The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1921, Page 36

By BIDE Seige Plays and ——] DUDLEY L. HRLANGER, Charles Dill- ingham and F. Ziegfeld jr. have acquired all the pro- A. acing rights of every kind of “Ben Ber,” the William Young play.| fownded on the famous Lew Wallace | @tory. Included in the transaction are! the motion ploture rights for which, alone, the price is $1,000,000. There hae been much Hitigation over “Ben | Bur.” For years the Wallace heirs) bave refused to let the story be fikned. | Brlanger, Divingham and Ziegfeld) ‘will send out an entirely new produc- tion of the play early next fall “Pen Hur" as a play, was first pro- @eced by Klaw & Priangor at the) Broadway Theatre on Nov. 25, 1899. © ‘Phe day before tt opened the produc- era, doubting its value as an attrac- tion, consulted Charles Frohman, then the biggest map in New York @eatricals, He said it “didn’t havo ome chance in a million” to succeed Re opened just the same, wooks there was a kine more than a Wook long leading to the box office IR is estimated that the play has been geen by 20,000,000 people to date, WILLARD INJECTS PEP. Willard Mack has injected some) ew lines into his play, “Smooth as! Silk,” which will reopen at the Frazee Theatre Monday. Among them are these: | “Probfbition ain't a inw; it's a sen- tence.” | “You've got the girl under ether. | @he's baimy—she's balmy.” | “Bey, young woman, do you think | your fellow is the only crook who, ever lived in this house? Ask me. | T'm the janitor.” | “Half the time nowadays when you @e a stick-up man and an officer in| the prisoner's dock you don’t know | ‘hich one is being tried.” HERE'S YOUR CHANCE. Grace La Rue and her husband, Hale Hamilton, have had a stage gonstructed in their studio and intend | fe use it for “Secret Soul” midnight | matinees after they get home from “Dear Me." The idea ia this: Miss Za Rue and Mr. Hamiiton know that is have as- y roles thnt On this] many of their actor f red for years to p ave Never come their way, Bacon Hamlet. to drop in and go to it. ol that has come to their e t Frank Craven wants to try Shy- Jock. He'H be given the opportunity, provided he furnishes his whiskers. It's a good own idea We'd Hike to play Coal Ol Johnny, and we'll do it too if Miss La Rue and} Mr. Hamilton will furnish the “props.” FLORENCE WOULD SERVE. “{ hear,” says a note from Florence | ‘Webber, prima donna and comedienne, “that you are to lecture Sunday night at White Plains. You and I have Been friends for some time. Wouldn't You like to leave instructions with me as to where you want the body sent?” SAXTON “TRIES OUT.” | - “Say,” said Charles Gordon Saxton Stast night, “I once wanted to go in waudeville with a monologue. Do you a hit?" think I would have be: “Give us a sample," we said. So this is what he spoke “1 had a pet herring once, Every | @ay 1 took a spoonful of water out of Bs bow! and by the time the water was all out he was used to it.” Fine!" sud we, applauding. “Well, when the herring—Mike was Bis name—was dry, I put him i @ird cage. One day . ft * Aanking m 1 dot you, readers? Do you oh pe do we | » GOSSIP, : fi. will address the Friars 3 16. His subject wilt be “I Am) van Actor.” Olga Petrova will be starred by th Gelwyne in September in a new play | ‘by @ new author Milton Berle and Elizabeth Kennedy @re entering vaudeville in a sketch Milton Hockey and H. J. Green. Leon Friedman has signed a con- “tract with F. Ziegfeld jr. to be pub. | Betty man for “The Follies” for five mor. sketch ony ad an of the Woods” be played in the Lambs’ Intimate Freda ices has had to can- kts act. Freneh will have a kid show Garden on May 7. It wiil fmecinde a scene from “The Sony, ‘Danghter.” ‘Wleanor Painter has been engaged | sing the leading prima donna role | | “The Last Waltz.” ~_Avgustus Rolland of “in the ae | Watch,” intends to spend the summer @e ® eailor in the South American trots. " ihe : mi tt ' ¥ p aeerene TO INQUPRIES. Address Julius Cabn, Long- New York. Sword Seeder Anonymous matter will mot be goer hore. If you can't| sign it, don’t send Ht. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. {When Waly Jasper Jones of Wells- i wile told Miss Alfalfa Ostermoor he : wes demumtet eres Kings, she said * Re wrst have descended a long ways. FPOOLIGHMENT. Phe took her fellow's picture, One sunny day in May; Within a month they married; Oh, gosh! He was a jay. Again she took his picture, One Axoust afternoon; P46 ask you ali to sing this, But I cin’t got no tune, coal | you're almost anid ot out, Bronx | Lonpon CLaims Lynn, Mass.? How much corn does it take to All a cornucopiar How many people tive Schmeer Istand, and why! If you could teach your cow to mitk- shimuny, shakes? would she give How does an armtess man dis- lodge a fly from the end of his not the nose (the fy's)? Who gave Three Oaks, Ia., name, and what did he against the townt man's nose, hav IT LOOKED THAT WAY. D. Frank Dodge, who raises the ice worms and wearch ants at Anthills, | Westchester County, N. Y.. and for) the office of Alex Harris, the other day and saw two samples of coal on Mr. Harris's desk, dealer, “Huh!” said D. Frank Alex." | WHAT DON’T YOU KNOW: How much linseed is there in on its e entered wholesale “1 seo EWs( sCopers | BY aoe if DEmManos NEw R.R. STATION — A BRONX HAS CARRIED MANY BY A STATION HE OWNS A CAR Akal IN AU ROBBERY — HAS TURNED TURTLE AFTER A U0Y RIDE THAT BRITISH ARE GROWING ROUNDHEADED rane UROPEA! INvagion — OUR FOREIGH INVASION, BROUGHT A LOTTA SRUMEEE TT BOLICE im Now To ACT OUTA WITH No SALOONS ON HIS BEAT GREEK KING ae | DRY AGENTS PROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Prisoner, your are charged with What did WANTS HIS Pay INCREASED ° $400,000 A YEAR — SOME ANTE FOR A_KING AiGH FLUEH eT HARD To —m Give ANYONE Go THE FREEDOM To OF THE City OF NY. IT TIED uP | DELAWARE WoMAN BREAKS OFF ENGAGEMENT AFTER SEEING PHOTOGRAPH OF FUTURE HUSBANDS FAMILyY— MANY A GIRL HAS REPLIED WN THE NEGATIVE. 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