The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1921, Page 24

a | aA Oo women stepped up to the! ‘box office of a Broadway vaude: ville theatre yesterday and one faked for four seats to last night's performance. The other showed sur- ow're not buying tickets for to-|received. Now let's see how game fright, are you?” she asked, Ben is. He wrote us for a loving} “Why, yes,” said the first. wife, and that’s just what Helen “But this is Sunday. I won't go to & show on Sunday.” “Maybe you wouldn't down in Kan- gas where you live, Mary, but you| will in New York.” “Well, I just won't. I'm a church member and I won't go to theatres om Sunday.” ‘The other laughed. will,” she said. *T vow I won't.” “Oh, yes, you About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY become Mrs, Ben Potars. At least, 60 we would infer from her rhyme just wants to be, RHYMED PROPOSALS Helen of the Bronx has a desire to The rhyme: Ben is just the boy for me. Won't he try to come and see What a girl he's sure to get? Then he'll never need to fret. I'm as lonesome as can be For a man to cuddle me. Ben, oh Ben, make me your wife, TU be true to you for life. | MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1921 J HEY BLANCHE WHERE'D Y'PUT ALL MY Woo SOCKS ? 4 “Yes, you will, dear.” om | The Kansas woman was mad. e a put her hands on her hips and said: WATCH DEM LADS STRUT! ; “Helen, Till be d—d if I'll go to @| Under the direction of Joe Canoly, ty show on Sunday a black “Mutt and Jeff" troupe is to} a 2 With that she stalked out, followed | pigy two weeks at the Lafayette| z by the woman with the tickets. Theatre, beginning Christmas Day.| i a Joo says he expects to make a for- Y 1 tune out of the venture, but we think! 4 There DIFFERENT his statement is somewhat colored. | | ior Press Pus Co Mi.EVE WoRLd & y; . @ peck. ‘Possum, friend, es mighty ; "las made while discussing an aged rye ra wera Who died and left oodles of money. ta Skip Center, N. J., which has been a quiet little place heretofore, now) has a lawyer. DE COURVILLE HERE. Alfred De Courville, the London producer, is in New York and is pre- paring to stage his musical show, “ping ‘and Needles,” here. He has sent out a call for chorus girls only, indicating that he intends to bring his London principals over. COULDN'T AFFORD IT. The John D. Rockefeller jr. family was at the seashore one time, ac- cording to a story we heard yester-| ay, where they occupied a very mod- \ est cottage. One day a boy who lived) nearby said to the young son of the! Rockefellers: “Why don’t you folks have a fine big home, instead of that little one?" “Say,” came from young Rocke- feller, “who d’ye think we are—the Vanderbiits?” HOW ABOUT THIS? ‘A hat pin salesman sought Miss Hels. Said he: “This pin speaks for itself.” Said she: “Presuming I wore that— Would it be talking through my hat?” . DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT. te Spingold was ‘heard asking Jast night: “Do you think Prohibition will ever come back?” A WIRELESS CONCERT. ‘A novel concert for Christmas Day 48 being arranged. On that day, if the ‘wireless telephone operators on the ships at sea will’tune their instru- ments properly they will be enter- tained by singing and monologues de- Hvered py Keith vaudeville players through the Westinghouse stations in ‘Newark and Pittsburgh. While the concert is meant primarily for those @n ships, others who have wireless telephones may “pick it up” if they try. “TAFFY” FOR LIONEL. Lionel Atwill of “The Grand Duke" | fn yery proud of a letter he received | yesterday from Feodor Chaliapin, the Tiussian passo. ‘The singer, having seen the actor's performance, wrote iim saying he was as much of a Grand Duke as any man he (Chaliapin) had ever met who worked at the Grand ‘Duke business. BY WAY OF DIVERSION. | Chris'mus day es almos’ heah; | Ah kin hahdly wait tell Ah sees | dat tuhkey meat steamin’ on ma + plate. Otheh folks kin hab de gifte. Bet yoh life dey kin. Gib | dis dahkey eatin’, friend, ef yoda | 2 ace him grin. Ah done got him fn de coop—dat dah tuhkéy bird. He des look 80 solemn-lak, guess de news he’s heard. Ah done | ehahpened up de axe fo’ dat gobblah’s neck. Cranberries? My lan’, Ah s'pose Ah done got sweet, but when Chrismus come eroun’ gimme tuhkey meat. Rich (THE BIG ‘LITTLE FAMILY DAWGONIT — AN' XMAS COMIN ‘TLL HAVE Te MAKE OUT A MaRy, ust! Bic HOLE IN YOUR STECKING_ SRON “RIGHT Bac AND CHANCE some big doin’s to-night after the K im —— {IM GONNA BuY ME“ONE OF “THOSE “THICK , FU22Y, SCARFS. LIKE. Casey's! CAUGHT COLD RIDING IN “Ty'car | WITH “Har LIGHT CoAT — 1 DON'T CARE IF “THIS FUR LINED DOES —— DRAWER ~ WHERE THEY BELONG! Now LET Me. SEE -WHo e15e MUST Y'CAN STICK (TIN MY CLOSET IF N6oT " LOOK AT NONE OF THE . BUNDLES IN Y'PROMISE. HE'S LIABLE ‘To CATCH You AWIYou SLY DEAR - MAKING OUT WourR “KMAS LIST” Teneo MY STOCKIN’ INSIDE SMELL LIKE A “TON OF MOTH Balts! oLD Meaning WARM! AN AT TAKES .TH’ WHOLE * BANK: It Must Have Been Reversible ! | ©) i131 CNY Eve Woemay Peess FU S.6r THeee S 4 HOLE ON THE OTHER KM > BRINKE RACE Oh, Well, It Surprised Somebody! ELSE We WANTS .— ao BRING Tun a8 ailowed on the streets after 6 o'clock. and with such competition it is no relates, “and will demonstrate the Screenings By DON ALLEN, JES’ HINTIN’. Harry Pollard, directing the “Leather Pusher” stories, stood at t receiving end of a Christmas pack- age yesterday. The box, until yard after ya red ribbon had been unwound «od holly-berries spattered all over the studio floor, was a mystery. Harry just glowed with pride as he neared the gift. Then he opened it “It” was a set of boxing gloves. ‘Tied to “it” was a note from the cast begging Pollard to use the gloves when he direeted the ring scenes. He says he will take the hint. CATS IS CATS. ‘They were casting for cats ai the New York studio of William Fox re- cently. Director Harry Millarde suddenly craved three husky alley roan complete the cast of a blg | Although the property m the neighborhood for hou jdidn't even locate a kitten. tney confided to a boy that ir would show up at the studio with a cat that he could trade it for a nice shiny half-dollar. All the figure keys on writer are bent, or we could tell you this type- just how many cats, chaperoned Small boys, showed up. Anyway, Millarde got all the cats he wanted, and then some. by A YOUNG VILLAIN. Bruce Guerin is a finished vil that is, he isn’t exactly “finislied,” he's just started, but he's a gvod lit- tle villain, at that. Bruce is now appearing in ingham’s “The Man Who and will be one of the o players in that big feature. Bruce felieves in living his ter, and as a result demanded lain’s costume of riding breeches, | boots and ferocious black mou jos, Unlike a villain, he didn’t grind | his teeth and hiss when the director | refused his request. Bruce just went | over in a corner, drew down the vor- | ners of his mouth and cried. For Bruce, the villain, ir Nttle chap, just ha’-past-two. | But he's some villain, at ti Ask dad—he knows. | MIGHT BOOMERANG. John Emerson and Anita Luvs, billed by Associated First National las the “best known scenario writers,” say that in “Red Hot Romance” they have satired romantic melodrama, “We think we have succeeded in lour satire and have not reached tha purlesque stage,” say the writers. “Red Hot Romance,” containing as lit does everything a romantic film \should have, may, mind you, we say “may,” turn out to be a successful raight” film instead of pure Things have been known to jout thuswise, OH, SHUSH! Herbert Rawlinson is in again. ‘Thia time he jimmies his way into thie column by remark he is said to have Froth- purchase furlined beeveedees for Hottentots. “What a wilful waste!” ° remarked show, U (‘Margalo Gillmore has been engaged by the Theatre Guild for a role in Andreyev’s comedy, “He Who Gets | Slapped,” due at the Garrick next Month. ' man, keep yoh pile ob gold. Keep it, sah—yo’ heahf Mistah Tuhkey in de coop-—Chris'mus day es neah. best methods of choosing sites, the way to test road materials and the effect of traffic on pavements and sub- grades,” oe @ A FARTHEST FROM HOME, easy matter to get circulation. I know, because I own one of the news- Our train left at 9, and we had all manner of experiences in catching tt. We left, but without the dining car | papers myself. None of the paper: conductor, who had been detained, | has a circulation of more than 20,000.” and we had nothing to eat for twenty an hours on the heavily guarded train.| BRITAIN'S WAR someone. uipped Bert, “What a wis “Ne, Ain't press agents grand” ful will. DAUGHTER SCREEN SPOTS permit,” i meson Herbert Corthell is to PROBABLY MISINFORMED. | Keith vaudeville ‘soun in a eue-act | Utter Poverty of a|toom, One American woman whom |S0 you can understand how good old STILL HEART-FREE. The “New Yorker For a Day or| We heard a certain movie siar im a one-as overty of Masses or the |New York looks to us now | aveo™ women in a ONO} ar u com entitled “ ove ne ad a TS, melia eCudden, rea | je. ot on H ‘Two i phonograph par-| musical edy entitled “I Li My A ie we knew there had a house and four r ato Mrs, Amelia McCudd Great | 7'wo” who is farthest from home to- |make a dandy specch during a person Jor Saturday were hearing a new rec-| Wife.” He has left off, “But, oh, People in Far East Make|servants and her total expenses were e 2 Britain's war mother, whose son | day ts J. A. M. Johnson, who is at the | al appearance recently. We wondered i ‘ord, When the tune was finished one| you kid!” i $42 a month. THE STRAPHANGERS' UTOPIA. | was credited with the distruction | Pennsylvania, His home town, Hono-|where he got the snappy talk. Hide i ‘asked the other who wrote it Fdmund Breese, leading mun with| Sad Impression on Americati| ,,"I" India the poverty is even Wort wPhS gunrda and conductors on | of fifty-seven German war planes, |lulu, (9 over 6,500 miles from Brogd-|Dudiey has just called across this ' ie thick { wae Washington Irving | aa Claire in “Bluebeard's, Bighth T 1 Chi than in China. A good part of the New York's publi and who attended the ceremonte, | way. page and told us. Good boy, Bide. of Berlin,” came the reply. | Wife,” is co-author with Anna Steese raveller— ese. sr | people wear only a loin cloth, and the appear to be os of the burial of our Unknown Sol ——S— “The Rosary,” is being groomed for P ete inese, POOTeS! | Pepe werage of 8 cents a day’ en-| tiene - | ier on Armistice Day, has left the | KNEW HIS LIMITATIONS. an early release by First National | | Richardson of the film “A Man's ¢ . Ww L., Gossip. CN ee i ane of All, Wear the Wide. |sbles ihe laborer to qupport his fam-/ Haynes, who, is at the MeAipin Mcalpin and will be home ‘by “ KNEW a chap,” said an artist, |, Constance Talmadge’s neat roinise eette fox trot contest r oe y B em » “but to one who ha ived in Spain rie 2) e " has been ten’ ively called “Divorce.” Wunice Burnham, Mary King, Jane| net at the Teraee Garden Dance} Smile, RY AED OED oo SUR oware Al | arte sisitnae is ena ort canine But as she left, a story came telling of some of his youth- | “Ton Chaney, E. K. Lincoln, Dorathy Hing and Curtyne ‘Engler will be in| Palace to-morrow night. In a com- ait; he has at least seven servants) condescension und , occasionally gut “about her daughter, | Miss | 4, Tae jepreriencas, 1 che Lede | waters and Edgar Horton support y: Petition of this kin in his house, An express agent there,| out-and-out rudeness. Madrid and Mary, a charming girl of eighteen } : : | Hope Hampton, the star delightful, a the lady leads whose wife would normally do her e ra an 8 charming girl of elghteen |and when opportunity offered he|/1°Pn, Hip te The first act of “The Mountain | th Man” will be given at the Hotel As-|tiing tle in this life.” ver” ee Tyentay Stigrnpce, Dec. 27, for pass Rag re » Ine, Sercelias, the ‘Hippodrome clown,| qi, MOQUGNT FOR TO-DAY. By Roger Batchelder. The utter poverty of the great masses of people in the Far East was the striking impression gained by would make a little money to keep him going by decorating the walls of | houses with rural scenes, highly col- ored in glaring tints, as if nature had turned’ color-blind, ‘There were al- only paid for Mrs. Mc- Cudden's passage, and Mary was inconsolable at the thought of be- ing parted from her mother, But own housework, had nine of them to help out. “The Nile Valley of Psypt was a revelation after the poverty of the traMic and crowded street cars, and yet the conductors on the cars are models of courtesy and as anee, When a wo be “Baby Peggy” Mongomery, whiose name is three times as long as sho } will be one of the supporting in Marshal! Neilan’s “Penrod” | Barcelona are cities with heavy | : | Two weeks more and tt a . ne Hae tivel: 2p an hen we'al | ity, | & Ri eyed 3 01 siptén came hae 5 Maile foe ipene” tears |e break ‘em, Jia trip around the world. He is|spects. There is plenty of wealth In| weat and waits A rere nen tEa Young woman as Miss Mary de- [resented as standing up to thelr ih Me tine role, Boney te: fast Laie, ‘hubert vaudeville lost thelr tamoun ROGLIANM ENT now at the Astor, with his family. |Egypt. before giving th? signal to go | served a trip to the States, He | MUAY Mas you always put your cows| Joseph M. ee eneaine mn ariin camel in a train smash. Why not) wha bog ticod. ony “In Chine,” he said to-day, “hal(|_“We landed in Yokohama on the | ahead. He always we'rs a cordial pled Lee mele i Pay Tee expen: in the water?” some one asked. Talmadge in “The Duchess De Laue ear AS OEE | fl as ea the population apparently has no|Fourtn of July, ant found the Ammer. | emite, and Spe hls hat to.erriving See a eaed ine “Aierican | ‘Well,’ confessed the artist, ‘you| seals.” You pronounce it, we can‘! «Louise Grood “Good j € burning dec RASA GA ane Mind. tea ations a) . and departing passengers.” ; . see I have never learned to paint) Up t year ago M Bc - I 6) “ ct i ath there. iss Mary hi ‘ pain p> to a year ago Myrin Boniilus Dearie,” has written Santa Claus aak- | P|tremendous three-day celebration sane youth over there aise Mary baa | hoofs.’ "Harper's Magazine. was wondering just how they made It happened down Near Little Neck Said he: “Oh, let The darn thing burn, Hundreds of boats in the harbor were decorated with American flags and illuminated at night with lanterns. Several huge barges in the harbor were the base of the most wonderful on the sidewalks, using a rock for a pillow, and many have similar make- shift homes of one sort or another. Yet the Chines are the most con- the movies. Now she knows She's been in six inside of twelve months. ‘William Russell came on from Los Angeles to spend Xmas and some loose change. Now he says he likes We for a doll. ~ As a New Year's resolution Dorothy TMortimer of “Just Married” | to actresses left for England she confided that oe she was still hear BUSINESS RELATIONS. . WISH you would send some one else to talk with this man INTRICATE CHINESE JOURNAL- ISM. ce. ' Mana g editors o Ne York . apaging editors of New yon CHICAGO IS EXCITED. newspapers have plenty of difficulties, sf} infertors, including husbands and 2 . r) . tented Jot of people I ever saw; they | fi ‘ks’ displ ev w., Ma ¢ hia 3 Phica out this deal,” “ whis decbs s saw: they fireworks’ display Lever saw., Many| but they are trivial compared with | William Henderson of Chicago, who about this deal,” said the head | > won't © MM Sobertesn and ' Winitrea He * insured "are always smiling and begging for a|bainds played Amerioan tunes, and it | those which the editor of a| ia >mmodore, tells us that his|sslesman to the President. gam Fork to mush Be'won't qa bak Shave been angemed for roles ip ‘om stem to stern jchance *to do anythiny for the}seamed as though we were at home] Peking ney cording tolc all fussed up over the plans| “What's the idea? This ts an im-| Biythe Daly, daughte: | Arnold Reicin waverahen'a tovival of The i traveller and thereby earn a few) instead of in a foreign country |Gernyn C, Secretary of the for the Thirteenth National Good| portant matter and you are supposed | paly, plays opposite Er) Truex | waw Man: | FROM THE CHESTNUT TEs, [PEE ectinn supply of servants ween eae nee martial law | Ministry who is at the|1 , which will be held in| to take care of it.” ttle, but Oh My pi) saa eed ge! smarty. - anu Tare y ervants|wher we arrived, and we had a dif- | Pennsylvania | the Coliseum in January, | “1 know, but it will be terribly em-| “Rely, y's Fables are pl y yy refoot idiot, you|there makes it possible for one to|ficult time escaping from the city. A| “It is a hard job,” Mr. Lunn de-| ‘The United States Bureau of Pub-| barrassing to both of us. You see, fee ee Davies. 91803 oe, @ year at the New Amster- standin’ on a red-hot coal.’ atre the company will have “Which foot, mammyt™ Rave. 6, heute ned 8 whole, retinas attached for half the price of @ hotel between the riot was in progress Me Roads will have a@ mammoth ex- Arabs and the Jews and no one was, ‘hibit, 2,000 square feet,” he| present this man is the former husband of my wife."—Detrott Free Press. clared. ‘There are seventy news. Loapene tm the city of a million people, | form,” quiPsa film fan, Really, now reely? tall t \a bY}