The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 22

_ About Plays By So drethér of David Belasco, which . occurred yesterday in San Fran-| elsco, he acting profession lost & good and kindly friend. at Bis Alcazar Theatre, in the Call- fornia city, he gave many players of gOte their starts by training them in “hia stock company. Biorence Roberts, Frances Starr, Bert Lytel, Ernest Glendinning and of others may thank Frederic for much of the training they Fepelved in their early years on the stage. Mr. Belasco had controlled @he Alcazar for more than twenty years. At intervals he would come 4> New York to visit his brother and thousands of friends ho had In fhe profession here, He made his Test trip Bast five years ago. A year il last night the news of his rother’s death was kept from David | as he was yery thed froin) work and worries of producing | burau,” scheduled to open at the] Belasco Theatre to-morrow night. PRONUNCIATION DID IT. Virginia Valli, screen star, lives at @ hotel on Upper Bryauwey, T ether day she experienced @ sho that mado her rather peevish, ‘Toe Smmene in her room rang and she an- “Valli?” said a man's gruff voice. “Yes," she replied. rf “Come to my room and get my e; its, L want them pressed.” . Valli slammed the receiver on ‘a the hook, Then she went downstairs | and said a }ittle speech to the tele- | f On the man’s pronunciatios, NOW SHE'S AN ACTRESS. ed “The Passing Show ‘of 1921." @ months ugo Miss Lenney was a Teal estate saleswoman, She came to om @ real estate deal and “landed” « job on the stage. — ! Bieert been used in any New York Publication for a week. MALONE COMING HERE Gapt. J. A. E, Malone, who repre- gents Comstock & Gest in London, has been elected a member of the ea Lauritiard. He, will visit New York soe “Mecca.” Grossmith & Lagrillard will present the ‘Aache play at His Majesty's Theatre, NO em SB PLT oe night who took $180 from A ie we Boys’ Club of St. Patrick's Gathedral will have a minstrel show 4t the Waldorf on Jan. 3. John Golden will put “Me,” starring La Rue and Hale Hamilton, in the Republic when the run of "Duddy Dumplins” ends. Clare Kummer has been Invited to Join’ the Dramatists’ Authors’ League of America The Young People's Theatre vom- | Pany will give two plays and a pan- moons of Dec, 27, 28 and ‘Yera Gordon will go to Sing Sing < mketch, oners. “The Greenwich Village Follies” will have a tree at the The giris will hang “Lullaby,” before the pris- is to return to the screen in "Get Rich Quick Walling- fora,” a Cosmopolitan picture. Alexander Leftwich will stage a pageant at the Bik Show at) nd Central Palac 7 to 12. il Quaid’s final “apreneGiton be held at Proctor’s Fifth Ave- Tuesday night. ‘Bin pipes are right. Bill may sing if! * r est at a beefsteak dinner to-night. | = members of the Capitol orchestra 15 i pay the check and tip the w ‘Marjorie Gateson, recently of Rs @e Miss Charity,” has been engi for & good role in “The Rose Gi Abe Aronson, who plays the rear, of the camel in “The Passing | w of 1921,” claims the front lems his shins, He may take it up with t ‘The Mtaveniie “sextet appearing in revival of “Florodora” will en- in the crippled children at Belle- vue Hospital at 3 P, M. Saturday. Mary Coudert will distribute toys. Mary Miles Minter arrived in Now York from California yesterday to 4 Christmas, She will return to fim work. Fritz Leiber will begin his Shake- rian engagement at the Lexington tre Montlay night in mle i Our Own Fiction A young woman, her face and Wher lips showing an overdose of "ved, stood looking in a store window, eating some candy, A “poorly dressed little girl of eight stepped up and gazed wistfully ) at the candy. The young woman “gave her a piece and the child “ate it eagerly. One arm went around the little girl's shoulders “nd she was invited to take some more. “Hey, Kid!" said a masculine ‘Poice, coming from behind, “don't “falk to that woman, She don't mean any good by you.’ “A look of pain came over the | young woman's face. “No,” she acid to the child, “you mustn’t y tale to me. But oh! how you i womind me of a little girl I once (baew—my Uttle girl.” te The child moved away, awed. ; The cop frowned at the young | woman. “Beat tt back home, now, or man, © was said heart disease killed him. Nance O'Neil, | off three gold mines last week, noeuvring on his part to do it he suffered a paralytic stroke. | ne girl, The girl, however, blamed | (eaves) cn ep | Milian Lenney of Cleveland has! New York to see the Messrs. Shubert | Note the joke, | Tt is ortginal with us and| GETTING IN Board of Directors of Grossmith | * Gossip. | Kuy Kendall met a highwayman} SHOWS SPEED Guild of the| fomime at the Apollo on the after- | a ‘on New Year's Day and present her} Shubert | a .& L. Rothafel will be the honored | Pacific Coast in a week to resume | eet Players DUDLEY M the death of Frederic Belasco, Virginia Bronson will be Ophelia and Irby Marshall Gertrude. ANSWERS “TO ) INQUIRIES. eee him Eltinge ‘The- Or found dead in bed at th ago, on Ap Goldbere—Ciift Gordon Hotel Sher- 1918. It A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. George Lusher of Colorado traded or a car of coal but It took a lot of ma FOOLISHMENT. “We have no arms around the house, They scare me;” then in haste She added: “But I have no fear Of arms around the waist.” FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE “Binks, the shoe dealer, was beld up lant night.” “Probably by a u footpaa.* Wews Cinpers <= FUNNY. 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