The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1921, Page 12

About Plays By BIDE BE MNWH, old-time min- gomebody has been spoofing us, He 3 _ fefers to @ story about an Engtlivh- tog man whose cane wes out off by de- 3 tees as & joke and who finally told Bi his Yeitnds he bolieved he was grow- 3 ing talior. We printed the story here, a MoNish @ays it happened to J. J. Kelly of Boston, who was « tenor ‘with Bartow, Wilson, Primrose and ‘, ‘West's Minstrels. Eddie Fox of Phila~ i» doiphia was the wag who cut the eane. It wan Kelly, aiso, according to ". MaNiwh, who ordered steak on Fri- :* “ay, on finding there was no Gh on i, the ®iM of fare, and when asked about 3 ft, mild: “God knows I ordered fish.” 4 McNieh's letter is mteresting to an % old minstrel like ourself. We wonder My ff he knows we had a brother who a galled himselt Harry Ward for stage purposes, and who owned a minstrel @how in which McNish appeared. Metian wtates that be has just re- tired from the stage. 3 ATTENTION, POETS! t ig Here's « chance for the poeta. The ’ pe ghorus girls of “Afgar” have been @hallenged by Kazuwo Iwamura, tho stage manager, to, find A : ee : o for his name, He offers a We think the only way to find og $ne would be to ewallow your gum and a wneere. What do you suggest? 'TWOULD NEVER DO. Walter 8 Durrell of the scanic artists wan discuseing the ball his club wilt hold at the Waldorf March 9. Fe “We expect to raite enough money ? to bulk a $75,000 home in the Rialto district,” he mid, “Say.” came from a friend, “about aM you could get for $75,000 in that | part of the city would be a bunk of 4] dirt.” famous for his akit “Silence | and Fun,” bas written us to soy | AS TO MISS BAKER. Betty Baker, who goted in the a pageant “Romance” at the Mard! | S Gras ball, is a daughter of Cohgute | Baker and & real actress. Anyway, | y Wiliam A. Brady has enguged her for | ‘ @ part in “The Dreamer.” He thinks | ahe can act and so does her dad. LA, LA, LUCILLE! | 'T. W. of Brooklyn sends in a poem | about Lucitie Watson of “Heartbreak | ! 3 House” at the Gurrick, Here's the | 7 Yery poem: Just add to your hirsute trophies i. Another scalp, that's all; Last night from the fourth row, cen- tre, FE met you and took my fall. My bridges are burned behind me, I'm through with playing the game; ‘The world is a dlur of grayness, And my days will be all the same. | Be forewell, my glorious goddess! It’s “Heartbreak House” for ‘me, For the wise ones say you're married And away past twenty-three. | ‘ e a . q WARREN, HOW COULD YOU? i Warren Proctor, the tenor of “Er- minic,” has a farm in New Jersey. A elf arrived the other day and War- | wep. promptly named ft after Irene | } Williams, the prima donna, without “sven consulting the cow, The calf, * by the way, is a perfect blonde and Dawiy colorature soprano. OF COURSE THEY WILL F. Ziegtola jr. has offered a trip to Bonotalu to the team of gine which | M.ns the tug-of-war contest in the; “Nine o'Clock Revue" the most Limes @oring the season. Scems to us the! Winners will have to have a pull LUESCHER DOGS THERE. \ Mrs. Mark A. Luescher, wife of the rome manager, bas entered her | puppy, “Tony Boy,” in the Show at Madison Square Gar- | @en, and her husband has sent his Airedale terrier down from Shady Brook. It might ibe well for +the judges to give each dog a prize. | Gossip, | Prank K. ‘Truro has seen “Chree Live Ghosts" twenty-seven times. Silvio Help, composer, is recover- ing from an attack of sleeping a news Julie, the Hippodrome'’s baby eie- | i Phant, hag learned to shimmy by | Watching ber mamma, mY bY y Harry Dei is to write two vaude- Ville acts which will be produced by W. B. Friedlander, , “There wil be a Masonic theatre party at Moss’ Colisoum Monday Bight and a contest for fast smokers. Hi Quaid, manager of Proctor's Fifth Avenue, knows Gov. Edwards of New Jersey. He often goes out| in society ‘ Howard Hatt is to appear as ‘Lin- | oln in a tabloid version of “A Man} _. of the People" in the Proctor theatres A deer fox-trot contest, in which : only the ladies participate, wil be hetd at the Terrace Ganien Dance 4 Palace Tuesday night be George M. Cohan is selecting the enst for new Augustus ‘Thomas Play. Emmett Corngan will have the ieading role : Willie and Huxene Howard visited 4 a Bilis island recently. Willie ot lost | from Kugene and Commimsioner Wallis, and somebody tugxed him A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. The Chicago Inspectors’ Club awill give a show soon, Probably a Tiyeht opera! "I FOOLISHMENT. There once was a girl, Mary Shedd Who'd frequently stand on her head, One evewing her beau Asked why she did so #0}, just to be different,” she said. 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