The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1921, Page 32

eure ' About Plays By BIDE HQ OMEBUDY asked us the otber i @ay how the custom of having 7 end men in minstrel shows origi- ated. It was too much for us, so we Consulted Al G. Field, the veteran “piinsirel. Ho says the custom was ‘started by Dan Emmett, writer of ‘the song “Dixie” “Wren Emmett formed the first and of real minstreis back in 1842,” aid Mr. Fiotd, with the aid of the “pestman, “be had with him Frank Brower, Billy Whitlock and Dick Pelham. They were just a band of ‘qmtertainera’ One night, while they “Were on the stage, Emmett began to ‘dune his banjo and the E string broke. “He managed to tie it up and it apapped again, Pelham and Brower Began to poke fun at Emmett and Dan lost bis temper and shot replica -back at thom. To his other men responded with witticlsms “Bnd the audience was tickled {m- “Mensely, That was the beginning of ‘custom of using end men and In- ra” TO PLAY “MACBETH.” ( Walter Hampden will add “Mac- eeth” to hig Shakespearian repertoire @uring bis Philadelphia engagement beginning the second week in Febru- ary. Besides bis Shakespeare, Mr. ampéen is presenting Charles Rann Kefnety’s “The Servant in the! Hous.” 5 BUSEY TO ACT. ~ Harry Busey, guardian of the Cen- @nr7'e stage door, has become a Thes- plan. He will be a sailor on a French @rulser in “In the Night Watch,” ‘Which opens at the Century.to-morrow ‘might. Hy told Director Stanhope of ®& Gesire to act, and was given the F ‘The new actor wants it dis- ‘understood, however, that he is ot a “super,” as he has one Une to ‘Whe Century Promenade's new late ahow, “The Midnight Rounders ;4931," announced to open Monday, ‘been put over iti) Saturday eve- “MRS. HARR ‘Mrs. Henry B, Harrie will make her Gout ase vaudeville producer Mon- @ay at the Palace when she presents boys. Jane Cowl, play- fae in Chicago, has sent Miss Reed ‘\a@ check for $100 and a letter warmly . tminutes Jater he was back “You didn’t write that tune,” he “@bnounced. © “Well, who did then?” asked Mr. ~ “A fellow named Washington Poet,” aia the youth triumphantly, N Gossip. ‘Olive Tell will be in “Cognac.” \ Loretta Morgan, niece of the Indian mitt. has joined “The Greenwich lage Follies.” | | Omar Shaw bas been engaged for # Ziextelad “Garden Frolic" and ght Frolic.”* j Grave La Rue und Hale Hamilton Sn given John Golden a whiskey xt us Very. proity, but empty. Raymond Hitchcock will be master sf ceremonies at the Neighborhood ‘Pond gwen at the Hippodrome to- t. | | ‘The Lenox Hill Players are reheare- @ Hindu pantomime called “The t of the Blue” and “ ‘ieopatra.” | Performances fur children will be) iven to-morrow morning at the Ri-| Rialto und Criterion Theatres to ~~ FOOLISHMENT. retorts fhe _ ' Lonpon ‘a and Players DUDLEY What Don’t You Know? What sort of a derrick did they use to Lower Oaliforniaf I} Jeales Hurtig liked the act ing of Louts would Harry eee Mann? If the olive were blue and the prune green how would it affect the color of the orange? If the Atlantic Ocean were to dry up how many men would go into the junk business? When did Conan Doyle butld his apartment house known ae the Bherlock Homes? : Why doce a rat always hold a mouse in contempt and which of them is the more honorable? 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