The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1920, Page 32

‘COMIC PAGE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1920 silanes ere JOE’S CAR - THE NEW PLAYS || Tony Sarg’s Marionettes Revive “Rip Van Winkle” | BUSINESS AS I Do To AUTOS | y CHARLES DARNTON | 7D _BE A BILLIONAIRE BY nowt} COGNITION is everything in the world of make-believe, Out popped @ rabbit on strings at the Punch and Judy Theatre yesterday after- | noon, and it looked so natura! that an enthusiastic youngster more A-U-T-O, AUTO - M-0,- MO ~ B-t-L-€, “Bie” ———— AUTOMOBILE *! GOSH! IF I PUT AS MUCH THOUGHT “To MY | COpreigh! 1998, Prase Publlahing Co (NT Hivening World “Ty NEXT Bikd “Har says MOTOR GAR “To ME — 1 “uns VLE RAP HIM ONE ON f 4 TH’ Nose § — - a BRING IT DOWN AN LEMME LOOK AT wT ttl NOW LISTEN MR, JINKS — Ive Got A COUPE HERE Tar A MAN PAID A DEPOSIT ON , and “HEN BACKED OUT. & CAN LEY YOU HAVE (T, LESS “THE AMOUNT LLOF_His DEPOSIT \F You or less seated in the third row sang out, “Hello Bunny!" Everybody ; laughed and clapped enough to scare an ordinary, every-day bit i ' This joyous occasion was a performance of “Rip Van Winkle” by f Tony Sarg’s Marionettes, and it's too bad Joseph Jefferson didn't live to! w t ®ee it, for he surely would have laughed himself to death. Maybe he| it, ‘Would have been a bit surprised at hearing Kip's dog called Wolf instead t Of Schneider, but you can bet a cookie against a doughnut that he would! r Rave given that dog something more than a bone for its performance, it | was easy enough for Wolf to bring the rabbit to his master after it had| ’ | een shot by Rip. Any hunting dog can do that trick. Wolf showed his| Cs ue f @rue sagacity in the Catskills when the one-sided conversation turned on| domestic relations. The mere mention of thie subject caused him to| THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY ' gtowl, but there was more to come, for when Rip, after felicituting him on om the fact that marriage meant nothing in a dog’s life, asked how he ¥ Reon ery Pe Te (INE oa : ee = j would like being married to Dame Van Winkle, that knowing mongrc! nn TA GLAD You ALL) Ae must Oe LL NCVER a t gat up and howled #0 dismally that there couldn't be any question about WaT tg ae ny BOUGHT YouR” PA” A erie! vice “Thal THINK OF Some PRESENTS! \ t Wis feelings. Aside from this somewhat delicate matter, Wolf put up a AT FAMILY ) XMAS PRESENT—AN’ i WS Ae Lookin’ INTHZES «= Midosultm aes good fight against a neighboring dog. MINE MUST “THINK HERE ARE SOME MORE oe CLOTHES = Aire’) f Like the youngster that greeted “Bunny,” you never could tell what TM “SANTA CLAUS L THst BusT come! PLACE hw) ieee | } CRAZY Yo SEE WOT f ‘wes coming next, nor how It was going to act. But the acting was very, / ALL@T Ve BEEN DOIN’ Id \ ‘ ef pecan XMAS t Nase TTHEW’RE ALL GIVIN very good. Bven Bunty herself couldn't have pulled the strings better. DEALIN’ OUT Douce For en Rew a iE ME -ILL SES STEAL Rip Van Winkle” was not merely revived, it was made young by Sarg’s Pecan uu (t= meee spy } “ end T HAVE'AUNT \* F 6 Marionettes—that ts, the spirit of the thing was as youthful as soap THEIR XMAS LISTS -AN ; LL \ MAGGIES AND COUSIN £ bubbles and too clever for words, though actora behind the scenes suited | (BET T AINT ON ONE OF 'EM SI'S” HERE t f their words to the action with uncommon cleverness. Moreover, !f you —— 2 - See ee Please, Nick Vedder puffed clouds of smoke from his pipe between his}, Buffaws, and was the jolliest of landlords. And Rip, up in the mountains & after his wife had turned him out, had a lot of fun until Hendrick Hudeon and ‘his crew, whos. phantom ship was as plain as plain can be, made him drink a whole keg of stuff quite too much for any man. When he Awekened from his twenty years’ sleep poor Rip was as bald as an eagle and as thin asa match. But om getting back to the old tavern, he rattled gold out of his pockets, and his daughter knelt at his knee, and to make everything still more beautiful there, was a dazzling Christmas tree in the back parlor. Then, when everybody thought there couldn't possibly | be another surprise, a gigantic marionette looking suspiciously like Tony 4 ‘Sarg came out and bowed and bowed and bowed, Sarg may truly be iden- j tified as a theatrical Santa Claus giving childri great Christmas treat. About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY EE SHUBERT announces that the . | next attraction to play the|( By Way of Diversion. Lyric Theatre will be Nora Bayes in her new musical production, | Be, satisfled, friend, with your lot. “Wer Family Tree.” The opening 18! Ais envy doesn’t pay. set for Dec, 27, In the support of | on, there are things you haven't got Miss. Bayes will be Julius Fotis That others own; but say— Al Roberts, Frank Morgan, Florence | suppose you had them—all these Morrison, Una Fleming, Thelma Carl- thinda? wn, Arthur Gordoni, Jerome Bruner, | ee ; Donald Sawyer, the Randall Sistera,| Nine chances out of ten Eaith Rook, Marguerite Daniels and |Your wishing wouldn't take to Tom Bryan. wings. Another opening set for Dec. 27 1s| You'd covet o the new “Passing Show of 1920,"|/= * ———_ which will go into the Winter Garden. dy age mene n bly Lag) i ee 4 ; went to Synday school recently and The company will have forty-two! The teacher spoke of the Creator. To principals, headed by Hugene and|jimpress the word deeply on their 3 Willie Howard, Marie Dressier and | minds she wrote it on @ blackboard _| in the class room ut y the little Harry Watson. Others are Tot Qual people, as follows: Pi tera, Janet Adair, Zamboun! and | 0 1 b-A-T-O-R.” 'S O'Hanlon, Mellette Sisters, Cortez and| “There, now, children,” she said. [your A mail ak 4 one aye & PIECE OF CAKE IF yOu'LL STOP | PLAYING INDIAN / ) Maer T'Lu Gwe YOu i avs Sore INDIAN SOME MoRE?® | WA -WA mA Mae Ngee aaa ) Har S A AWFUL ) LITTLE Piece Oo” J J CAKE —TI Guess ~( then, Sua ™ reer 73 = BNR npennranse 5 It Went to the Boss’s Head Till It Reached His Pocket! ‘ nnn, 2a riage Pr) WORE'S CROSSED, YOUR Bass TENT I y WHY 4 = fs Rosey, Dolly Hackett, Cleveland Bron-| "Yim, anal boy. who liven near tho| [ WAMF AS NEE AS.MINE ¢ WH HE'S THE LAS "BANS ot Bp 4 te, Frank Ridge,|pevys put up his hand and was per-| | ORIGINAL PRINCE. GOOD LOOKING? j ¥ Grace and Berkes, Stone and Hayes, | mitted to answer. NOU KNOW HE IS AND SOME DO MORE FOR Ml : Ingrid Solfeng, Emily Miles, Irving| “H@s the leader of « Eyetalian DRESSER. “THE KIND OF A FELLOW , O'Hay, na Hayward, May Devereux, | "94" said the ( paged Mahoney, Grace Keeshon, Gossip. els and Miles, Juli , : Vay. Joanstte Dicteeh Tere aie4 | Helen Freeman has been employed NS ‘Anthony Tockin, Bob Gilbert |#* oficial Christmas shopper for the and W. H. Pringle. is ert) performers at the Hippodrome. Phillips has been engaged yes,” opening in Atlantic 27, SHE EXPLAINED IT, | mesieg ind thontte Walch Te howe | William Balfour has joined the cast &@ book play, last night, when a bling (Sf |,"When We Are Young” Frank @pan was ied in. Monroe has gone to “Three Live . “Why, there's @ blind man,” said the | Thosts @ecort. “How-can he enjoy a play?” Hy Mayer, cartoonis*, is sailing for ~ “He can hear the players’ voices,” | Europe to-day on the Aquitania shi = a <a lied the gir}, “and then, he's prob-| Margaret Sumner has been engaged b i. : ry ly read the book.” to understudy the feminine roles in = ¥. \ —- “Rollo’s Wild Oat.” ASA ae HUMORISTS SEE A PLAY. Jessica Brown has been added to the * George Ade and Irvin Cobb went to| cast of ane Waphuy pcaight Re- 4 the Little Theatre to see Frank|¥ue" at the Century Promenade. a ; eqeyen in “The First Year’ ane night “Sally,” starring Marilynn Miller KA T I N K A As a Guest, Katinka Guessed Wrong! Recently. Both to stand as all the/and Loon Errol, will open at the New| peqsaco oso aig ~~ = 7 ‘eeats were sold. Later Mr, Ade said| Amsterdam on Tuesday instead of| PUHE MISsUS HIRED TWo ROOMS IN A(TeC GOIN HER vo Mr. Craven: Monday. THIS HOTEL BUT 1 DON'T LiKe Vy, Room To Frank, getting in to see your show| yorty boys from Trinity School will| | MINE — NO SOAP OR ts harder than ng presented atisen William Faversham in ‘The ANYTHING IN HERE ! Court.” 5 Prince and the Pauper” to- i “Yes” Mr. added, “you simply tee he Pauper’ to-morrow af. ean't buy tickets at all—you have to i cj Raymond Hitcheock, who goes on pe. Hherit them. tour in “Hitchy-Koo" K, 1s ¥ ik Was A GREAT SHOW, warning is aud meee not to let ‘the ‘The members of the Advertising| Alico Detysia keops a large safe in Club of New York gave « show the| por are piher night, and since that time have! eat Raker! Been bragging about the talent ‘that | Buxe Aeveloped. Manning Waketleld and | Paul Meyer were suid to be simply | t grand, The club may stage the ente i tainment at the Hotel Waldorf for onc | m at the Central to vols while she is on the Reed will play in “The for the 100th time at the auare Theat performance soon, just to show the} ember ‘Spanish i Fegular theatrical’ producers what's | Love’ pany, at Mo Eliiott's i what. Theatre, works for the movies after E eels | noons. Brat, THE BOY WHO KNEw. A touring company of “The Bat" Li Bert Lovy, the trick ca opened Jast night at Wilkes-Barre. It i" @ story of @ little boy who Ii is headed for the Princess, Chicago foal J. K. Emmet, son of Fritz, has a vaudeville playlet at Loew’ Theatre. It 1 called ‘The | DO YOU | KNOW? =|: QUESTIONS. ‘ope!| LEAVE IT TO LOU \ was conside {Cont GET Oe Benes aut 1, In what State is Death Valley to-| in Hugo Riesenfeld's recent WE!S— WHAT 00 YOU WANT 2 cated? content’ for composers, Will lead. the LS ee oe ee. er ME os ag s Li 2. How nearly pure is 18 karat gold?| Rialto orchestra Sunday When it is| TH’ SORI 3. What is the co of diseases! played by the orchestra at that aa S (es called? theatre 4. How many times larger than the S moon is the cart i A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. 5. Who founded the Persian Em-| rij the average girl she's beautt- ful and she'll follow you around, French woman became famous as a paint A ' it is the largest cit: OOLISHMENT. Badal reset city in South! 4 iady named Helen Mue Binge Dakot: 8B. What discovery brought fame to| said, “Pooh! I don't care for these Prof. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen? kK ‘What animal, familiarly known ange ; anot oi? also called the| They sit on a throne ry ERTS nate “autooret of the| ANd their heads arg pure done, “Breakfast Table?” Oh, ain't they the awful old things! ANSWERS, FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “What ts the largest room in the worla?’ “1 dunno!” » “Room for improvement’