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

| Yearn nothing.—Jeff."” About ‘Plays EN-AMI, under the manage- ment of Arthur Hopkins, will begin an engagement at the Plymouth Theatre on Tuesday of next week’ in “The Idle Inn,” by Peretz Hirshbein. The actor appeared in this play in Yiddish at the Jewish Art Theatre two seasons ago and at- tracted much favorable comment, At the Plymouth the play will be in three acts. Prominent in ‘the sup- porting cast will be Eva MacDonald, Mary Shaw, Joanna Roos, Hubert Druce, Whitford Kane and Edwerd G. Robinson, Marjorie Rambeau leaves the Plymouth after this week for an engagement in Chicago. JUST A MISTAKE, Avery Hopwood tells of a man mo- toring in France who stopped at a Hittle inn for breakfast. He ordered | coffee of a waiter who spoke English. | Tasting the beverage, the man frowned and said: “There's something queer about this | ‘coffee. It has a sort of cocoa taste.” ‘The waiter smelled the liquid; tasted m, and replied: - | “I'm sorry, sir, but by mistake 1) Mave brought you tea.” STOCK FOR MANHATTAN. —- Manhattan Opera House is to hay @ stock company during the holid: Three performances of “Little Red Ridinghood” will be given the mornings of the first half of Christmas week and three of “Cin- derella” the other three mornings. “Uncle Tom's Cabin" will be the af- ternoon and night bill ali through the week. After Christmas week the bills will be changed. | HOUDINI IN VAUDEVILLE. After two years in films, during which time he tried his darndest to break his neck in death-defying stunts, Harry Houdint is to return to Vaudeville. He will open at Keith's, Boston, on Dec. 19, with New York to follow soon after. This time he wil permit himself to be bound and put upside down in a big bottle of water. | NUTT’S DOPE. Jefferson Shrewsbury Nutt, special correspondent of this column, has given us a hot tip on a good story. From Bogash, O., he writes as fol- jows: “Dear Dud—I and the wife got a tip last night that Ireland has at last agreed to let England be free, provid- ing she continues to recognize Lloyd George as King of Scotland and Em- peror of the Indians. This seoms in:- portant, so why not send I and her over to Paris to find out the full par- tieulars? We could scoop the whole country for you, as we've got kin over there who must know all about it. While bending over to pick up A horseshoe for good luck here to-day Mayor Pinisston was butted by a goat and got mad because a lot of ladies laughed. Much excitement, but could BY WAY OF DIVERSION. Jist took at this big class to day—they's ‘most a dozen here. 1 know Miss Jones, the teacher, thinks it’s pretty doggone quecr that all these kids is showin’ up. Dut jist ‘tween you an’ me, the gang wus told this church has ‘vanged to have a Chris’mus tree. "Course Archie Brown an’ Willie Blake ull git inonthetree. They “always come to Sunday school— they got a cineh, you sce, Lut Berawney, Fatty, Pete an’ Squat re graftin'—that T know. If Rev'rend Pitts can't sce their game he must be awful slow Now, me an’ Jim an’ Skeeter's got a right to be on hand, but fist why some is here I guess Miss Jones can’t understand, Us three's got folks in this here Church, but others ain't got none. If they git presunts from the tree this church ull sure git skun, OUTCLASSED. ‘Once upon a time there wee a fish- exyman who took pride in telling big sturies. People didn't believe his tales znd would say so, but he kept right on telling them. One day he died and went below, but even there he con- tinued to tell. fish stories, Once, while telling his biggest lie, he was scoffed at by a certain man. The fisherman, undaunted, told a couple of other the man continued to scoff. Som: By BIDE DUDLEY [ RHYMED PROPOSALS Well, well! The giris have begun to apply in pairs for mates. A just in is signed “I. while it teame up “us” has the ring of sincerity in it. it, Boys, and ponder; oe eS COURIC JOCMAWS< and ! Players M. Pay close attention, all you men And listen to our plea. We are two little lonesome gii!s. In love we'd like to be. We're looking for two lovers who Are handsome, brave and truc; One for each to treat us as The fairy princes do. Now if you'd care to mect us And are just what we want. We'll send you our addresses. Oh, nothing will us daunt We're very sure, indeed, that you Will fall in love with us, "Cause we're so sweet and cute and such That we know you must t cowed, the fisherman turned to Satan and asked who the scoffer was. “That fellow?" came from old N , he’s from Winsted, Conn.” with @ scream of chagrin the fisherman dived into a lake of molten HE'D TAKE A CHANCE. Frank Kintzing was standing in front of a theatre where a fatiure was striving to keep alive, recently, when a mendicant who knew of him ap- Proached and asked for a job. "I haven't anything to offer you,” replied the manager. “Say, boss,” the other whispered, “TT go in an be one of the audience eum Batty cents.” pe Barriccele is to take a dt {ato vaudeville. P ‘The new Ohio Theatre, Cleveland, was opened yesterday with Shubert vaudeville. Muriel Stryker of “The Midnight Brot 2 has to be gilded Bightly unttl 100) e a cousin of John Golden. ‘Joseph P. Bickerton jr. ie now coun- sel for the Treasurers’ Club, succeed- the late A. L. Jacobs. 1 mistletoe is to be used in “A Bill of Divorcement” during the holi- days, and the theatre's scrubwoman _Maesn't like the idea. Muriel Harrison, who won a beauty Pe in Philadelphia, has joined “Good Morning, Dearie,” com- ey. Albee, go of the Keith cir- has agreed to direct a benefit ioe He Of 0. waliding fund at the jan. London, of Frances Starr, John Craig of “Ambush, niision OF 8 col pera fle er and United States is being left behind in| Canadians complain of| ar the duties which force them to buy| the Chinese deplore the| Kingston will ithe eae Ne organized | before the end of the year. neh oar oBov! Some Voice — HES GONE GONE AT LAST, Dear ! WeLl, Wert. How Muct THE BABY Looks AIKE. HIS UNCLE B2RAa- SHH — L MUST SHOW You THE SWELL LITTLE PRESENT 1 GoT KATINKA FoR | CHRISTMAS * =G09ST Dil CEUGIUNDC Mild TSUN You KNow " “YW KEEP IT 100KING noe} Read | MY: BARS RING LoupesT LiL VEeT- HE mMuST SEVEN STATES “Loud; TALKERS BOILER FACTORY ‘ GENERALLY AN’ So 8 RDIE DARE GeT ME ANY WRIST WATCH- BRACELET — BROOCH - BAR PIN — RING — NECKLACE — EAR RINGS — LAVALLIER- y's 5 FUNIY How CARELESS L CAN Be SCRATCH ON ONE OF MY FRONT ve NDEGS writ His QuFF BUTTON! ANDY PUT EVER NOTICE A IGNORANT PERSON (i) ini¢ i z: a aatilamathtai aanaaaad Sic "Em, Ed! J Now LooKA at Dust Twat II. IN Lizzie KieKs ue! ILL Ger EVE RY SPECK OF (IT ON Tulcar t e /LOOK OUT JOE — LOOK ouT ! You'RE DROPPING CIGAR \ ASHES ON TH FLOOR tt NEEDNT SHOUT THERE - THERE _ Don*> cry — I DoWr THINK YOu 190K LIKE Your UNCLE EKR4_ Cope, 1921 (1. ¥. Eve. Werld) By Press Pub. Co. MAYBE THe Lady Just SAID THAT TO BE MEAN WHERE ARE You) GOING, HUGO ? You KNOW THAT 1 HAVE ENOUGH CHEAP JOOLERY To LAST ME TH OF MY LiFe ge IM GONNA SEE | \F THERE'S ANY CHANCE To GET My MONEY President of the Hippodrome Employ- | ees’ Association, a benevolent organi- zation. Augustus Barratt has returned from He will write the music for a new piece to be produced by John Murray Anderson in January. | Permanent waving, according 0 Marcelle D'Arville, comes under the head of overhead expenses, thought you might like to know. With the return to town to-night who appears at t! Montauk, Brooklyn, David Belasc will have all his stars playing Greater New York. Having been given a wildcat A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. knocked ‘off of eac! FOOLISHMENT. Theve was a young woman named Bess, Who struck her old dad for a dress At first he said “No.” But she carried on so. That after a while he yelled “Yes!” FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “A silver “Wee it a nice one’ “TAKE AN ;Canadian Tells How Nearest) ™ereia! Intelligence Service of Can- office,” admit: of Ilinois, fo. me ator and rev Just S. Pausette, Pousette does Neighbor and Tr: ot United States Is System-| atically Reaching Export Business All Over|* the World. ade Rivallis at te Be , but he does aba rine the| Out oes which our nearest neighbor and nmercial rival is doing. The Commerce town or city and functions, “Civic affai tance to every | difference is inexcu: message to the boys | political affairs and fit yourselves to inning in 1894, when | take part in them." by some Western admirers, Marshal Foch will be invited to see “The Wild | at,” John Cort’s Spanish musical comedy, to-morrow night. | al Intelligence » Department of T. » is the oldest of its kind in _ By Roger Batchelder. very humble be utbreak of the officers in var! in telling another 8 of the empi been opened 4 jexport trade. ea of the American manu- facturer who sends pink ribbon when! sioner must be South Americans are answer intelli - xently questions rega and that orders shipped and Americans living \say that our exporters are not aggres- “Wihat did you give the’ baby when sive, he was christened?’ > repel ls of such commo- 8, SO that they may possibilities of a market stand the difficulties which they must | overcome in competition, understand the intricacies of ex- change, details concerning packing the preparation of One agency |porters must contend, “Was itt Say, it te ‘Biltmore ‘ype of thé efforts of other coun- ” tries to -promote trade,:i# the Com- tance, and which is end shipping, | documents and the financing of ex- ports.” TICS,” URGES “J. | “I'm just as e veeaintin fee poli- ties as I was when [ first ran for Hamilton Lewis United States Sen- ently defeated candidate the Governorship of his State ‘Every boy and girl to-day should to understand how his or her ate Government he said at the Biltmore. | are of such vast impor- one that a or in- and girl “AS OTHERS SEE us.” ‘It seems to me that the era of world extravagance thas passed and that even New York is set- tling down to a more serious mode of living,” said M. B, Bloom of London, who is at the Astor. “I notice that the r of a few years ago has stopped: whether or not nity ss due nnot pro ion or not, To This is the’ or 1, however, w a big propos! pre one can put dare put such fabulous sums in an enterprise of that kind. hasn't ithe sporting blood of the an in commercial affairs; y what the rei before taking a chance. Your great cosmopolitan popula- tion, the mingling of many houses are still dark, and without the crippled almost recove red from the disa FARTHEST FROM HOME, if for a@ Day or who is farthest from home Marshall, who is at the His home town, | hau, is nearly 6,000 miles from Broad- section has INTEREST neha POLI- to- a sort of guimbling spi Be, Sis caccen Hono- as, Pennsylvania. your wonderful way. IT WON'T COST ‘MucH THIS| enact pyeesasy * FAULT OF THE FISHES. a dinner, Uncle Joe ‘annon referred to the ability o youngster tm finding | xcuse, and told the following | story as an illustration: y afternoon the minister in a small town was slowly wending his way to @ Sabbath school in th country when in passing a mill creek ‘he suddenly came upon little Jimmy Johnson seated beneath a shady tre with a fishing rod tn his hand. exclaimed the a horrific d expression, * }amazed to see you York for the New "year's celebracion | t's my | will the ol tudy | as in former years. announcements from | price per person will be $10, and some Yew Yorkers for a Day or Two” atch 1921 fade aw |paniment of food and muste, for $5, well-known cabaret, Apparently willing to be the ecene of an encounter between Vox Popull and Izzy Einstein's cohorts, \that its party | ‘bring your own’ bi , to the accom- iotous spending has announced will the “strictly on a} is this year.” . place in the BAY STATE RECOVERING FROM n, whether it be humanitarian or commer Now York does big things in a big way, and there is something thrilling about your methods of ‘putting something across,’ ‘Take your cinema theatres here, for in- None elsewhere in the world which can compare with ‘them. Our London houses aro small and insignificant in com- parison, for no Englishman would husetts is just worst storm: F H. Frazer of Bost m at the ‘MeAinin | | tor. jie ice | fishes done that third of the fine trees | hooked on the Sanbath “What have they done responded Jimmy. \ Thas'g what 4 storm ruined in Worcester County, lights, telephone and telegraph out of ‘dusiness temporarily and practically isolated some towns from the outside ‘Much of the damage to trees! Le put the electric ‘worms on Sunday. done,”’—Philadelphia || Screenings ||| By DON ALLEN. | | NOW LUCIA'S A RUG. Lucia, the Moness who suffered a temperamental oufburst during the | filming of “Theodora” and tried to do |a leonine shimmy, but couldn't find |a human partner, isn’t dancing any | more. In fact, she isn't doing any | thing at all that real, live Mr. or Mrs, | Lions do; for she’s joine@ the colony of good lions and is now just a rug. Now the only chance Lucia has for shimmying is when one of Rita Joii- vet's servants hangs the skin on the clothesline and shakes the dust out of | her. CLEAN, ANYWAY. One sits through Selznick’s “Love Is an Awful Thing,” starring Owen Moore, and notes that almost cvery- thing ‘screenable is included in the hundreds upon hundreds of scenes spread out on the screen, Just when one makes up hts mind that about everything possib's ‘has Heen shown, t action switches to a Chinese laundry “Why the laundry?" asked a pres te swered a sub-dire put in to make the film nie: an an, su it would pass t i True or not, the Chinese still in the film, SOME THRILL. Willan: Farnum would, to the casual Thinker of Thinks, seem to he thriil ‘oof. Gosh! There didn't scom to a thrill in all thrilldom that could truffle the undulations in his gray- nent wavelets. Thinker of Think blacis pe | But tt wrong other day, and it ¢ noted screen. play tvelled half, Vie slope and rete ew Yorks Bill nasn’t taken any of his qu tet of automobiles out of camphor | since his return and so, wishing to hurry to the William Fox office, jumped into a subway train ‘That's where he got the thrill. He niys ho never knew every one in New York used the subways at one tim: { CUT BACKS. m the chorus to the screen is about the swiftest journey into the heights of stardom. If you doubt it, ask Billie Dove. Billy is popular name in R-C's “At the Stage Door There are | Billie Dove, Billy Quirk, Billy Tuers, Hilly Meyerhoff and Billy Collier ir. So far, No person named Goat has butted’ into the films. ah Frank Dazey, who has just joinca Selznick as clate scenario editor, is the author of “Shadows of the in which Conway Tearfe will shortly be presented, am J. Ferguson, widely known ee actor, fresh from acting in indred of the Dust,” will be in the supporting cast of Madge Evans in “On the Banks of the Wabash.”” Goldwyn Graphics, short, crisp little films of vital interest and beautiful photography, have made a great hit. ‘Thomas H. Ince, big producer, says motion pictures must ‘be mede to satisfy the public. He has also de- clared for more real stories and less “movies.” William Collier jr. was stabbed slightly in the right hand during a fight in an R-C picture recently. It's lucky the scratch wasn't on his face, as Willie jr. has to look pretty in the rest of the film. e, too, Have You Heard! This One? By SID GREENE == HEY tad known each other Katie had married weil, her husband had been successful, m a bundle of money, built a large residence. garage, &c.; in fact, he made so much money the: in to buy a few of the ters.” Katie was showing her girlhood pal, Dora, through the palatial this picture, Dora. wonderful old oil painti $20,000 and is called Last Supper With H by iful piecs