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sed ee came nee a May Vokes said: ‘If you really want to know, 1 think women enjoy my slaveys be- cause there ia a little bit of the slavey in every woman, sone to goodacss, 1 mean that,” she added “There isn't a woman I wer knew who didn at one time or another have a feeling that she would like to discard all the silks and satins and do just a bit of digging and scrub- ALKING of the slavey she plays in “The Bat,” bing herself. And you men, with all| } your wisdom, would never know it, but there are times when every wom- ‘an likes to go dusting about her own house with this, that and the other thing for her attire without having to | give a thought to corsets, stays and the what-nots fashion compels poor | woman to bedeck herself with. There's a ne of mine in ‘The Bat’ aimed at the men, poor things, I say, ‘A man takes to a double life like a woman 10 | & kimono—it's so comforting.” ofr course that always gets a big laugh, but there's a whole lot of truth in the latter part of the speech, anyway Ask any woman you please, and if she wili teM you the truth, she'll admit | that once in a while she ‘just loves | vo slip into her kimono." “[ get more fun than you can shake | a stick at studying the different types’ of sinveys I have the chance to sec 1 think 1 was the only woman in New York who didn’t worry during wartime because it was Impossible to keep a maid for more than two weeks rupning. It gave me the best kind of an excuse to go to the employment offices, and I used to sit there by the hour, just studying the little peculiari- ties of the different types that were | applying for positions. And when | got them home—one after another—1 would sit day after day and watch their individual peculiarities,” “And you never wanted to play Juliet?” she was asked. | “Land sakes alive, no,” said Miss Vokes. And then she added as sho | wave her mouth a funny little twist, “but I wouldn't mind having her for my missus some day.” A GOOD SEAT. Leon Errol doesn't get enough exer- cise in “Sally.” He ig learning to ride ® horse on the bridle path in Central! Park. The animal is skittish and yes- terday shied at a piece of paper, farrol landed on the ground under the rorse. Another rider galloped up and nquired “What's the matter; did he throw you?” “No,” replied Errol, ting here out of the sun.” A KEITH ANNIVERSARY. Thirty-eight years ago this summer B. F. Keith “left the Barnym Show flat on the lot” and went to Boston with an idea for popular entertain- ment which he meant to develop for his own profit. He was tired of work- ng for others, and though in great demand as an amusement executive, he Durned his bridges behind him and with Hmited capital and unlimited confidence began the campaign which ended in his sovereignty over variety and its conversion into vaudeville. Late in the summer of 1883 he opened & store show in Boston, having as his headliner a Mttle black baby. He took variety acts of cleverness and vuigar- y and cut out the vulgarity. He spent his days and nights arguing with vatiety performers over the necessity of cleaning up their acts and coming with him in the new “vaude- ville,” as he called his reformed en- tertainers for Boston families. His tea was that the old-time variciy possessed all the necessary talents #nd qualifications for family shows provid could be divorced from its ‘stag’” gettings and shaped up for the women and children. The country was growing in wealth and popula- tion and there was no everyday, popu- lar-priced, smartly-presented form of theatrical entertainment possessing elements which in the main would ap- peal to all classes of theatregoers and more ewpecially the “1! attend’ in family groups. Thus the B. F. Keith idea grew from a store spto @ theatre, m just sit- THE BACONS CELEBRATE. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baoon cele- brated the thirty-sixth ecient of their marriage at their home in Bayside, L. 1, yesterday with a fum- ily dinner. The Bacons were married ip San Jose, Cal., before either went | on the etage ‘and they barnstormed | together twenty-five before Bacon made his hit as “Lightnin"| BUl Jones at the Gaiety, NATURAL PRIDE. Pride may be @ matter of breedin alone in most instances, but Hichard | arthelmens tells this story of an inieh servant: “She was a buxom product of the meraid isie and was bragging to me ip her rich brogue of a cousin who had ‘married a millionaire’ and was diving in style on Long Island. “But, Ellen, do you ever go to see er?’ 1 questioned, as she began tell- ing me of the butler, maids and obauffeur her relative had acquired. | “Sure, an’ 1 don't, but it’s not from want of being invited,’ she an-| Sweres, votsing her head proudly. | “ive not me that will be going to see amybody, even my own cousin, until 1 cam be dressed at least as good as the servants are,’” GOSSIP. The ned opeing of “The | Night will take place at the 39th Street Theatre on Aug. 15. The cast of “The Temperamental- \ste” has been completed. It includes | Adrienne Morrison, Lucile Watson, i, Gertrude Purceli, home folks" who Alexander Onslow, Frank Dekum, Charie: Warburton and Ray Stewart. The play will have {ts premiere at the Dijou Theatre on Aug. 8 Brandon Peters, James Barton will entertain the! principals of “’ home in Great Neck to-morrow, An | old-fashioned barbecue will be the | feature. The Last Waltz” at his Mix is to have Eva Novak for \¥ pietu of = Greenwich Villag 921," has been awarded the Va Pair prize ip the annual beauty con- test nity The Fairbanks ‘Twing of “Two Lit Is in Blue” will take part in F to be Thursday afternoon the revue is to show. pr: looking kiddie © range of the ave T) ane the ‘Times Squa Blanche Ring made with her hiir tetbed. ‘| Contimues to preserve hin ingrowing locks tical, good are within SAY THATS “TH’ YOUNG 6QuUIRT WHO WANTS “To MARRY OUR DeUGHTER CARRIE? 1, MARY. 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THE OTHER ELEVEN WANTED} Yo, BUT I otal tions iT WOULD HAVE BROKEN MY) HEART To SEND HIM To THE COOLER ! I DIDN'T CARE ABOUT HIM— BUT > \rorrigtt. 1901, Prom Pebiiing Co IT! Rveslng Werte) EVENI $105 In Awards | Every Week | Three of $10.00 Nine of 5.00 Thirty of 1.00 For Children Under | 15 Years of Age. | To stimulate interest in drawing | among the New York school children, The Evening World is pablishing | three days each week an uncom: | pleted strip similar to the one printed here to-day, | For the best work done in com-| pleting each strip The Evening World will make | ONE award of TEN DOLLARS, THREE awards of FIVE DOL-| LARS. TEN awards of ONE DOLLAR You will be eligible to receive an | award if you have not yet reached! } |Your fifteenth birthday at the time|with a word rhyming with “HE.” | your drawing is made, | panying strip and draw the missing | style as that in which the other NG WORLD’S SUMMER SCHOOL OF DRAWING—No. 18 i aon sisi. 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Bee that your drawiny| *tating your present age and the date" Address Editor, Kvening” World's airmen’ de. all bears the same number and aigs| YOU were born (year, month, day). ie en 26 ath Re samnetiter Summer Drawing school, P. Box tures in the strip are drawn, print Number .18 in the L ml No drawing will be considered unless| 140, City Hall Station, New’ york |§ Py A Your completed rhyme must end| corner of the envelope or pockag c the statiatioe required.” PRINT your) Th Senpatone 4 he statistics required. PRIN your| The $10 award winning drewing | empetinens WHAT TO Do. Complete the rhyme in the accom: picture to fit your rhyme in the oe . cn “Tes Joe's “Bridge of Sighs”! | 4 Hooocaoaw HAW M- mmm Il: | HUNGARIAN MONEY STILL DECLINING, 'S NOW 400 CROWNS To OuR Doivar, AND OnE CROWN USED To RUN THE COUNTRY 1A HUNGAR Fos Soneues Hy re. 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