The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1921, Page 28

“Thank You” Meagre Comedy oun YoU WERE ArSNAPPY WORKER — cts ease ee TRIER TC a. 7, GUESS 1 BETTER GO IN AND RIDE” THAT PAINTER AGAIN =1 KINDA LET HIM KNow I'M IN 4 HURRY WELL , How's “H' JoB COMING ALONG ? T EXPECTED To FIND MY CAR ALL READY “T DRWE OUT: — wiat's TH! DELAY ? 1D GET A LOT MORE WORK DONE, ONLY 50 MANY PEOPLE DROP IN ;— CHEW "TH'RAG — — >—4 | ; ; i i é ! ——— BY CHARLES DARNTON NY Broadway uplift movement)accept them with a “thank you. that raises the salary of a/This strange individual and the} like products of | small-town clergyman _{s| comic secretary we: worthy of our moral support, and s0| vaudeville and did a great deal to there is something to be said for the| make the play impossible. spirit of the play hy Winchell Smith] Harry Davenport was earnest and and Tom Cushing produced last night] simpl> as the minister and gave dit- at the Longacre Theatre, if little for} nity to the performance. In the role the play itself, “Thank You” means|of the niece Edith King affected a well at least, and ft might do a great| peculiar accent that put charm out deal of good—in Connecticut. of the question, Donuld Foster was It was not surprising to find in|direct if crude as the youth from Dedham, Conn., a minister getting| New York. only $800 a year and anything else| William Post made the doctor the | the neighbors miyht bring in—little| >. st of the village types, though the) thank-yous, such as meat and vege-| Most infuential man tn the place was | tables with perchance a pie, but it/Tealized very wall by Alfred Kap- | waa a bit of an eys-opener to see|Péler. But the play as a whole was him housing a poor rJuce from Paris,| fF from sonvize-ng. whose gorgeous frocks would have acandalized any two-by-four com-| munity. Something wes bound to happen, and it did, but it was scarce- ly believable and only mildly enter- taining. We could sympathize with S50 You DIDNT the minister, who was compelled to “TAKE INCACEY AB get along on very little, for “Thank ‘ You” proved to be a meagre comedy. A Molina APER But knowing Winchell Smith to have a hand in the matter, we felt sure the reverend gentleman would not suffer in the end, even as one of us, for Mr. Smith may always be counted upon to be more than gen- erous. So wo did not worry when the | tightwads of the vestry board cut Mr. Lee's salary to $500. We could bear {t and grin as well, so complete was our faith in Mr. Smith's prodi- gality. It was heartening, too, t) hear a sympathetic first nighter burst into applause when the min- Iste, took a cigarette, At a still more antical moment a resourceful youth yom New York offered his flask| «when the niece regretted she had no fim for their afternoon tea. Al-| LATTLE MARY MIXUP though this passed with no violation MeN aed = — = —— —— Eitsceateeb iktbs a aexeaious) sSest THIS 18 Good AND STRONG _ ) you Must EACH LET printed in a nejghboring town. You| —IT QUGHT TS LAST TWO THE OTHER HAVE wouldn't believe it could happen in YEARS . Now “REMEMBER - ir HALF He TIME anything but a play, would you? And} it just goes to show how careful peo- ple in a play have to be, doesn’t it? But our trust in Mr. Smith re- mained .unshaken. Surely a gildod youth smitten with the niece from Paris gave promise of better times. It didn't matter that his awfully rich father put in an appearance and orgered him to keep away from the girl, ‘That was to be expected. All we had to do was wait for the father to change his mind, round on the affrighted: vestrymen and tell them what sort of Christians he considered them (enthusiastic applause), and} then say he would pay the minister's | salary. | Everything was now ready for the great transformation scene. Tho dingy old study became a pleture | KA TI N KA gallery glowing with color, there was ‘a butler to awe the natives, and tho| | SOME FRESH FELLOW rae comic secretary cf the vestry board| |BUTTED IN ON THE L'WONDER didn’t kgow what to make of it when| [WIRE AND WANTS informed—that’s the word—that the| |Jo COME AROUND To minister, was dressing for dinner, And, sure enough, down came Mr. Lee in evening clothes fit for a bish- op! Somehow Winchell Smithe had managed to get even a clergyman into a “dress sult” for his last act, As| for the niece, she was a glittering | apparition in silver that might easily have caused a fresh scandal. | The father who had told her to let| hie boy alone now begged her to} marry the lad and crowded steame tickets’‘on her, Everything was lovely and everybody proxperous. Even the viliage drunkard under- went a marvelous change, turning into a “household pet” who managed the donations that the minister now | made instead of being obliged to| He's NICE ? %” ITs FoR BOTH oF You— Es ) HE SAYS IF 1 GIVE Him My ADDRESS, HE'LL TooT HiS HORN WHE HE PASSES BY THIS 5~ AFTERNOON $5 Relat AN’ TLC “TELL: ou WHY ‘Sams Casey WAS ENGAGED TS MY WiFe GeroRE “IT MARR LA-LA— HE'S PROMISED To SToP AT OUR DOOR AN’ BLOW THE HORN _M I WONDER WHAT re . Welt <= Don'r Belipue WN’ Ben’ “To FRIENDLY WITH A FeELLER— WHo Proved HIMSELF TO BE SMARTER “THAN -Bupe Coun Hart aW- He sain IT WOULD) LAST TWO YEARS — so T’nu TAKE 1T THe FIRST TEAR- Es > an You Kin® J TAKE IT THE 3 SECOND ‘ — Or What's Left of It! RM BRINKER HOE Poor Fish! IND OF A CAR He AAS ? ame cf Eat talon oa About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY ME time ago, when the Equity \t0 tive « and, if business improv: was the centre of much more | ™uch mor than that Now comes an announcement that Nuleal pl ‘ Phe | " agitation than it is now, we sue: a neement tha a nmusical plece out of “The|yisten, Flo! i es gested here that actors might do well | YenderDie Daye. ar Beant Ne ep | Allyer Fax.” oa) The Buk Fox," | Here's’ Valentine's poem: Frag ee Dae me Sroheatre 0} stead) ‘ee » are to beland s hav ry in it. to take a gamble with managers dur-| booked in theatres which cannot at- | ori” ghouted the <4 Mr, Dudley, you can save my life, to kill the fatted calf. ing try ng tin and ke to pay high salaries, on a co- a fe tial vperative basis. They will play for a|*but let's get a story of my sugges-| ¢ eatnor. than: hold aut arbitrarily for | Hereentage of the ine ny Gate aee Hate pel aries 98 Renate diy She reads your column, {8 waiting} “on the corner in the c: ‘ that would swamp slipping | perg and James Lowe are enginecring | names of our ‘two plays, and if he to see A_race troupes. W¢ received several letters|this movement. Tt wily undoubted sit we'll beth be w.nner.” | s Bernard often runs but ua from actors which said, in substance, | &iV¥e @ lot of people a chance to enrr rod! nid Mr FAvarsham, |// YOu Wu print’a proposal from $4.) isha two ery away th Senate ora ina! enough to tide them over wh: aoe havent ghet of that eream |// she'll consent to be more than my| Leon Erfol of "s we were, but, just the same, we could | ca} profession al | at, other night, did an impromptu dane see where thousands of players would| Twenty-cight road shows closes ; A |1 swear I'll be her dartir that was a combination of the one be walking the streets this winter if| Week before last and their casts wer , Waa LOONEY New? nel” : atop, knee knock and family shimmy- (paler dumped onto Broadway. A little eo- | from Will Pa es # tale to the | wiggle they didn't co-operate with man-| yp! ation from Chane” niagara inigihg |éffect that Samu ldwyn has of-| rested on rounds of the agers in kecping troupes alive, These | pave thousands are now walking, showing | redy that once {a a while, even’ a weak- | ne brain can guess correctly. Now comes evidence that the uetors, or some of them, anyway, are willing to co-| when jobs are plentiful. But in time operate with managers who are up|iike these the manwwer and the actor Against it, to almost any extent that have got to work together or a lot of will give them a living and a prospect | woe will result is ar eet 8 nora Hughes, Ada Lewis, John Price Marie Callahan, Sunshine Carle Carlton, producer of . took Willlam Faversham to|u young lad | dinner’ recently with | ney n his cranium, Afte been served Carle p' fered the Theatre. It ls such a little thing that we're sure the Telephone Com- of improved conditions | In the first place, “Spring,” at the| pga? Princess, was on the ragged edge| “GQ. M., DEARIE,” SOON last week, owing to hot weather, It aries Dillingham has p. was in the shadow of the storehouse. earsal “Good Morning, Dearte," his The actors, realizing they would get new mus‘cal plece by Anne Caldwo!! A littie something for thelr work if | and Jerome Kern, with Louise Groo “Spring” continued, agreed to go|in the leading role. Mdward for “practically No salaries at directing. In the cast, heasldes M all,” accord ne to an announcement. |Groody, are Oscar Bhaw, 4 ‘Tis means they will get something Dixon, William Kent, Maurice, Leo- ced In ra. pany will jump at the chance to cor-| Afar 1a few extra berries. We're also| A SINGER WITH A SOUL. the Baptist sociable and con. Willi Hall, Peggy K dirls and others. Her's | | Wright," cam the Yanks will win,| | Atte a John Seanneli || RHYMED PROPOSALS, ) Valentine S., who lives on Classon FAVERSHAM WON'T SING. Avenue, Brooklyn, is having a tough i time winning the apple of his eye, named Flo. a deep-laid plot) she seems to think he’s joking when the Java had| he talks love, 1 t he} Valentine a and he isn't a: comic He seeks our aid om Carle | For I want Flo to be my wife. » Com. | chairs.—Wellsville Optic. During her ab- seneo her role Was sung by ols, the Natalie of the company. Wells appeared as Natalie. by the Bijou. Jessica Bombo.” >pt the troupes going and thus reduced the strea of unemployed to yn wi co eg team of unemployed | Orange the name of the Bryant Ex-| MME, LIPKOWSKA RETURNS, |),.¢ Biedercy \Omeh caren auc: vocate the abuse of co-operation by |sbange, fo Then OKS for the DOxt Om Lydia Lipkowska is back in the! tions. g doesn't give Mangere, Dor ero, we fe by |ehontha, dt moh time’ the Sima logeh a unae ORS wigan ‘ ve tbe nanagers, Nor are we for tne plan|monthe, during which Vme the, tim/cast of wEhe Merry Widow" after an| name, but we suspect It's Lizzie this week “Honors Are kven’* jeaves for Cleveland and Chicago, John Meehan is now featuring Don- | ‘d Gallagher oy | Whien Thursday night & a s ” © in “Short Sheets Make the Red Making “Willie's Seem Longer" with so mu eling) Prank “Why?” Harland and expression that il! those pres-| tor the cast of He stuck drew up their fect until they Asked if he was going to the game water and can't find the hols,” to-morrow, “What game Helen Broderick has been engaged | "8, Shubert for a role in | "Phi Phi.’ “The Night Cap” moved yesteriay from the 39th Street Theatre to A CASE OF IDENTITY UST south of Port Royal, 8, ¢ inland” route presents g! the Florida si yacht owner from the North. mud flats and shifting sand bars, rais- ing their tops to within a few inches of the surface of the water, restrict | heart: navigation to narrow, Winding caan- nels, known only to the initiated, skipper hired an old negro him through,” after assured by the ebery bank Vor a few minutes all then the little yacht slid gently up the slope of a subine bar—and stayed there. “You're a devil of a pilot!” stormed the skipper. every bank in the creek?" ‘So I does, boss, so I do! complacent reply. Harper's Magi > SLIGHTLY WORSE URING my forty-odd years on ne veteran commercial traveller, “1 have at has been added to Al Jolson’s ¢ A Jumaica girl wrote the Hippo- drom: for two seats to “Get Togetner” horse named after Barney A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. FOOLISHMENT (By Mazie McDiggie The goldfish in the bow! Swims round and round and round: | He never seems to sleep d the land » it does astound FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE slept \ greater part of one night in a mortar bed.""—Kansas City Btar, The Day’s Good Stories | THE WIND-UP. aminer asked one child: Sticky | mdian Empire?" e of dem | 66 RANKLEIGHT got a touring car recently,” | prob'ly you are going to say that you |""“Good gracious!” interrupted ver partic pated in?” | in it, Once when T was king | What are the products of our “Please, sir, India produces curries | new| his ey: said|@ vivi the first man. “Had it made after his own {doas, It was equipped with a collapsible table and chatrs,| green and wiggly. a small cooking range, and uns ‘Not much, He hadn't done more, hear a t it when his wife took a! n it was time to do the outdvors!| me up cleaning in it!”—~Houston Post, By Don Allen. TO BREW OR NOT TO BREW. HERE'S a dandy dandelion war | on out Bronx way. That |s, a state of hostilities has been de- clared by many husbands and wives over the ordinary inoffensive dande- tion plants, It seems that the peculiar weather | has brought out the plants by the millions, Scenting the lusclous salad so easily made from the tender sprouts and shoots of these plants, the wives started out Sunday to gather masses of the sucgulent green. Following Saturday's eqtfinoxial dem- jonstration, a large percentage of the ~ plants started to flower. Seeing this, |the husbands, anti ing a fine | chance to make some off-season dan- | delion wine, objected strenuously to | the harvesting of the sprout crop by | their better halves. ‘The women voted unanimously for | salad, The men were just as solidly | aligned on the side of the wine. The usual happened--in the ma- jority of the homes in the dandelion belt dandelion salad was a part_of the menu for Sunday's dinner, The | husbands are still smacking their lips over what might have been on the | table in place of the salad. | ALSO Low, JACK AND GAME. F all those who claim to have originated the yarn could be listed tle roster would read like a Who's Who in the Universe, Walter Lawrence, movie director, the one who's tellin® it “® well-known actor strolled into the Lambs’ Club one night,” mused Lawrence. “Hoe had just come from witneseing anotheft widely known but, by him, disliked star In a performance of King ir. Poe “Slow was Bill as the King some one asked. “Pl tell you,’ answered the star “Bill played the King just as if he was | afraid some one else was going to | play the Ace.” & |NOT LIKE THIS IN THE OLDEN | DAYS. | JAWN J, M'GRAW, just now bask- ing in the violet-rays of his seventh National League bunt- ing, prides himself in his membership in the exclusive Free Setters Club ia Cincinnati. Back about the time when the Con- stitution had just reached its fifth | milestone in the amendment race, the | Free Setters were some live bunch. |"Phe motto of the club was “Two per | cent. serious and the balance fun.” When even the drinking water in |Old Cincy had foam on it, the Free ‘Setters met at haphazard times and |the mystic word “Front,” if uttered | by a member, called for the utterer | “buying” for the assembled guests. Although that which the word “Front” brought forth in steins hes long since ceased to flow, the fifty members of the Free Setters still re- member. Recently McGraw was tanning with a couple of Cincinnatians, both Free Setters. He spoke of @ certain news item and inadvertently sald; “I saw that on the front page.” The other two gazed about quickly for the bar, sighed and McGraw paid his forfeit in nut fudge sundaes. POOR FISH! alcoholic McSwiney by the lack of both Mquor and the price, two prime requisites nowadays, rae | A" a school examination the ex- I J ‘sic been forced to do an The unhappy infant began nervous-|he was on the brink of the deep, ly to reel off the list she had got by|dark abyss. His nerves wofe shaky. | Across his vision occasionally drifted +’ ¢ and pepper and rice and citron and| Something that never existed. Now chillis and chutney, and—and—and—|it was a weird, uncanny thing with seven le#s and vermillon spot, which aid the examiner, im-| faded and melted away into something hat comes after all) indescribably purple and scaty, It started to rain. He shook him- self a bit and wandered into the first sl | g, Well you tell her what comes atier | oor that yawned before him. He Bet) thay” - didn't know it, but he was makin, sp Please, sis, Indla-gestion,"—London | his frst vielt to the Aquarium, . Von ace [Tit Bits | Unbelievingly he gazed about him. ————__ He jumped, startled at the rauco | us echne JUST LIKE A WOMAN. | hark of @ playful sea-lon, He rubbed The things still passed in slithery review. Hoe turned around. ‘he long, eel-like creature |did a fadeout. Its place was t&ken jby something short and pudgy and a| In the office of the institution a stocked with things to eat,| Cuckoo clock started calling out the ind a little shelf of books, and a col-| hour of noon, At the third bird-calj ble plano, and a folding bed,| the nervous one hunted up a ° Hyon | man Pp & police e| “It's tough to see all them tht night wa | oth n, “EN bet he simply and know they ain't real,” Mee tered to copper, “but when you | paging you, its time to ,oeck me up, officer! Lock He got bis wish, . aiquit. I