The evening world. Newspaper, November 18, 1920, Page 36

COMic PAG e ) 3 THURSDAY, NOVEMEER 18. [£50 if - = k K ATINKA Ae oc ke THE NEW PLAYS TEARD You WEE RED SE ca, Wore ve) wuz JUST We | a FELLOW you WERE LooKING FoR! AREN'T THE ONLY THINGS 5 | HE Keeps! SENT My BEAU FERDIE Yes, AN YOUGHTA) Buy, e's AN ) Smee See Wuere I'M Expert r DOWN To YER'PLACE ! Book Kec PER '! “Jimmie” Gives = Frances White a Lift. rrr By CHARLES DARNTON T seemed a bit incongruous that Little Frances White should open the big, new and tastefully decorated Apotio Theatre last night, with Broadway pouring into Forty-second Street to celebrate the occasion. / But the house did not fall about ber ears, though her hair was slicked back theatre is no noveity to New York, and a new star in musical largely a matter of capital letters. The real novelty of last experiment was an engagingly awkward dancer, Rita Owin, who 4 of with the audience by taking steps so extraordinary that she the house with her. Gawky beyond words, this thoroughly original kept her feet so well there was no doubting herskill. Moreover, her simple to the degree of serene stupidity, suggested a mask worn by ( had (so We 1s—h \so He 1S “—]) Probably Ferdie Found the Office Bottle! J The Literary Indigestion WISE CRACKS To SPRING ON THE Boys Him - You CAN ADDRESS YouR | |, \LETTERS To THE | ||DON'T THINK SLEEPING ON A Pook COUNTY SAIL" 5 |/TABLE 1S COMFORTABLE ‘CAUSE IT HAS di ee lL) DON'T THINK A COP’ IS SMALL ‘CAUSE HE CAN SLEEP ON A ‘BEAT’ DON'T THINK A LAWYER'S CELLER 1S ~_||FULL OF BOOZE ‘CAUSE HE HAS ALOT || OF ‘CASES’ (ron mies ew) DONT THINK A SURGEON COULD HOLD A CENTRALS” SOB CAUSE HES AN OPERATOR (From DULY DONT THINK FOOTBALL IS PLAYED IN A HURRY ‘CAUSE THERE'S A LoT oF "RUSHING (Faor Hers C Bers Hien) Ken Kline. 4 it Severn in “The Greenwich Village Follies." Here was an inimit- Dit of work, and !t might have bean repeated with equal effect if Miss | had been kept in gingham as a waitress. But she wore the finery “of the Cpielgee dancer in her later appearances and gave herself away = it she is too tall to be graceful i Taking the short end of !t, Miss Wihite was given a lift to stardom by| WEEE.» THATS WHAT u nie "cut to her measure by Otto Harbach, Frank Mandel and Oscar | PDONE:Y WHATTA Y'THINK (T'LL Hammerstein 24, with more care than humor, and enlivened by the some-| a familiar tunes of Herbert Stothart. Not at all shy.(Miss White was a! GEE WHIZZ! Q FELLAH OFFERED RDAY: FOR ¢ 100d THEN Y' BETTER GET HIM T'DO IT |:1'b0 tT YesTe i f Wh’ OTHER! ge0d gamin in a cabaret, with patches here and there, and she danced! like a good fellow and afterward charmingly in a quaint costume. | singing ‘had {ts drawbacks in sentimental moments, but at other times ade a colloquial appeal. She played the role of a long-lost daughter in| matter-of-fact way, while Ben Welch got along very well a8 an amus- | §EEE ola Hedrew until he took himseit seriously, He may have imagined | Miimeelt te be another Warfield—but he wasn't. Harry Delf danced amus- a le a self-satisfied vaudeville performer, and comparatively unat- “Jimmie” is entertaining, but by no means dazzling. omg Liman, = chorus girls sang lustily. ' Plays and Players BIDE DUDLEY first of six theatres which DON'T You KNOW? | ¢ Pa | the Messrs. Shubert are erect- ‘ ing on 48th and 49th Streets, f Who winds the watch on the Rhine? Did Richmond fall or wag it of Broadway, will be opened in It will be called The Am- » It is being built at Nos. | tripped? PBIB t0 225 West 49th Street, and will] naming ferent, American university 1 @ seating capacity of 1,200. The} In what year did William Fox in- two new ones which the Messrs. rie _ putin nis rota ates ‘will open are under way on 2; ic susp! ly. Names for these have|a descendant of tho cherry tree been chosen, Washington didn't chop down? What is the Christian name of Pull- “meet THE wire.” man who invented tho berth of & the Wife,” a comedy of| How long 1s the average monkey's life, will be presented by| tll, and why is he the average Miner & Roniberg, under the direc-|OPKCY? of Max Figman, at the Plainfield Plainfleld, N. J., on Nov. 22. the cast are Will Deming, Beth |, Marie L. Day, Harry Lillford, Luckett, Lillian Kemble, Wharies Mackay, Frank Allworth and a Hamil. This firm will put the ew Pat Rooney-Marion Bent musical “plece, “Oh, Pat!" into rehearsal to- | WHAT LITTLE MARY.“RuN DowN AND ENTERTAIN AUNT SARAH WHILE I Ger DRESSED MARY SEE & AUNT Saran?’ Im 4 Monkey ¢ dancer, You and I were good friends. Now, do you remember me?” “Well, Kitty Miller-—how are you?” came from the astonished Miss Mulle. HE SQUELCHED GREGORY. John M. Gregory, Wall Street broker, admits he was once a show- man, Some years ago he took a troupe South and, on reaching a small town in Georgia, found the constable on the depot platform. “Pardon me," said Mr. Gregory, vill I find the town hall?" * grunted the constable. “This town’s up to date, Woe got a opry here.” DON’T MISS THIS ONE. Jack Kaufman, who intends to watch this column with intense inter- est until one of his poems appears here, has ‘sent us the following gem: There was a young person named 4 BACON TO SPEAK. Frank. Bacon. has been invited to @ tho. principal address at the ual celebration of Founders’ Night the Players’ Club on New Year's He will deliver the talk after ing in “Lightnin'” the 1000th =) ~~ - I BAY To STAY HOME. » SHE INCIGTO ON GOIN’ 2 Ey To A SHOW—IM TIRED OF HER BOSsIN’ =1F. KD BLACK WAS BLACK xe AY TWAS RED! RULE ME - @oFT FATHEADS Nogiree! — Oi y __A& BIG FILM DEAL. Witty, Nee ee eee cmt pig, | Whose actions were whut you'd call 6) Aasoc onal Pic- and Joseph M. Schenck whereby silly. He went to a ball Dressed* in little at all Pretending to represent Chili Talinadge sisters, Norma and} nce, will make films for dis-| ution by the First \National for years after their present con- tt expires. It is sald the deal in- $20,000,000. 1DA AND KITTY MEET. Ida Mulle, who plays the -Chinese in “Mecca,” was ready to g0 the stage yesterday afternoon @ new wardrobe woman touched F on the arm. n't you remember GOSSIP. Virginia Shelby has joined Half Moon” &t the Liberty Morris Gest has’ gone to Chicago. He will return via St. Louis. Leonard Bergman, Treasurer at the New Amsterdam, received an order yesterday for two seats to “Hootchy- Koo." J. M. Kerrigan, Stanley Howlett and Manuel A. Alexander have been engaged for “Rollo's Wild Oat." “The me, Miss “TONY DIFFERENCE ts — ONE SOAKS Y'HARDER STHAN KNOW —IM A MAN WCTH AN’ \ IRON WILL / Looks Like They'll Put the ‘‘Bee’’ Over You, Joe! re ee CANT Do (T= \ THREE BIG JOB CAME IN TDAYY Ly SAY — “THAT JOB Y'FIGURED ON . YESTERDAY ~~ 1-WANT YOU re GET RIGHT AT-IV! -— Why Not Wrestle With Temptation, Mary? 9 : 1 |T MADE & Noise Like f& Monkey AND I sté0p ON MY HEAD AND — | IT wonpeR wHar I pOETTER Do NexT? | B Mom -o. Mom Ive Been J B ENTERTAINING | jas SARAH. The entire “Afgar” company and a brass band bid Charles Cochran bum voyage yesterday as he boarded tho Adriatic. Mary Mitchell, soprano, and Rich- ard Bold, tenor, have been engaged to ging at the Strand next week. 4 fulle?” asked the woman. "3 actress had to admit she did nore . WEY DION'T MEAN TO BE IM SURE — | "Thirty-one years ago, at the Acad- MR. WINDE! of Music, you were the star of cap “ French ra company will la,’ said the woman, “I| The pany only appear at the Belmont Sunday Kitty Miller, the principal) nights. ‘This will not interfere with the Coburn engagement Tyrone Power, tragedian, has signed up with W. K, Ziegfeld to appear in filma, The Bohemians, Inc., yesterday ap- pointed Albert Deano manager of that concern’s iridescent department Jules Jordan ha: n engaged to appear as | ion in “Wel- ralia. He sails t & What is the part of the body be. the neck and the abdomen, en- by the ribs, called? D 2. What is a lyric poem lamenting dead cailed? | # Which of the Disciples was ab-| t when Christ first appeared be re them? 4. 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