | yor." ; * ind tere, may bea William Florence Moore 18 playing this farce at ip Theatre in New York before} ‘sixty members of the Loni ; » Long Islund burre are on the dog ugain next! pros Association will attend Monday night's performance at the Hippodrome. ALL OLD, SAYS BILL And after the show, hod ding it all, they're going to explore Broadway Kirk Oviatt, the small son) 4’ portrait of Mrs. Norman 8. Rowe, m Oviatt, of the Comstock &| wife of the author of “Mrs, Jimmie ” ; ) 4 = “tN MA i has a conaplaint to make! Thompso at the Princess, w!'! be X. A ket exhibited at the Babcock galleries this summer, It is by Arthur R. Friel. | land ire. George V, Hobart has been selected = “They're ail old ones,” he says. “Sou | to collaborate with Harry Hershfiel! in | ogre A CHANGE iW YOUR || WELL/DOCTORS GUESS 1 HrION MY BUSINESS! WHAT DIRECTIONS? “HMEVER LET THE plight to be ashamed of yourselt for| making “Able the Agent” a musical PROTIER GINCE WHS ~YOW) SEE, MISS Lau, WHAT DIRECTIONS 22 BOTTLE SE UNCORKED" at them,” how for Samuel Blair, di "ah TAR) = But ya Mare ivta:red thematier to our! Wiliam G mew, Stage Director MORMING— HE'S TRE TWAT SATE, HAS a @ANO IT NEVER Have! plaint Dipartment with the sug-| at the Capitol, Las reaumed his duties PICTURE OF HEALTH FAM ANY WARM BS PLAIN LASELS ff —————____—___, on that we be indicted. fter puttt n attack of acute in- f. MIND ‘ ball, digestion down for the count, eo . OU “THOUGHT ROW oo eee aad —_ “NIGHT LODGING” AGAIN. — Arthur Hopkins has .| A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Hall % production of y A Chinaman with a pigtail appeared dging” in the njon the streets of Wellsville Tuesday eaday night n and three women fainted, Bay recently for a s Of mpovial | - Malinees. FOOLISHMENT. The icing they put on a eake | Je really a pretty big fake, I i DS WHY NOT KEEP IT IN? Si “FNorudora,” at ihe Cen . pee . Riedtre, Caated aseal bs a chrenot, For I have been told , bits John Murray on the bh The icing’s not cold, anal tmes and each hit is accom) And yet it will make a tooth ache neon the man who makes the 4 ise forgot about it at one point an| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. | a minute late with| “What's the difference between a| When it came, Mr. ifassell| pigeon with one wing and a p e0n | * r ele pin he es coul sound trav: wiy in wens! I never id a “& difference oa a pinion.” oS