The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1920, Page 12

COlMHC PAGE SATURDAY, NOVENEFR 27, 1420 pe It’s Lucky He Didn't Try to Pick It! ~~ — LEE) WAIT LU 1 Git HOLD OF THAT 4” ¢ HEY! Gtt OFF }}|DOCHR UHo SaiD “MUD BATHS|] ME SHOULDER !! WUZ GOOD FoR RHEUMATISH Ht. ASPARAGUS AZ eg SEEDS LPLANTED LAST 5-2-4 SPRING ? WELL THEY'RE) (REALLY? SUST SPROUTING Z - (9 About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY | By Way of Diversion. 7} pirimainininpeslimiamnaserinscoanetinantiens “My husband's such a funny | man,” said Mrs, Ezra Skinner. “He's got a notion in his head that he’s agrowin'’ thinner, He'a started eatin’ breakfast foods; he's got the habit proper. But my! he's changed so often he's @ reg'lar dict-opper. He | gets me up at 6 o'clock to dish him out some Wheatlets. Next time he'll want his Grababite or Imitation Meatlets. And then, before the weck has passed, he'll get some Takahunka an’ nert he's buyin’ Cornacake or shred | ded Eatachunka, In jest a | month a dozen kinda Ive fig- | gered Bz has taken, I'd give the world to get him back to plain fried eggs an' bacon. I'm hopin’ that some day he'll quit SEE IT ? AN You KIDDED ME ALL SUMMER CAUSE THEY sf NEVER GREW! ad WIFE , Come HER: ==} Quick # + HE amalgamation of the interests ’ Ss, of Sam H. Harris, the Selwyns and Arthur Hopkins, which has een commented on from time to time, seems on the verge of becom- img fact. According to Archie) Selwyn it is planned to begin opera-) @ions in aMliation with each other on| Jan. 1. Offices will be established | ander one roof, he says, and all three wets of interests will be partners in all productions they make. Mr. Hop~ 4m kins, Edgar Selwyn and Sam Forrest | will €y all the staging and the pro- | i 5 4 t ht | @uctions will be presented, as far as, Possible, in theatres controlled by the Harris-Hopkins Selwyn combination. | If this amalgamation really comes! ‘about it will be the start of a new ooking concern. It will mean that fhe Harris-Hopkins-Selwyn interests ‘will have six theatres in Greater New ‘Tork, one in Boston, one in Cleveland, two in Chicago and later one or more fn Philadelphia anq Detroit. They ‘will control, also, a formidable array + of stars and New York successes! them health foods, as they atyle The New York houses will be the tem, for 4f he won't, they'll send «ale pny ipa os Me nae | me to a lunatic arylum.” Barris and the new Bandbox, being | ed erected by Sam H. Harris and Irving E Berlin. The Boston house is the Park a Square and the Cleveland house the Hann= In Chicago the Selwyns are * Dullding the Selwyn and the Chicago. | nm Napwond. Wilk thls bh ‘One of these will be managed by Sam | Nd 0} Mae ne se Haris who will relinquish his half | 2) amenire and: went out to find & Anterest in the Grant Operu Mouse to jittle hootch. He located a place he George M. Cohan, who controls half could got it and indulged freely, Then S1! Do YTHINK WE WANTA WAM ALL NIGHT FoR You? WE WERE Jus’ GONNA GIVE You UP FoR DEADS SHE'S BREATHING WELL, HE'S TEN MINUTES LATE. IRREGULARLY AGaiIN! ALREADY. IF HE AIN'T HERE IN FIWE MORE MINUTES WE'LL START “H'GAME WITHOUT HIM! SHE'S ONLY HITTING ON FIVE CYLINDERS Loe WHO, JOE — HAS Your WIFE Got HAY FEVER? the audience when McAuliffe a) peared on the stage. Dempsey went up and did a turn with the retired | champion. | HOW IT AFFECTED HIM. © the theatrical business artistically. SB property now, ‘The Seiwyns have a booking con-| A trect with the Shuberts, which has § qbout seven years more to run. Archie { Selwyn says the Shuberts have no! ; @tven him theatres, as he has re q@Wested, and be, therefore, considers _ Se contract null and void. Mr. Hop- te aerted by members of the Proposed new alliance that both the Klaw & Erlanger have Mr. Selwyn says Mr. Hop- ‘kins claims such practices bave hurt ‘Hoe has numerous plays he'd like to Present, but cannot do so because he ‘an get no theatres, ~The foundation of the theatrical ‘Dusiness ts theatres, With a start fnterests buve in the way of houses, their booking interests might develop | formidably. Selwyn says, however, that it is their idea not to | than to protect Sam H. Harris, Arthur j Hopkins and the Selwyns—at present. ‘ HELL DO HIS SHARE. Within the »ast three years Frank Mayo's negro valet has lost two ‘wives by death and now he has mar- vied a ihird. Reproached by the Universal star because of the fre- of bis matrimonial alliances, ; She darky replied: | “Well, Mistah Frank, ef de Lohd ‘wants ‘em Abi'll furnish ‘em.” pave REED TO SPEAK. United States Senator James A, Teed of Missouri has accepted an in- witation extended by William Faver- ‘ham to speak at the Mark Twain ises to be held at the Booth eatre Tuesday evening. The selec- of Senator Reed is appropriate, use Mark Twain was born in |day she sent Arthur Hammerstein a | took a chance. Two days of rebears- | and it now looks as though she bas) | bid the typewriter farewell forever. | each as the Horris-Hopkins-Selwyn | {08 ,suest of Mra Sara Timothy of he returned to the theatre and the doorman told bim It was the follow- | ing night. | ''39 SEGAL ENGAGED. | < ner and Romberg are to produce & musical plece called “Three Kisses” | in Springfield, Mass., on Jan. 4, Vi- vienne Segal will be the featured Photograph of herself and a phono-| graph record of her voice. The picture | looked good and the voice sounded promising. So Mr. Hammorstein ing fixed Miss Bodkin up all right| Once in a while Baltimore comes across—once in a while, Gossip, “Opportunity” will go on tour after) Jan. 1. James Crane is taking a rest. Lady Lillian Maxwell-Willshire of London has joined the cast of “Af- gar” at the Central. |, Alice Mann, who acted in the film, “Scrambled Wives," is a Thankagiv- Flatbush. Ann Irish has written a playlet called “When a Man's Too Good.” It is said Toth Wise will have the stellar role. Carroll MoComas will head the committee that will sell programmes at the Belleau Woods Post benefit at the Hip to-morrow afternoon. Moran and Welser and Orth and Cody have been added to the cast of the “Century Midnight Revue.” The last preliminary in the walts contest for the champio: of Greater New York will be held at Terrace Garden Dance Palace to- morrow afternoon. The finals are set for Tuesday night. “Sally,” the new Marilynn Miller- Leon Errol musical piece will be pro- duced by F. Zeigfeld jr. in Baltimore Monday night. Harry Langdon of “Fi.ilo, Lester” has been given a three-year contract by John Cort, , Another amateur dramatic club is the Beacon Literary Society, No, 812 Faille Street. Grace Valentine has been engaged to act in the film, “A Man's Home,” which Selznick will produce. Barbara’ Gillen, understudy for * v MY Mom To.d Me 6 Ger sr - COKFEE — THE “THAT “PooDLE” OF OURS “SU WORRY MORE ABOUT HIM | Igo BIG L DAWGONE “THAN You DO ME ee ITTLE FAMILY ———_. _— WOT! DYE MEAN fo Ge THAT, sop! niet PooR “FIFI TLL CALL HE POLICE STATION PBoUT BG OF | al i yg | * BULL-DoG “omits” KILLED YYouR tic e161 2 THE BiG BRUTE | Sort of ik member of the cast. He Y-me ° > ‘Kins bas @ contract that makes him| L He mam -© or was — & PouND OF TEA- BUT SH. Lad a Ys BRING: dt ar Sock all plays presented in the 3 SHE Tea x . Ne Home J IT was Plymouth, in Shubert theatres eise-| THE RISE OF FRANCES, SAYs I ALWAYs BRING Home a Ow ae TS Ger- THE were Tine soll \'T pineal where. This, it ts understood, only| ,A week ago Frances Bodkin was a THE WRONG Ting - So T wait i pI Bouvet Corree ee stenographer Baltimore. ow si -“ ‘ } = eC Gencerne ‘productions offered at the/i, in “Jimmie” at the Apollo. 01 THINK De TAKE & Pound Gee, a “Reward for a ‘Good Deed Well Done” / SMT" Woutd GET} SRE IF I GAVE / ( (4 \ HS DOG-ER- } ei : i . 3 al 4 oon ~— WHAT=, >\ | AS 3 neers = sy ee A — S TC bun HAD ——_ Nol A Nice NEW CoLLar ! ‘Missouri. “Ladies' Night," has played every PONT You "KiO" WELL! FOLKS , GUESS By ‘eaRuazy On THe. Jon, rea the dozen feminine roles in the ABOL Xv TWAT ” Gar Senay ‘8 ane STUFF !—an' TU GO GET tired world's lightweight champion, | Pened to Doyle and Dixon of “Hitehy 7 is appearing in vaudeville with «| 0% monologue. At the Broadway The. atre recently Jack Dempsey was in ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. mquunrecemes H. G.—Care Wilner & Romberg, Lyric Theatre Building. Ike K.—Jane Cowl {s playing in Chi- cago. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Eddie Oshier of Wost 116th Street has sent us @n essay on “The Bug,” Which slarta out: “The bug are a li te ani at crawls around laying WELL acieat down.” WHAT Gouy 1D ; wa 3. Which city is nearer New York— Gee wiz! Seay pie Table ON ee, een decksonville, Fla., or Chicago, 111.7 FOOLISHMENT. wHy THE wiv GREAT | | KNOW He Ever 4, What color is a lobster before it] Now, winter with tts freezes WATERFALL * WANE ny SPANKED i hee a | Doesn't sutt some folks at all; SONNY 7 Go ree boast of East You hear their kicks the minute r 4 Ape! te the written gvidence of| That the snow begins to fall. MEM hat’ de wevcall amare nuit?! ro me there's just one hurdship Nearly the same meaning as ancther?| ‘That it sometimes brings avout, ae mestlnpt call a word of op-| 17 it's long it's pretty hard ty 9. Which State produces the most} Make my clothes hhorax? hola 10. Which kind of coal deposits are “most plentiful, anthracite or bitumin ont, ous? « Sewers f ANSWERS. ROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. | co fe g Little Breezy Eaton, film star, is a Precocious lad, according to a story ing the rounds about him, In Sun- school recently each little boy ‘was asked to quote a phrase from the Soripture as he dropped his nickel on the plate. ‘The little fellow ahead of Breczy sald: "The Lond” Ienetd | rank Mayers has resigned as eheerful giver.” As the plate reached | TTe@surer of the Liberty Theatre Breezy he said: \ pack igo! and his money are soon JACK HELPS JACK OUT, Jack McAuliffe, the undefeated re- Capt. George Smithfield, who pro- duced shows abroad for the soldiers, is new in “Pitter Patter.” F. Ziegfeld jr. has engaged Max Hoffman as musical director of the new “Midnight Frolic.” after sixteen years im that position. May Thompson, appearing with Joseph Cawthorne in “The Half- Moon” at the Liberty, has been given a long-term contract by Charles Dtl- lingham. The same thing has hap- Levant ABOU WE THINKS 1S MAKIN HIS FAIR GROW aici sett” Pe ROOT as ATER EvERYGOoY SAD IT WAS A Fake! a ha a ae = ee a ee ee haeias Weeer ae” 5 CN ia leat 487 mm eo Three Out—Nobody Home t