The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1921, Page 12

Se os hoe adh senateiadtnaanameatenenoe aaae __ Wo ae ep THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1921. U vt Franklin Simon a Co, Jranklin Simon g Co. | A Store of Individual Shops : is A Store of Individual Shops ig h \ H \When Horseshoes Nestled In Bowery Boxing Gloves , In Good Old N. ¥. Days John G. Sparks, Fifty Years al Comedian, Recalls Glorious | ! Time and Insists Notorious | Street Was Better Than Its | | Reputation—Tells About + Happy Seasons With Harri- gan and ‘Hart — Veteran * Can Still Jig and Make His Thousands Laugh. By Charles Darnton. Back to the old Bowery, when the horseshoe nestied in the boxing glove and you coulin’t walk a block Without danger of being hit by a sailor thrown through swinging doors, goes the memory of John G. Sparks, who has just turned his fiftieth year on the stage as the Irish janitor in “Smooth as Silk” at the Frazee Theatre. “Yes,” saki the veteran, "I've good reason for saying I know every foot Harrigan and Hart as @ team. Mr. Ot the famous Bowery. But with all |iiacrigan re- engaged the entire com. its dives," he added mildly, “it wasn't pany, and we the folowing ae bad ao its reputation. Nor was it) season at areata ark Theatre in is masterpi i. lavender, Li : adam hohe ad peed ale one |the opening night the entire 7th Reg thing, there were no gunmen in thore /iment was there in evening dress. @aye. If an argument arose it was/The er By, was “The Grip,’ a satire ‘ A nt |On local politics, and then came ‘The ry Sisew aint be ae tp, wat | Leather Patoh,’ in vehich 4 played i » jertaker, who buried peo- the job was done artistically and|pie at cut rates, We maie gar first bum) @ jostle, and |trép to the Pal Coast in 1887, when aan eee ae Or at there wan |David Warfield waa an usher in the ‘great deal of human kindness along | Bush Street Theatre, San Francisco, way. If you were down on your Yuck you couldn't go far without FIFTH AVENUE, 37th and 38th STS, FIFTH AVENUE, 37th and 38th STS. SATURDAY ol AY The Uogue of Glorified Simplicity SATURD That Follows the Fashion of Utonnet A New Fashion and a Low Price THE FAGOTTED FROCK Meet ona New Level . - : OF CREPE DE CHINE THE SASHED SUIT For Mademoiselle (14 to 20 yrs.) WITH PONY BOX COAT 3 9 50 For Mademoiselle (14 0 20 yrs.) Value Suggested by the Price is Confirmed by the Frock 5 0 00 ONCE DE LEON sought it in the Florida fountain, countless ‘ ‘ ‘ thousands have searched for it ever - caercltoe apne ui since, Paris found it in the frocks . fford to be without of Vionnet—eternal Youth. All who MSS CaN BITOrd LO eae —for the pony box suit, made expressly for Youth, ex- would retain it or acquire it may presses youth in every line. “ee © @& t ly 8, 1890. I've been in ma Waving a friendly band held out to|or,oB,1uy #1800, Tive been tn many you. Somebody would stop you and | happiest daye were those with Har- Offer to help you. And heaven |rigan and Ha’ knows, there were plenty who needed | For fifty vark a comedian, John G Belp! ‘The music halls were patron- Sparks is now seventy. Hut hie feet ized mainly by sailors and derelicts|are as light as his heart, and he can Who sought a little entertainment to | stil! er ance a Ne or real take their minds off their hard luck. pied, ISMN el cw a | REV H, F. CYNCH RESIGNS: “Those were hard audiences to play apa th, but if we managed to cheer them | ‘The Rev. Harold F. Lyngh, for seven Bp a bit we felt repaid for our ef: |years ansistant pastor of the Church forts. As for the money we got, It/of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue and Tenth “Street, and Secretary of the am wear the fagotted frock that fol- -lows the Vionnet fashions. Waan't muc! STARTED THEATRICAL CAREER ublic forum connected with the AS A BOWERY WAITER. i church, has resigned, bis resignation After a reflective ari ae awe St his!to become effective May 1. H Tangerine, Beige, Alice Blue, Gray, \elgar, Mr, Sparke, wen ffiends have ‘arranged a dinner Yor Whi 0 avy Blue Tricotine with Fringed Silk Sash “IL was broke when ry went to Owney thm at a restaurant at No. 6 es as ghan's, after dancing in a beer nia Sttreet next Wednesday eve- hite or Navy Blue MG & garden at No. 7 Chatham Square and LN it 2 ry. Owney knew my ay ‘committee is raising a purse to ee r, and so he gave me a job wait-|pe given him at the dinner. By ugene fe on table and doing a fie for ala. Goff of 858 West 85th Street is | ‘gollar and a half a night. Geoghan's|Chairman of the committee. Mr. | Place was tough in name only. AjLynch has not announced his future ereen who did igtdesind wrong "tues » Say he intends aa aa ont eno Ne ever could come ty re { ke This waa an ironciad rule with | ney, and the waiters enforced MISSES’ GOWN SHOP—Second Floor MISSES’ SUIT SHOP--Second Floor. plans, further than this summer. Franklin Simon & 0 A Store of Individual Shops FIFTH AVE.—37¢h and JSth Sts, Saturday—in the New Shop of Girlhood Fashions . it ith neatness and despatch. If one of the boxers nenesned to be getting ‘very much the worst of it, st mete ah \nvould ohange the aoowe and slip a horseshoe, but this was all in fetgnt's sport, and nobody got “about It. I believe the horsesh originated ‘at Goomhan'e, but Its popu- larity was not confined to his place.” ‘Taking up his more legitimate then- trical career, Mr. Sparks told of his (first part in a play: PLAYED WITH FANNY HERRING «IN NATIONAL GARDEN. “It was a good part, though | hgdn't word to say. I went over to the Rational Garden and played the dumb Jailer in “The Dumb Boy of Manches- Yer,” with Benoy Herring. Fanny was cockeyed, but a god a Franklin Simon 8 Co. A Store of Individual Shops FIFTH AVE.— 37th and 38th Sts. ts Saturday—the NC ew Girlhood Shop Endorses Checks in Two-PIECE GINGHAM FROCKS FOR GIRLS Franklin Simon 8 Co. A Store of Individual Shops _ FIFTH AVENUE, 37th and 38th STS. te Tiers Are The Steps By Which Fashion Ascends... THE TIERED ctress—so good | that her talent oversnadowe d her af- pee ey {aus engagemept was at t CAPE-SLEEVED | Coats For GIRLS CAPE-WRAP of VELDYNE - 975 oft a Remarkable Price . . . For Mademoiselle (14 t0 20 yrs.) Kyn to the Bramley Fashions— 2 ta 58. Without Kindred in Value ; J SIZES 6 TO 16 YEARS : as ae ‘Tueatre Comigue, No. 8| : The Value and Quality Harrigan didn’t Uke the title of our pong, thinking it a bit rough for ' wi think that’s where I gut my luck, though I never rutoed his hump. the managec being rather sensitive on \s is point. ‘WW Vo ‘8 iy act” ie asked. H. oui Brother: te sid. fast. ‘That youn rin . } it it t. I didn't eee ve mua RYEr EVA 8 (Sizes 12 to 16 years) where my people had moved from New | ‘York, and hunted up a friend named Hennessey. ‘How'd you like to be my brother for a couple of wecks?’ I asked him. ‘Fine!’ said Herneaeey, So we began practising a song and Hance in the barn. SONG WINS HIM PLACE WITH | HARRIGAN & HART. “The song was "The Gas House men | Hine. rhe ; Speak at First Sight: ber emea's| (NE from num- OATS at twice , : ders and making a terrible noise thts we landed a hit. But one hight a membor of the company came to me and complained: ‘You're doing my ree!’ “Doing your reel? I exclaimed. ‘Why my mother did this reel be- fore you were born’ Harrigan ikea my getting back at the grumbler in this way and gave me a congratuln- tery wink. A good man was Harri- gan, but a cute fellow. He'd write bers more nu- merous than girls, newer than the shop that has just opened its doorsto the price could not be better quality; no coats at any FASHION amicable to all occasions from dawn- to-dusk-and-after, in weight amenable to all the season’s \ | | Ree tre art Anes play ant : rice could be A temperatures, for though yeu down girlhood, the two- P u P : 8 “I stayed with Harrigan and Hart| ¢éntinuously for twelve years. In| QcSoriey's Inflation 1 was one of | four market women who sang Market on Saturday Night,’ eiebably the most popular aong Hor. Een ever wrote, I was playing the fi an of the glue factory in ‘In-| Festigation’ when the theatre burned | to the, ground on the night of Dec. a1 We opened two weeks later at the Park theatre, afterwards known as the Herald Square, in ‘Mc- Allietera Teency.' I plnved T O'Brien, a blacksamith, with his piece gingham frock is a blank check signed by Fashion, filled in by Youth. better fashion; no coats at this price could be better value. o Of Bolivia or Duvet Velour in the. warmer weather decreases aA the hours when a wrap is ‘) necessary,Fashion increases the occasions when this wrap is a necessity. BEN es a te cae ie ape . In Navy Blue, Sorrento Blue, Mouffion Tan or oer eet Red, Copenhagen or Brown Checks Fashisnable Youthful Colors; Noy ‘ 4 fp any, i the drink §s dn the truth comes ont! Fy v - ws A % Silk Lined Throughout Black; Silk Lined 7 hroughout é WARFIELD ONCE AN USHER IN A ~ & COAST THEATRE. — i . ; P aan a inne ‘brie sense Ee NEW GIRLS’ DRESS SHOP—Second Floor NEW GIRLS’ COAT SHOP—Second Floor MISSES’ WRAP SHOP—Second Floor j